Application life cycle management company Serena Software today announced a new SaaS-based Mashup Exchange. The tool, called Mashup Composer, will be made available for free to all users, and customers will pay only when the Business Mashup is put into production. In the press release, Serena said that it is the company's first step in an effort to merge Web 2.0 technologies with enterprise systems and that it hopes to make it easy for business users to create new composite applications without specialized resources.
Serena Software was also discussed last week by Scott Wilson of the CIO Weblog, who posted about the still pervasive fear of SaaS and user-driven content management. Apparently Serena's announcement of the Vail mashup platform (the original codename of what became Mashup Composer) sparked some discussion that suggested many companies are still afraid of taking mashups out of the hands of the IT department.
Wilson cited the discussion at a blog by Chris Murphy of InformationWeek where many users responded to the announcement of Serena's intentions with skepticism about targeting non-IT users with a mashup creation tool, pointing out that, after all, IT departments were there to ensure corporate IT policy was being followed and that implementations were sound.
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Gartner is predicting that Mashup will change the Software delivery mechanism in enterprise. This will be more prevalent when current facebook/myspace user/developer will join the enterprise workforce and don't want to wait for IT department to deliver their applications. IT department also see this is an opportunity to delegate their development backlog to the user.
A good enterprise mashup platform will be required to deliver enterprise mashup with all the IT policy enforcement.