Name : Zainab Mahrusatullah Class : IT-3

Advantages of Mashups for Users 1. Minimized application data management: Information goes stale very fast in this day and age, by leveraging third party data providers you can ensure reduced costs related to maintaining and updating your own data repositories. 2. Reduced development effort: Tailoring data to a particular application often implies lengthy development times, customizing data sets through most Mashup sources or web service API's, involves taking advantage of business logic which has been thoroughly tested and designed to solve a particular domain problem, and is maintained by a specialized service provider. 3. Unlimited data sources based on standards: Once your applications are structured as Mashups, swapping between the growing number of data sources available on the web can create an exponential number of possibilities for all your developments, since all providers are based on the same industry standards. Some benefits of mashup to sellers or buyers of auctions 1. Mashups allow for the reuse of existing applications. 2. They also allow for rapid application development. 3. Development of a mashup does not necessarily involve extensive IT skills. 4. The associated cost of application development is greatly reduced. 5. Applications are better tailored to users' needs since the users can now incorporate content that they were unable to develop themselves due to time or resource constraints. 6. Increase productivity: An enterprise mashup platform enables companies to reduce the amount of work they do in order to get data to business users so that they can make decisions. Such an approach shifts workloads from overburdened IT staffs to non-technical staffs without custom IT development or cumbersome integration solutions.

7. Increase innovation: Because theyre user-friendly and user-driven, both senior executives and line business staffs can explore new opportunities and solve problems in new ways. An enterprise mashup platform would contain a library of all mashups to be built so that they are available to anyone who wants to leverage existing thinking without reinventing the wheel. 8. Improve data security: Enterprise mashup platforms enable an organization to quickly leverage the value of existing data securely across widely disparate sources, bringing information into tailored user interfaces, portals or platforms. 9. Reduce burden to IT departments/increase freedom for business users from IT: Rather than depending on the IT staff to develop a new report, business managers and analysts can mix and match sources to create their own dashboards from which to make decisions. 10. Increase standardization across the enterprise: Enterprise mashups offer a new way to accelerate the process of bringing together information throughout organizations by using Web data standards to access critical information. 11. Bring an App Store model approach to development, versus big-bang projects: The micro-applications created for enterprise mashups contrast with the traditional approach to software development, in which an entire application might be altered in order to enable access to that narrow set of purchase order data. Mashups provide a way for developers to better approach these needs with a more agile solution.