Business mashups

Rapidly assemble and deploy composite applications to support business agility.

IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 8 software makes it easier to integrate line-of business (LOB) solutions and data into new types of applications, called business mashups or composite applications. Through business mashups, the end users can use multiple applications - or components - which are aggregated on their familiar Lotus Notes desktop. Components can include Notes e-mail, calendaring, custom Notes applications and components built in other technologies, including widgets, gadgets and Web page fragments.

Who can benefit?

End-users can use a more productive desktop
End-users can be more effective when all systems they use - including back-office systems - are aggregated on the screen and interoperate to help complete a work process. And select end users can create composite applications on their own, using drag-n-drop assembly, component wiring capabilities, predefined component libraries and components they have defined through the My Widgets feature.

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IT can gain flexibility and speed application deployment
Your existing Lotus Notes applications can be reused and aggregated in a business mashup, or composite application. In addition, new runtime capabilities allow IT to make use of other technologies like Java™ and Eclipse™ to create and aggregate multiple applications - including back-office systems - in a composite desktop. (Eclipse is an open source community committed to a universal development platform). IT can provide user-facing components that leverage their SOA strategy. And IT can include user-defined widgets, gadgets or Web page fragments in composite applications.