Joe McKendrick recently commented in his Fast Forward blog, Mashups: So Easy a Caveman Can Write Them? He makes a good case of the continued involvement of IT despite the claims of some mashup supporters. Joe quotes Ovum analyst, Tony Baer, “...no matter how visual mashup tools are, you still need developers or power users at some point of the lifecycle, whether it be to vet objects or sources than can be safely mashed up without violating some corporate policy, or to deal with some complexities of JavaScript under the hood.”
Joe concludes with the implication that even when the ease of use gets to the point where a caveman can do them, there is still a need for IT to play a supporting role in the foreseeable future. I agree since someone needs to test and validate the multiple data sources when business practices are at stake.
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