A brand new white paper and article series being released over the summer explores the power of emergent IT using enterprise mashups.
Examining little known success stories involving open standards, enterprise mashups, and effective business/IT alignment in the fields of financial services, retail, and government, the white paper and articles represent a unique vision of the future of business and IT in the Web 2.0 era.
Series co-author Dion Hinchcliffe said, "Mashups have become common occurance on the Web for quickly connecting data together to solve the problem du jour. Now the same thing is beginning to happen in the business world with enterprise mashups."
Wikipedia defines a mashup as a "a Web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup typically implies quick, easy integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data.
Enterprise mashups are similar but add important features demanded by business including security, governance, additional standards support, and support for enterprise technologies such as portals and advanced Web services. Because developers and users can experiment more freely to create the solutions they need, enterprise mashups hold the potential to unleash innovation and outside-the-box solutions to business problems. And it's standards, the white paper reports, which seemingly hold the key to ensuring that all the pieces will fit together when combined.
As organizations increasingly begin to look at strategic alternatives to heavyweight IT and SOA for their integration and application development needs, mashups, combined with open standards, are ushering in a new era of business-class tools that can bring the success of mashups from the consumer world safely into the business environment.
Sponsored by IBM and their Mashup Center product, the article series is a deep exploration of enabling enterprise mashups with open standards using examples from major organizations such as Cardiff University and Boeing.
Two of the three articles in the series have been released and it will finish at the end of August with story about enterprise mashups and government.
The white paper and articles can be found at Hinchcliffe & Company's Enterprise Mashups Resource Center.
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