Data Governance Matters

Serena is the name of a software development company. Summer Ficarrotta is the name of their Product Marketing Manager for Business Mashups. She addressed us here at the Independent Analysts Platform in Phoenix. We all know what a mashup is, right? It’s an application made by pulling two or more sets of information together in a dynamic function. According to Summer, some of the benefits of business mashups are that they:
○ Shrink the application backlog
○ Improve productivity throughout your organization
○ Coordinate activities across teams and applications
○ Empower the business to innovate

The Serena product, she says, helps builders of mashups to
○ Design and deploy mashups without coding
○ Provide the strongest mashup governance

Summer points out that sometimes IT staff are concerned about mashups. Her point is that IT needs to provide the right infrastructure and provide best practices.

And it needs to provide governance.

Halleluiah, sister. I’m with you there. That’s so common sense to me - mashups provide great freedom to display information, but such freedom needs to be tempered with careful and considered governance.

Anybody out there have experience in your organization with providing governance for mashups? Let me know how that’s working for you.

For posts detailing capabilities reported by vendors presenting to us, check out Shawn Rogers’ great b-eye blog at http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/rogers/.