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When analysts talk, people listen. I am proud to say that JackBe is no exception. For example, we recently heard that a recent Forrester survey of 262 US IT decision-makers revealed ‘41% have never heard of mashups’. Based on this, Larry Dignan a

I know a good idea when I see one. Recently I was inspired by a blog post from esteemed Web 2.0 big-thinker Andrew McAfee. In ‘Some Questions you Might Get Asked’ he compiled a list of commonly-asked questions when discussing Enterprise 2.0.So I po

About this time last month I wrote a 'Mashups in Action' post that described a then-nameless organization's use of mashups and mashlets (mashup-driven widgets) to expand the reach of their collaborative professional community outside the walls of the

Andy Mullholland, Global CTO at Capgemini and co-author of 'Mashup Corporations The End of Business As Usual' and 'Mesh Collaboration', has always been a practical proponent of enterprise innovation. In a recent blog post Andy gave the topic of ente

Last week at Forrester's IT Forum one of the analysts suggested that spreadsheets would become the killer app for mashups. They certainly are as good a candidate as any other but it's worth considering the alternatives. Between spreadsheets, portal

Do you know widgets? You’ve probably used these shrink-wrapped micro-applications on one website or other. Google has made widgets a staple of their information-from-any-source iGoogle interface. Amazon has their ‘Pay Now’ widget. Yahoo has a n

We're a bit behind on our blogs. But let me tell you what I told my boss earlier this week: we have a huge list of excuses. Most importantly, we've been busy launching Presto 2.0, the next generation of our award-winning enterprise mashup platform. I

Yesterday I presented for the second year in a row at the CSC Leading Edge Forum.This year's theme was "Mean, Lean and Green" and I presented JackBe's vision of a leaner IT future: dynamic data integration, syndicated mashups, mashup-based Enterprise

It has been almost a year since IBM’s Mashup Eco-System Summit and we noted at the time that there was some confusion among the attendees as to what truly defined an enterprise mashup. Since then we’ve defined the 5Cs of Enterprise Mashups and, more

Here at JackBe we’re always trying to move the state of the mashup art forward. In past posts we’ve described mashup best practices like the 5Cs of Enterprise Mashups, mashup security, the integration of mashups with important enterprise solutions t