Mashup Center Import for Microsoft Excel is a Microsoft Excel-based add-in which allows line-of-business users to import enterprise and internet data that is contained within any Mashup Center catalog.

IBM Mashup Center is a lightweight information management environment for IT and business professionals who wish to unlock and share Web, departmental, personal, and enterprise information for use in Web 2.0 applications and mashups. By using the Mashup Center Import, users can easily import data feeds (from relational databases, XML files, and other enterprise data repositories) into Excel in order to analyze the data. A business user can easily refresh the spreadsheet to import the most-recent data from a data repository.

How does it work?

The Excel add-in reads in an ATOM feed from the Mashup Center catalog and places data within a specified worksheet.

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