Dion Hinchcliffe wrote an interesting article on mashups in the enterprise and the advantages/challenges of using this software model in the enterprise. This is very close to my own thinking of a powerful, emerging software model for enterprise applications. As I mention in my previous article, imagine being able to replicate the whole mashup phenomenon within your IT department.

IMO, most web applications in the enterprise essentially manipulate documents – especially, Intranet applications. Sure there’s the occasional mashup – a Store Locator link which displays a map from Google or Yahoo! But, most corporate web applications require manipulating (viewing, editing, creating …) Customers, Orders, Accounts, Bills, Receipts – typically using HTML forms. I’ve built many applications over time where the front end (forms) essentially perform CRUD operations on documents and over time I’ve found REST to be the ideal approach for creating these applications.

As I’ve said before, what’s missing is an easy way to mash up these operations on documents to create Rich Internet Applications. Given that the majority of corporate applications are basically a bunch of forms, frevvo Live Forms provides a great solution - easily mash up these CRUD operations into rich, dynamic, Ajax-based forms - a powerful and simple model for building corporate software applications.