Blog Spotlight: Andy Mulholland on Enterprise Quality and Enterprise Mashups

Andy Mullholland, Global CTO at Capgemini and co-author of 'Mashup Corporations The End of Business As Usual' and 'Mesh Collaboration', has always been a practical proponent of enterprise innovation. In a recent blog post Andy gave the topic of enterprise quality a thorough consideration. He highlighted the importance of manageability in an enterprise services endeavour and then, notably, described this attribute as the difference between seat-of-the-pants mashups and mashups created within a governed mashup framework:

...here is where I see the benefit of adopting an Enterprise MashUp approach with elements designed from the start to offer both a framework for deployable MashUps that manages the policies with a MashUp engine to perform a similar role with Data provenance. It’s tempting to just use some open source elements and build ad-hoc MashUps that will work just fine, until the issues of managing become apparent. The lessons of the PC era of deploy cheap, and spend a lot of money to re-establish control of ‘information’ under a new role termed CIO, are still a little close in my mind to want to get caught this way again.

We couldn't agreed more! You can (and should) read Andy's entire post on the Capgemini CTO Blog.