IBM Mashup Accelerator

Have been hearing about Mashup from quite sometime now. Here is what IBM has to say about IBM Mashup Acclerator

Benefits of IBM Mashup Accelerator
- Lower development costs, deliver rapid ROI, reduce application backlog
- Empower business users, improve user effectiveness and save time
- Unlock previously siloed information (spreadsheets, departmental,desktop)
- Speed integration between WebSphere Portal and IBM Mashup Center

Included with Mashup Accelerator
- Feed Generation
- Enterprise data sources (e.g. WebSphere MQ, Databases, ECM,DB2, Domino, Web Services)
- Departmental and Desktop sources (Sharepoint, spreadsheets, etc)
- Web sources (3rd Web services, RSS etc)
- Catalog
- Community catalog for feeds, widgets, mashups with comments,ratings and tags
- Transform and Remix Information with Data Mashups
- Code-free way to remix information – e.g. Spreadsheets with databases

Assemble Mashup pages
- Out of the box business focused and power user widgets
- Creation of spaces with multiple pages
- Simple widget wizard
- Code-free creation of widgets – with Widget Factory