tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:09:26 +0000Serena SoftwareBusiness mashupsBusiness mashupEnterprise MashupsBig SOAdata mashupenterprise mashupDion HinchcliffeGuerrilla SOAWeb 2.0ActiveGridBPMEnterprise Web 2.0JackBeMashup GovernanceSOA GovernanceZapThinkDapperEnterprise 2.0Google Mashup EditorIntel Mash MakerQEDWikibusiness analystpresentation mashupALFBig ITCarrCentral ParkCogheadDave ChappellDenodoEclipseFake Steve JobsFinancial IndustryGartnerGeorge CarlinHIMSHRHTML screen scrapingHigginsIT AlignmentIntelJohn DonneKapowMillenialsNExaWebOpenKapowOrchestr8PortalsRSSRoboMakerSOA ConsumersSOBASecuritySerena Mashup ComposerWOAWaveMakerYahoo PipesalphaWorksblogingconsumer mashpconsumer mashupcoopetitioneWeekfrenemiesfroesmashupssemantic webwikiBusiness mashups are new, combining the best of consumer mashups and data mashups with a strong process component. I'll be answering questions, making comments and otherwise talk about this new trend in building business applications.http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Shaw)Blogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-885187541273324193Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:41:00 +00002008-11-13T15:16:26.633-08:00Big SOAGartnerGuerrilla SOAI just read a Government Technology article stating that Gartner says there is a dramatic decrease of organizations planning first-time SOA projects. Here's the money quote.Since the beginning of 2008, there has been a dramatic fall in the number of organizations that are planning to adopt SOA for the first time. In 2008, this was cut by more than one-half, down to 25 percent from 53 percent in http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/11/gartner-says-that-initial-soa-adoption.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-936025258973752555Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:00 +00002008-11-11T10:21:57.039-08:00Loyal readers may remember that I stopped writing this blog when my boss instituted a policy requiring all blogs be approved by PR before publication. Since I wouldn't submit my blog to PR, I stopped writing it, at least under my own name.I'm no longer with my prior company, so it is time to start up this blog again. I've got a backlog of issues to write about. So many, in fact, that you can http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/11/hello-again-everyone-or-all-two-of-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-6590414051073515331Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:48:00 +00002008-06-23T07:52:51.239-07:00To all three of my readers out there, I'm sad to say that this will be my last post for this blog.We now have a policy stating that all external communications have to be run through our PR department. Since I'm not comfortable having my blog reviewed, I'm going to stop this one.No need to weep in despair, however. I will be blogging under another name and another account, so keep a http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/06/farewell-business-mashups-blogi-dont.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-2954550549623741160Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:14:00 +00002008-06-05T09:40:39.562-07:00blogingBusiness mashupsEnterprise Web 2.0HRwikiI just read an article by INQUIRER.net writer Lawrence Casiraya that had me raising my eyebrows. He interviewed IDC's Shalini Verma about the concept of "unified communications" and how Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking can help distributed organizations collaborate more effectively.Here's the money quote.So how can businesses begin to embrace Web 2.0? The task may fall into the http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/06/idc-says-hr-to-help-web-20-adoption.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-1086157949385405787Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:44:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:42.732-08:00Big ITBig SOAbusiness analystBusiness mashupsGuerrilla SOASerena SoftwareI’ve neglected this blog for a while, and now it’s time to get back to it. I didn’t think changing jobs would have much of an effect on my blogging output. Wrong again, Shaw. These days I have to do my reading and blogging mostly after hours, and that does change the dynamic. What takes priority, doing laundry, weeding the garden, helping with homework, balancing the checkbook, playing fetch withhttp://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/06/news-from-mashup-trenches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-1056999571321623292Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:14:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:42.745-08:00Business mashupsCentral ParkEnterprise MashupsFinancial IndustrySerena SoftwareI spent last week in NYC talking about mashups to a number of customers in the financial sector. I love going to NY, and last week the weather was beautiful and all the designer dogs were out in force in Central Park. The outlook from our financial institution clients wasn’t quite so perfect, however.Here’s the message I heard over and over again: Mashups in the financial industry were only good http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/04/mashups-in-financial-arent-just-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-9117059696708830456Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:15:00 +00002008-04-04T14:43:01.502-07:00Business mashupsEnterprise MashupsEnterprise Web 2.0MillenialsSecuritySerena SoftwareOK, I admit I wrote that title to see if I could trick some people into reading this post. But really, I will actually compare the two. My motivation is a recent article by Linda Tucci, a writer for SearchCIO.com. It made me smile because it was about how millennials don't respect organizational, hierarchical or other boundaries. These millennials are going to cause security headaches because http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/04/smoking-pot-and-stealing-music-some.