Enterprise App & Mashup Resource Center

Mashups in the Enterprise IT Environment

Written By : Lane Cooper, BizTechReports.com

In today’s hyper-dynamic environment, large organizations no longer have the luxury of taking years to develop, test and deploy business applications. The heat is on for business units to analyze data faster and for developers and IT professionals to deliver solutions more quickly. As a result, IT is now often required to operate in “real time” where expectations are inordinately – and sometimes unrealistically – high. The response within many IT departments has been a quiet revolution – the introduction of mashups – a kind of ‘self-serve’ option for business units itching to access, manipulate and analyze their data more directly for better business agility.

Strategic Value of Enterprise Mashups

Written by: Lane Cooper, BizTechReports.com

The potential of mashups in the enterprise is great. Enterprise mashups offer a new way to accelerate the process of bringing together information throughout organizations, empowering non-technical business users to construct new insights that tap into the real-time sources of information that drive decisions. In an effort to better understand this new technology and comprehend the significant management implications that ensue, the editors of BizTechReports.Com sat down with subject matter experts at JackBe to explore the strategic, operational, financial and technological issues that organizations should consider to effectively harness this technology-enabled business application.

Nimble Intelligence: Enterprise BI Mashup Best Practices

Written by: Seth Grimes

Do you spend weeks or months waiting for information to be integrated into your data warehouse? Do you or your IT staff want to securely publish data with peers or partners, maybe outside of your corporate firewall? Do you want to discover new markets and channels by expanding the use of your Business Intelligence assets? In this whitepaper, Seth Grimes addresses today’s new data challenges: agility, sharing and collaboration. He also outlines the important solution elements in a ‘nimble intelligence’ solution, as well share his thoughts on potential usage scenarios and stories.

EMML Changes Everything: Profitability, Predictability & Performance through Enterprise Mashups

Written by: Jim Benson, Hinchcliffe and Company

The hybridization of information is quickly becoming a corporate staple. The mashup market itself is projected to grow tenfold over the next 5 years as companies seek to create software solutions more rapidly and less expensively while capturing business opportunities that weren’t previously possible. Fueling this growth is the explosion in available data and the subsequent reduction in mashup creation cost.

Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise (Chapter 1)

Written by: Mike Ogrinz

According to Amazon.com: ‘Using new mashup tools and technologies, enterprise developers can impose their own APIs on everything from Web sites and RSS feeds to Excel and PDF files–transforming a world of content into their own customized information source. In Mashup Patterns, Michael Ogrinz applies the concept of software development patterns to mashups, systematically revealing the right ways to build enterprise mashups and providing useful insights to help organizations avoid the mistakes that cause mashups to fail.’

Chapter 1 of Mashup Patterns is available on JackBe.com at no charge courtesy of Mr. Ogrinz and his publisher. You can buy the book on Amazon.com and many other online bookstores.

Zapthink - Zapnote on JackBe Mashups

Written by: Jason Bloomberg, Co-Founder and Senior Analyst at Zapthink

Enterprise mashups—governed compositions of loosely-coupled Services within a rich, Web-based environment—are attracting increasing levels of attention today, because of their visible business value as well as the user empowerment they promise. Providing the infrastructure necessary to support the governance and loose coupling such mashups need, however, requires Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

A Business Guide to Enterprise Mashups

Written by: John Crupi, CTO at JackBe

Based upon the experiences of JackBe in enterprise mashup implementations, this paper discusses topics such as ‘Defining a Mashup’, ‘Enterprise Mashup Principles’, a case study of ‘Enterprise Mashups in Action’.