MashZone NextGen Hub

The MashZone NextGen Hub is the collaborative work place for power users, developers and administrators. MashZone NextGen Hub provides a single place to use MashZone NextGen tools to create mashables and mashups, create and publish apps, and manage all of these artifacts.

MashZone NextGen Hub users can collaborate with each other by sharing, tagging, rating and commenting on any artifact in the MashZone NextGen Hub. MashZone NextGen Hub also provides a powerful search and browse feature to find any artifact based on common filters or specific search terms and criteria. Community reuse and rating of mashables, mashups and apps maximizes the value of IT assets and improves the quality of information for everyone.

The App Maker is a visual wizard for power users or developers to easily create basic apps from any single mashable information source or mashup in MashZone NextGen. No coding required!

Users can choose one or more views from a wide variety of formats for mashable/mashup results. Built-in views include several types of tables, a web feed reader, maps and many types of charts. Developers can also add pluggable views for power users to choose from. Depending on the views chosen, you can design apps for desktop browsers, mobile phones, mobile tablets or any combination.

Note: Most built-in MashZone NextGen views are compatible with both desktop and mobile devices. Pluggable views can also be compatible with multiple devices. Some views, however, are only compatible with desktop browsers and are not shown in mobile devices.

App Maker allows you to preview and update app configuration till you are satisfied with the app for the devices you choose to support for that app. When users open apps, MashZone NextGen automatically displays the views that are compatible with their current device.

Mashboard is a visual, drag-and-drop designer for power users or developers to create workspace apps that combine and integrate several basic or custom apps or views to work together in a dashboard or simply group apps and views for a specific focus. Workspace apps can be published and used just like basic or custom apps. This easy-to-use, visual dashboard designer enables you to quickly create powerful apps for even the most challenging business problems and ad-hoc situations.

Note: Some workspace apps are compatible with mobile devices, but some may not be, depending on the layout you choose and the device compatibility or the apps and views you add to the workspace.

Mashboard supports a wide variety of layouts for combining apps including simple columns, tables, drill downs, a desktop layout, multiple tabs or multiple pages. You can also include widgets from other environments or web pages along with apps and views into workspaces for more flexibility.

App Editor is a web-based tool for app developers to upload or update custom apps. Custom apps allow developers to create more complex user interfaces or match specific look and feel standards that may not be possible with basic or workspace apps.

Custom apps use a MashZone NextGen App Specification plus common web application resources such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images and other media. With the App Editor, you can upload or download all related, client-side resources for an app as a package, making it easy for developers to share app packages or add or update custom apps in MashZone NextGen from their development code base.

Wires is an easy-to-use, visual drag-and-drop, web-based tool ideal for quick and easy visual mashup creation, no coding involved! Power users and developers can use Wires to create and modify mashups, performing custom, real-time data integration tasks. You can quickly review results at any step within the mashup for immediate feedback.

Wires provides easy access to all available mashables and mashups in MashZone NextGen to use as information sources in a mashup. It includes many built-in, power-packed action blocks for easier mashing that leverage the underlying features of the MashZone NextGen platform. Developers can also create custom blocks to extend Wires functionality and handle utility or business-specific requirements. You can also create input parameters for mashups to set properties dynamically when the mashup is used.

Wires simplifies the process of creating mashups, but also limits the mashup features you can use.

The Mashup Editor is a web-based authoring tool for mashups and macros defined in the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML). Developers can rapidly and easily create mashups and macros using the full features of EMML.

Mashup Editor provides easy access to all available mashups and mashables to use as information sources in a mashup. You can also quickly add EMML code, add RAQL queries to work with large datasets or call EMML macros. Mashup Editor allows you to easily run a mashup to test it and inspect the performance characteristics of your EMML statements.

Developers can also create and test EMML macros for use in mashups or for use in Wires as custom action blocks.

MashZone NextGen Hub also includes the Admin Console, a web based tool for MashZone NextGen administrators to configure and manage the MashZone NextGen Server. This simple, easy to use tool offers a wide degree of control to inspect, configure, and manage the features of MashZone NextGen.