In an article in Application Development Trends, John K. Waters writes:

Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The publisher of the popular "In a Nutshell" computer books series declared that the Internet is fast becoming "a global platform for everything," and an "amazing tool for harnessing collective intelligence."

"Up until now, a lot of the Web 2.0 activity has been on the consumer Internet," O'Reilly said, "but I think enterprises really are starting to understand that Web 2.0 is about turning themselves inside out, about becoming network citizens, opening themselves to the world in new ways.

If the number of enterprise-oriented announcements at the event is any indication, O'Reilly might be right. Eight notable commercial releases stood out in the bleeding-edge cloud crowd at this year's show.

SnapLogic's Data Integration Approach
SnapLogic released the 2.0 version of its namesake data integration framework. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company specializes in what it calls "Really Simple Integration," which uses RESTful Web technology to provide agile data integration for company IT groups. The company derives its integration model from RSS (really simple syndication), the XML-based system for aggregating and rapidly scanning information from blogs, news and current-event Web sites. With SnapLogic's integration solution in operation, "knowledge workers use familiar tools, including Web browsers, Google and Excel, to discover, consume, transform and publish enterprise data," according to company literature.

Read the article here.