Let's Mash! Get the Presto Developer Edition now!
Posted 10/23/2008 - 16:09 by deepak.alur
Let's Mash! [I wanna hear David Bowie sing that!]
I am excited! We are excited! You see, today is a very special day for us developers at JackBe. We are putting all the work we have been doing over the last 2 years into the hands of the person most important to us - you, the mashup developer! I am happy to announce that we are making the Presto Developer Edition available to everyone for FREE to download and develop enterprise mashups! We are now empowering even more developers to free themselves from some conventional problems they have been dealing with by using, developing, deploying and applying the concept of enterprise mashups.
What's in it for me, did you say? ...Read the rest...
Person of Interest Tracker
Posted 11/17/2008 - 03:50 by mcvayw
The Person of Interest Tracker uses a number of mashups to process DC city statistics. The mashups check known actions by a person of interest against other potential incidents in the same neighborhood. The application can be used at: http://demos3.jackbe.com/mashlets/fugitiveFinder/
Create RSS Feed from any Service Output
Posted 11/15/2008 - 10:42 by kishores
Would'nt it be nice if there was a way to convert any data to RSS/Atom format ? How is RSS relevant to enterprises ? Traditionally, RSS feeds have been used to subscribe to news and other information in the consumer web. However, RSS is slowly but surely finding its way into the Enterprises. There are very good reasons why it should. To me, there are at least a few reasons for data to be formatted in the RSS format: ...Read the rest...
Apps for Democracy Carpool Mashup
Posted 11/14/2008 - 16:28 by mtriner
Check out this mashup I created for a local DC government mashup contest called Apps for Democracy. This contest was held for agencies and independents in hopes local citizens and companies would begin building mashups with DC's Data Catolog, a resource that has tons of open data feeds with information ranging from DC crimes statistics, transporation information, historical sites and much more. ...Read the rest...
Article - Mashing Up The Corporations
Posted 11/13/2008 - 15:06 by girish
Here is an interesting article from Forbes on:
- Why mashups are good for enteprise IT ?
- Why it's good idea to provide the right tools to users and let them roam free ?
- And their take on what JackBe has to offer
Excerpt from the article: "Mash ups offer a way to collect and contextualize information from many internal and external information sources and systems of record in such a way that business users can analyze it and take action. By working with mash ups, business users can incrementally build in the functionality and information they need. They create an initial mash up with one or two sources of information and then add a little more, perhaps information from another system of record or online information source."
Read the full article "Mashing Up The Corporations" ...Read the rest...
Mashups : New and Agile way to Integrate
Posted 11/13/2008 - 01:14 by deepak.alur
[Cross-posted from my personal blog]
I came across this interesting post: How Mashups Could Eliminate Integration Projects by Loraine Lawson. In a related post, she refers to John Crupi's article Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People which I would recommend to readers who want to understand JackBe's take on defining mashups. Anyway, Loraine's post led me to Ron Schmelzer's ZapFlash. Here are some excerpts of Ron's article that caught my eye, with my take on them.
Excerpt from ZapFlash:
A year or two ago, assuming that a mashup was a web browser-based, static, user interface composition of web-based functionality would be a reasonable presumption. But in the enterprise context, none of those assumptions necessarily hold – we might want non-Web access to mashed applications, we might want to change them regularly, and we might want to mash up information that exists below the user interface abstraction. For sure, Web mashups might embody the ideals of the original mashup concept, but we now have the desire to mash up a wide variety of IT resources from application to infrastructure to data that might be exposed with a wide range of interfaces – or without. And, it’s the desire to mash up information freed from the application that diversifies the mashup term to include the concept of the data mashup.
My take: This hits the point right on what we at JackBe have been saying all along about mashups. While some mashups are done purely in the UI/Browser, in the enterprise, such mashups need to be supported by a new tier, the mashup tier, which sits between the presentation and business tier. So enterprise mashups will have some mashing done in the client, but most of the mashing happens in server side where security, governance, policies can be applied before any mashing can happen in the client. ...Read the rest...
Demo de un Customer Lifetime Value utilizando Presto Connect for Excel
Posted 11/12/2008 - 15:11 by igo
Que tal miembros de la comunidad, en esta ocasion les traigo una demo hecha por Ricardo Suarez para presentar la interaccion entre datos de diversas fuentes, una hoja de Excel y el conector de Presto para Excel.
See you at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA
Posted 11/10/2008 - 01:14 by deepak.alur
The Presto team will be at the Mashup Camp. Registration is still open!
You can also compete in the Mashup Contest : details here and Going Green with Presto. If you are attending, please connect with us on site. We will be hovering around :-). See you there! ...Read the rest...
Presto @ Silicon Valley Code Camp : Session Report
Posted 11/10/2008 - 01:03 by deepak.alur
We attended the Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend. I presented an impromptu "lightning talk" on Presto, lightning because I had to do it in 5 minutes or less I think. I was able to give a good overview of enterprise mashups and even demo Presto Developer Edition within that time.
But more importantly, Kishore Subramanian presented a session titled - Building and Sharing Enterprise Mashups & Mashlets. There were about 30 attendees. Kishore went over the concepts behind our mashup approach like mashables, mashups, and shareables. Kishore demonstrated SalesForce mashups and walking through the internals including EMML code, about how you can merge data from SalesForce with data from internal proprietary data source and merge/combine to produce a mashup (virtual) service. He demonstrated how to invoke a mashup via a REST interface, which makes it easier to use a complex/mashup service. He also showed how to make a Mashlet using MashletMaker and share the mashlet. And finally he demonstrated Wires to show how to visually mashup by drag, drop and connect. I captured a few interesting questions that I wanted to share with the community... ...Read the rest...
Mashups in Salesforce.com
Posted 11/04/2008 - 11:30 by Karthic Thope
Presto Mashlets can be embedded in Salesforce.com pages using S-Controls. Salesforce.com S-Controls are reusable UI extensions for adding external content and can be embedded anywhere in your Salesforce application. With support for contextual wiring, S-Controls provide an easy way to embed powerful, dynamic and relevant mashups in your Salesforce application.
