Enterprise information mashup and real time business assurance for global collaboration

Abstract

As part the globalization trend, enterprises are facing a serious challenge of needing to be globally consistent and locally nimble at the same time. Recent rapid evolution of Web 2.0 and real-time event driven architecture served as the catalyst for new paradigms in enterprise information composition, and potentially enable much more flexible real-time global collaboration. This new paradigm will have profound impact on the enterprise IT architectures. The current state-of-the-art approach in enterprise information composition is often based on data federation and information integration. However, many information composition tasks can be much better served through Situational Applications (i.e. applications that are mash-uped for addressing some of the immediate business problems). A new class of integration technologies, also known as enterprise information mashup fabric, will emerge to serve these tasks. Meanwhile, there is also an emerging trend towards real-time business assurance in which enterprise wide information integrity is ensured through technologies such as provenance (who has done what on this information) and policy automation to facilitate "trusted" and fully automated information composition. © 2006 IEEE.