Mash data and applications with MindTouch's flexible surface

Employees at all levels use information from inside the firewall and from outside on the Internet to accomplish everyday tasks and achieve business objectives. Access to data from within, key current information on the market and competitors from without is paramount to making relevant decisions in our dynamic information rich world. With MindTouch users can aggregate vital internal and external data or automate and combine information gathering and application behavior. This is commonly referred to as mashups. Why are mashups important? Because mashups save time, increase productivity and communication at all levels of the organization. Business users are demanding not only access to data, but also require the ability to put it into context within a framework of relevant information without having to rely on IT or development resources to write code.

Business users want the personal flexibility to do different things by combining available data from within and outside the organization. Enterprise mashups bring together company data (sales, market research, transactions etc. etc.) with information off the public web, and integrates it with different sources within the organization. MindTouch lets you cross organizational boundaries, if allowed and configured appropriately, and pull together data and information throughout your business securely and mash it up with unlimited data points, creating visualizations that improve understanding by adding context to the information or juxtapose it with real-time collaboration in the form of text, comments and file attachments. You get the right information to the right people at the right time so they can get their job done efficiently and make the best informed business decisions.

MindTouch makes it easy to access data securely and with enforced permissioning from any back-end business system, such as finance, HR, ERP, CRM, etc... and mash this up with the unlimited source of data and information available on the web or simply visualize it with maps, charts or graphs. The IT professional, with MindTouch, can create enterprise mashups that have access to a user’s private individual data and other corporate information while still enforcing existing IT security and identity policies. 

You do not have to be an IT guru or a programmer to create mashups of your own with MindTouch. In fact, mashups in MindTouch are so easy almost anyone can combine internal and external data from various legacy systems, enterprise applications, Web 2.0 applications, databases and web-services and organize these systems and data in manner most appropriate and efficient for them, all without writing any code and while still enforcing IT governance and security policies.