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-3301678576565598548Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:12:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:43.077-08:00BPMBusiness mashupsEnterprise MashupsMashup GovernanceSerena SoftwareSOA GovernanceBack what seams a very long time ago, but was actually only October last year, I wrote a post suggesting that BPM was another form of business mashup. Like-minded blogger Sandy Kemsley agreed, and bemoaned the lack of mashup understanding in the BPM community.I've kept an eye on the BPM community looking for activity around mashups. I've seen a few comments around the edges, but nothing I would http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/04/can-i-take-back-what-i-said-about-bpm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-8058058226908668947Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:10:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:43.665-08:00Business mashupsDapperEnterprise MashupsSerena SoftwareI haven't done a review in a while, so I thought I'd get back into it, starting with Dapper. I came across them in a Hinchcliffe blog entry about the most promising mashup tools. He had Dapper on the list, along with other more well-known tools such as JackBe, who still won't let me test their product.Dapper allows developers to pull content from websites and expose them using various APIs. Therehttp://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/03/dapper-has-lot-of-promise-but-boy-can.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-2926316312580242926Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:51:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:44.263-08:00Business mashupsCarrIT AlignmentSerena SoftwareWeb 2.0It’s been a while since I wrote in this blog. I’ve had a lot of things happen, so I hope you will all forgive me. First, Marketing decided they couldn’t afford a pet nerd any more, so I had to find another job. I can’t blame them. They’ve let me run wild for a year, reading and writing and playing with software. How many people get to do their dream job for even a year?Serena’s professional http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/03/reports-of-its-death-are-greatly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-70117657596160370Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:07:00 +00002008-02-07T09:30:57.326-08:00Business mashupsDion HinchcliffeEnterprise MashupsmashupsRSSSerena SoftwareI just finished reading a post by Patty Seybold in her Outside Innovation blog. In this post she bemoans the looming mashup hype, but notes that it's about time mashups enter the mainstream.Too true. Seybold goes on to say that mashup vendors are trying to convince potential customers that they don't need IT. In Seybold's words, these vendors are saying, You don't have to wait for your IT http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-run-around-crowd-cant-bypass-need.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-1129153628590400264Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +00002008-02-06T14:50:07.948-08:00Business mashupsEnterprise MashupsSerena SoftwareWeb 2.0Let me start out by congratulating Encanvas. They have joined JackBe in the illustrious group of mashup vendors who won’t let me review their mashup tools for this blog. Here’s what they had to say when I asked.As Serena is a close competitor to Encanvas I’m not sure that would be appropriate but we have the greatest admiration for any organization that is encouraging agile computing and it’s http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-2008-predictions-from-unnamed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-4223359034911401124Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:07:00 +00002008-01-22T15:38:44.350-08:00Big SOABusiness mashupsEnterprise MashupseWeekGeorge CarlinSOA ConsumersIn Paul Callahan’s recent eWeek article he lists ten mistakes companies make when they implement SOA Projects. It’s a pretty good list, and I’ll summarize it here, but I’d like to do some tweaking.Do you remember George Carlin explaining how the Ten Commandments could be boiled down to two, with another added for good measure? If not go take a look. That’s what I think about this list. It isn’t http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-would-george-carlin-say-about-ten.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-2988531125066504757Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:32:00 +00002008-01-16T18:53:04.601-08:00Business mashupsMashup GovernanceSerena SoftwareSOA GovernanceZapThinkI usually agree with David Linthicum of ZapThink when he writes about SOA. He understands the problems faced by organizations moving to SOA-based applications development. He gets that organizations need to put governance in place to avoid SOA turning into merely A Bunch of Services. (ABOS) I'm a fan.But I think his recent article on mashup governance in the SOA Institute newsletter was off the http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/linthicum-on-mashup-governanceover-top.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-5176230070189989805Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:06:00 +00002008-01-15T12:58:24.927-08:00Big SOABusiness mashupsGuerrilla SOASerena SoftwareZapThinkContinuing in my series on the 2008 mashup predictions made by others, I'd like to talk about a recent ZapThink article by Jason Bloomberg. He makes several predictions about the future of SOA in 2008, to include the sale of ZapThink itself. I won't comment on the acquisition discussion except to say that it seems a bit odd for ZapThink to tack up a For Sale sign like that. I can only guess they http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/zapthink-predictions-for-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-9054183362684381484Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:12:00 +00002008-12-10T05:44:44.624-08:00Business mashupsPortalsSerena Software You can tell just by looking at this guy how excited he is about mashups. Energy and excitement just rolls off his picture in waves.Really, Tim's a great guy, and spoke to India's Express Computer about business mashups. The gist is that organizations have too many portals and too many applications that suck up too much of IT's operating budget.The benefits of aggregation into a portal are lost http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-man-excited-about-mashups.