Persuading Others

The Enterprise App Store and Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive - By Dion Hinchcliffe on Enterprise Irregulars

Posted 02/22/2010 - 12:22 by jpike1212

In the enterprise, IT faces overwhelming demands for timely and accurate data in the form of easy-to-use applications.  This demand is not surprising considering these enterprise consumers are also commercial consumers who experience an overwhelming influx of applications to help them be more productive in every area of their personal lives.  The vision, of course, is bridging that experience between the enterprise and the consumer world; making it so business users can rapidly find and build applications to solve their challenges.   [Read More...]

BI, Mashups Are So Right for Each Other - By Ann All on IT Business Edge

Posted 02/03/2010 - 12:36 by MiMi Levine

BI is a tried and true practice: flawed, yet familiar.  BI relies on the fact that there is a strong IT department content with getting “business analysts the tools they need and get[ing] out of the way”, says BI analyst Seth Grimes.  This means that IT is expected to learn sales numbers and financial data (i.e. the language of the data analyst), along with their usual duties of handling hardware, network issues, security, backups and anything else having to do with computer support. [Read More...]

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JackBe Enterprise Mashups That Both Leverage and Justify SOA - Zapthink

Posted 01/19/2010 - 13:17 by MiMi Levine

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).  [Read More...]

Portals: From SOA to Mashups - Quotes from Ray Valdes @ Gartner

Posted 01/19/2010 - 13:14 by MiMi Levine

The theory of horizontal portal technology and of enterprise portal deployments, as articulated by portal vendors over the past decade, is compelling and comprehensive. Portals can serve as a unifying force in a fragmented IT environment —or at least have the potential of fulfilling that promise. [Read More...]

Enterprise Mashups Gain Traction at Last

Posted 01/19/2010 - 13:11 by MiMi Levine

 This is an era where everything is getting lighter, beginning with just about everyone's wallet. And in some cases less substantial budgets force needed change. Old, heavy processes fall of their own weight and are replaced by agile ones that cost less. Customers turn up the heat on software vendors and lighten licensing costs. Here and there, you'll even see locally installed hardware and software replaced by cloud services so lightweight they require no maintenance by IT at all. [Read More...]

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Enterprise Mashups Gain Traction at Last

Getting on the Same Page - By John Moore

Posted 01/19/2010 - 12:44 by MiMi Levine

Government managers are no strangers to the challenge of trying to combine data stored in different systems into a more useful composite picture. The task is even more complex because the systems housing this data were usually not built with flexibility and sharing in mind. 

The emergence of so-called mashups represents a new take on this old problem. Mashups are Web applications that pull together select data and software functionality from two or more sources. Mashups, considered a segment of Web 2.0 technology, come in two flavors: consumer and enterprise mashups.

Mashups are Poised for Business Outbreak - Jeff Feinman

Posted 01/19/2010 - 12:42 by MiMi Levine

It started slowly. First, one person in Mexico got sick. Then another. Then more. The culprit? A strain of influenza commonly known as swine flu. But before it was identified, folks returning from that country were unwittingly bringing the deadly flu back to their homelands.

As fear of a pandemic grew, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) needed to get a handle on outbreaks of the H1N1 virus. One of the tools of their disposal was a software mashup, created by IBM, that brings together the CDC’s reporting data with Google Maps. [Read More...]

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The Mashup Opportunity - G. Oliver Young

Posted 01/19/2010 - 12:33 by MiMi Levine

Mashups — custom applications that combine multiple, disparate data sources into something new and 

unique — are coming to the enterprise. Forrester projects that the enterprise mashup market will reach 

nearly $700 million by 2013; while this means that there is plenty of money to be made selling mashup 

platforms, it will affect nearly every software vendor. Mashup platforms are in the pole position and  [Read More...]

Creating Enterprise Mashups

Posted 01/19/2010 - 12:28 by MiMi Levine

Google Maps' extensibility help put mashups on the map, but how can you harness the power of mashups for business applications? John Crupi, CTO of JackBe, explains how enterprise mashups work and who can benefit.

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Mashup Essentials - By Judith Lamont

Posted 01/19/2010 - 12:24 by MiMi Levine

Most computer users have had the experience of wanting to view sets of information side by side but being thwarted because the information comes from different sources. Often, they resort to cutting and pasting from one to another. An emerging technology for overcoming that barrier is so-called "mashup" software, which provides a unified view of information from different sources. Although a small market now, those products are increasingly providing an alternative to time-consuming manual processes or expensive custom integrations.