IBM unveiled the industry's first complete mashup portfolio for business, empowering individuals to create situational applications, or mashups, and to help them do their jobs more effectively and meet the needs of the emerging real time enterprise. Innovative companies of every size are beginning to realize the possibilities of Web 2.0, and IBM's deep history in open standards, information integration and emerging Internet technologies, make the company an undeniably strong partner in a new technology era.

<A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23838.wss">IBM Mashup Center</A> allows non-technical users to literally drag and drop mashup components from personal, enterprise and Web sources to easily create, deploy and share customized Web applications in minutes. In addition to the ease-of-use, the product also includes the management, security and governance capabilities that IT departments require. The IBM Mashup Center is planned to begin Beta on April 15, 2008.