Saturday, March 7, 2009

Excel, the original (but manual) corporate mashup | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com

“Make no mistake about it — despite the recent buzz around Enterprise 2.0, people have been creating mashups for many years…. Microsoft Excel is arguably the father of the corporate data mashup. For years, Excel end users have cut-and-pasted data to feed their calculation engines. Spreadsheet-based solutions have spread throughout the enterprise without the involvement of IT. Mashup tools enable the automation of this aggregation process, and a new clan of users is poised to run wild with the technology.”
Excel, the original (but manual) corporate mashup | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com

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