Interesting article

After long delay...I am back again to mashup world...

I found an interesting article on mashup ...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/forrester/?p=123

Enterprise mashup solution from Big Blue

IBM recently announced the availability of it's enterprise mashup solution, IBM Mashup Center, which will be coming to the market in 2008.

For more details on IBM Mashup Center , you can visit the homepage - http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/mashup-center/ and interesting Beta launching video in Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAPM_h12riw&feature=related

On-Demand mashup - Kapow OnDemand

Kapow Technologiy recently announced industry's first on-demand mashup server "Kapow OnDemand". According to the company source, this solution "will help turn the Web into a personal information service for users".

This solution also comes with excel connector so that user can find and execute Web services that deliver data directly to their spreadsheet. This solution also capable of delivering the data from web to directly into your enterprise application in terms of xml.

OASIS Symposium 2008 - mashup everywhere

The conference went very well with so many great sessions. Nortel presented their idea moving up in value chain by providing communication building blocks so that different solution provider can "mashup" those components to build the solutions.

My presentation and SAP's presentation on mashup in middleware very well accepted. People raised skepticisms about IT politics in enterprise which may not allow mashup to be reality in enterprise context. There are also concerns about bandwidth challenge inside the enterprise when every one creating and using the eneterprise information sources.

The conference was very well covered by many online magazines. One report on Infoworld has summed the first day of the conference :

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3jn6tx

OASIS Symposium 2008 - composability within SOA

This will be great event for learning how SOA supports composability.

For the event home page :
" This exciting two-day event will explore the advantages of applying Service-Oriented Architecture techniques for assembling and tuning applications developed on different platforms and managed by different owners. You'll learn how others are addressing challenges, share your own viewpoints, compare notes, make connections, and explore why open standards are critical to success.

This year's event opens with keynote addresses from Peter Carbone, Vice President—Service Oriented Architecture at Nortel and Douglas Shoupp, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; and will close with an interactive panel where industry vendors and practitioners come together to discuss SOA within vertical industries. "

I am presenting "lightweight" composability using Mashup.

There are two different types of enterprise IT projects in Web 2.0 and SOA : systematic , long term projects which gives conservative reliability, whereas opportunistic, short term projects (or “situational applications”) using "lightweight" compositin of services are for competitive agility. Mashups fit into the later one.

Please attend the presentation with lotz of questions. I promise to make it as interactive as possible.

OnDemand Integration – Integration-as-Service

SaaS based applications continue to grow at a staggering rate. According to software market analysts, SaaS represented approximately 5% of business software revenue in 2005 and, by 2011, 25% of new business software will be delivered as SaaS and will grow at a 21% % annual growth rate (CAGR) during the next four years.

As the acceptance and popularity of SaaS applications has continued to rise dramatically, traditional enterprise integration software has become the Achilles heel of the SaaS industry. Additionally, the wide variety of SaaS vendors specializing in different areas has resulted in companies attempting to stitch together information from a number of different places. Traditional integration software products are inconsistent with the values of SaaS in terms of cost, complexity and time to implement. SOA and XML driven application integrations are very well suited for this purpose. But demand will continue to grow for easy to use, manageable, highly scalable on-demand integration.

I will present how this trend relates to enterprise mashup in Ajax World 2008 West.

10th Berkeley Business Plan Competition - we are semi-finalist

We moved to semifinal round with our business plan to build an new enterprise mashup platform.

We are one of the lucky 25 teams [ out of 70-100 teams ].

25 teams are :

Culinary Talent Management (CTM)
Noca, Inc.
Fanatix
ActionPact
Steel & Canvas
Vyoo, Inc.
Kebima
Implicit Interfaces
Stakkit
Carsala
MyCatalogSpace
LReady
reporterist, inc.
Dataspora
Tixonomy
World Hearing Organization Inc.
IQ Engines
Glycometrix
IMMUTELL
Omniox Inc
Parco Homes
Virtual Mindset
SiMoney
Titan Medical

and we [ Saas Accelerator ]

2008 predictions - big win for enterprise mashup

Different predictions for 2008 enterprise software landscape by Chappell ,Hinchcliffe , Zapthink are highlighting the significant emergence of enterprise mashup in the enterprises.

It is also getting highlighted how mashup governance will be very critical for enterprise IT.

OASIS Open Std. 2008 Symposium

I got a chance again to speak about my "enterprise mashup" framework in another technology conference. I am really glad that they gave me an opportunity to speak about it in front of all the industry and std. leaders. This is going to happen on April 28-30 , 2008 at Santa Clara Marriott.

More details from OASIS :

"This exciting two-day event will explore the advantages of applying
Service-Oriented Architecture techniques for assembling and tuning
applications developed on different platforms and managed by different
owners."

You can the session details here : http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/schedule

BEA mashup platform - Genesis

BEA announces product suites for enterprise mashup creation platform. The project name is "Genesis" which also has touch of SaaS.

Please see the complete press release here http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=moreinfo_proj_genesis.jsp

This product suite has been scheduled to be released on Q2 of 2008.