Enterprise mashups all have one thing in common – they require access to the underlying set of data and services that are required to feed the mashup. Getting access to this data can prove to be very challenging, since many data sources don’t provide an API’s to get at the data and repurpose it.

The Data Collection Edition of the Kapow Mashup Server solves this problem by enabling API-based access to a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, from a wide variety of sources, both in the web tier and the filesystem. Using the Kapow generated API’s, a developer can then repurpose that data into other applications or mashups, reformat it, or write it to a database.

The Data Collection Edition is the recommended solution for data-centric mashups that contain little or no presentation layer, or when modeling data objects or combining multiple data types as part of an application data flow or integration.