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-8358357240877789893Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:27:00 +00002008-01-10T16:31:39.796-08:00Big SOABusiness mashupsMashup GovernanceSerena SoftwareSOA GovernanceWOAWelcome to Part 2 of my series on 2008 mashup predictions made by Dave Chappell and Dion Hinchcliffe. In Part 1 I discussed how both are predicting the end of Big SOA. If you are interested, read the original posts and circle back to my comments. If you aren’t interested in the death of Big SOA, but are interested in mashup governance, read on.Both Chappell and Hinchcliffe note that organizationshttp://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/hinchcliffe-and-chappell-predictions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-2122368505022200343Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:24:00 +00002008-01-11T11:03:25.645-08:00Big SOABusiness mashupsDave ChappellDion HinchcliffeEnterprise MashupsGuerrilla SOASerena SoftwareIt's that time of year again. Everyone is writing their predictions for 2008. Some are bullish, some bearish, some worth reading, some not. Of the myriad predictions out there, I like the ones written by Dave Chappell and Dion Hinchcliffe the best. I almost completely agree with everything they have to say. However because I don't completely agree, it gives me an excuse to write.I suggest you http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/hinchcliffes-2008-predictions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-112840705603893181Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-01-04T09:19:57.624-08:00Business mashupscoopetitionfrenemiesfroesJohn DonneSerena SoftwareI’ve had a nice long break over the holidays but now it’s time to roll up my sleeves, gird my loins and otherwise prepare to get back to work. And what better subject to start off the new year than turning enemies into friends, working with foes or partnering with competitors?Gwyneth Dwyer has posted on this very subject. Back in the 90s we called it co-opetition. The new terms are frenemies and http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2008/01/mashup-vendors-need-to-work-with-our.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-5771142820301963146Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:07:00 +00002007-12-07T15:40:57.310-08:00Business mashupsSerena SoftwareSOBAZapThinkJason Bloomberg, a ZapThink analyst, is planning to hold a session at SOAWorld 2008, where he will discuss the need for mashup governance when developing Service-oriented business applications. (SOBAs) I won't be at his session, or even at the conference, but I read what looks like his abstract in the press.Bloomberg's conclusion: mashups need governance, and here's why.Way back in the day, when http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/12/bloomberg-says-mashups-need-governance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-571989163996672084Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:04:00 +00002007-12-05T11:26:20.537-08:00BPMBusiness mashupDapperdata mashupEnterprise 2.0Enterprise Web 2.0HIMSJackBeNExaWebpresentation mashupSerena Mashup ComposerSerena SoftwareWeb 2.0Today I read a post by ebiz blogger Keith Harrison-Broninski about Mashups and process. He took a look at mashups from two perspectives represented by mashup tool vendors JackBe and NexaWeb.(As an aside, do you think JackBe allowed him to evlauate their tool? Readers will remember that JackBe declined to let me evaluate Presto, as I've noted here and here.)I'm in the middle of evaluating Dapper, http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/12/business-mashups-already-are-process.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-6460810191810625490Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:38:00 +00002007-11-30T12:42:10.327-08:00Business mashupsEnterprise 2.0Web 2.0In a recent post, Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee discussed findings published earlier in Andy Dornan's Business Week article about the perceived value of Web 2.0 technologies within enterprises. I've already commented on Dornan's article, and won't do so again, but I do want to comment on McAfee's insights relating to Business Week's findings.Those of you who have already read http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/11/whats-true-for-blogs-and-wikis-is-true.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-26860098590545897Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:22:00 +00002007-11-30T07:54:17.703-08:00ActiveGridBusiness mashupCogheaddata mashupSerena SoftwareA colleague of mine last week suggested that I review Coghead as a mashup assembly platform. I've been spending the week with them and can conclude that they are neither a good nor a bad mashup platform. In fact, they aren't a mashup platform at all.Coghead allow its users to construct simple web applications based on a back-end database. Both the application and the database are hosted by http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/11/coghead-lets-you-build-simple-web-apps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-3969668289007239571Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:21:00 +00002007-11-16T14:44:53.598-08:00Business mashupFake Steve JobsJackBeSerena SoftwareI'm not one to hold a grudge. Hey, when JackBe said I couldn't download and try their software, I understood. I didn't like it, but I understood.But let's play fair here.Someone from JackBe has downloaded Serena Mashup Composer. If I were Fake Steve I might have a field day talking about how, now that they've had a chance to dig into Composer, JackBe must be crying like a girl. If I were Fake http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/11/have-fun-with-mashup-composer-jackbe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665211066607667427.post-9110765085577078252Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:48:00 +00002007-11-15T16:07:28.038-08:00ActiveGridbusiness analystBusiness mashupIntel Mash MakerKapowRoboMakerSerena SoftwareOne of the top two leading industry analyst firms has been talking for several months about how software applications are brittle, difficult to maintain and aren't architected to keep up with the fast-paced demands of today's business environment. That's not new news. It isn't even old news. What is news is that now we have analysts saying out loud what we've all known for quite a while: custom http://businessmashup.blogspot.com/2007/11/who-will-be-business-mashers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaw)0