Mashup Resource Center

An Executive Guide to Mashups in the Enterprise

Written by: Dion Hinchcliffe, Founder of Web 2.0 University

Mashups are a rapidly growing architectural technique for building new software systems. In the enterprise context they have the potential to create significant competitive advantage by enabling rapid innovation of business processes as well the co-creation with end-users of new systems that leverage the collective intelligence of an organization. Though this technology is still emerging, the potential it promises is already being exploited today by early adopters.

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’.