Anthony Bradley

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If You Don’t Reward Sharing and Reuse, You won’t Succeed with Web 2.0 or SOA

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  June 16, 2009  |  3 Comments

I cover how enterprises can build better IT solutions by capitalizing on Web 2.0 and SOA. The common thread here is really on gaining better sharing including both content and capability sharing. SOA, social solutions, cloud, and mashups all demand sharing and reuse. You’ll never achieve significant success in any of them without developing a [...]

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You Can’t Build a Business Case for Enterprise Mashups

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  June 11, 2009  |  7 Comments

OK, now it is starting to seem gratuitous after my post titled “You Can’t Build a Business Case for Social Software.” But I do actually have a point. Like social software, you can’t build a universal business case for mashups but need to examine how you can apply mashups to gain business value. In other [...]

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There is No Such Thing as a Data Mashup

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 13, 2009  |  12 Comments

I feel compelled to step in voice my concern over the drifting of the term mashup. I’m not sure why I felt that mashups would not undergo the typical hype expansion other terms experience when the bandwagon begins to roll. I think much of my initial belief stemmed from the fact that mashups came from [...]

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Mashups, Business Intelligence, and Automobile Visibility

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  March 20, 2009  |  4 Comments

I’m just returning from a few days of travel in the Washington DC area where I met with or presented to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Social Security Administration (SSA), and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on mashups, SOA, WOA, and cloud computing. I also spent some quality time with the leadership team of mashup [...]

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Best Buy Becoming Mashable to Extend Their Web Presence

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  January 28, 2009  |  Comments Off

This is a great article on Best Buy opening up their product and rating information through open Web APIs so third parties can use it to create mashups. For the past year I have been telling clients, and anyone else who will listen, that even though you may have the best web site in the [...]

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Mashup Companies Still Getting Funding

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 22, 2008  |  Comments Off

JackBe, a leading boutique vendor of enterprise mashup technologies recently announced a new $5 million round of funding. Mashable.com had a good article titled “RockYou Spits in Recession’s Face, Secures $17 Million in Funding” that covers some 2008 investment in public Web based mashup companies. I expected 2008 to be the year of the enterprise [...]

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The Enterprise Mashup Tribe

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 15, 2008  |  Comments Off

I just wanted to point my readers to a recent post by Luis Derechin CEO of enterprise mashup vendor JackBe. Luis does a nice job of pulling together some of the movers and shakers in the enterprise mashup space. I think this is a valuable list for those who wish to track the evolution of [...]

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Talking Operational Intelligence with Kapow

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 8, 2008  |  2 Comments

Kapow hooked me into lunch today at the AADI conference (where I am presenting for the majority of the week). They hooked me by showing me a mashup for the iPhone they had built (using their technology) that scrapes the Gartner AADI conference site to deliver a handheld based Gartner agenda management application. I’ve got [...]

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What do mashups and scantily clad models have in common?

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  November 26, 2008  |  4 Comments

A friend, fellow techophile, and relative of mine Jeremy Cameron (founder of Simple Solutions Inc.) alerted me to Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit mashup capability. It is fantastic! Take a look but realize it might be a time sink What does this swimsuit mashup have to do with me and my enterprise you ask? This is a perfect [...]

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Enterprise Mashups and The MacGyver Principle

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  November 20, 2008  |  6 Comments

An enterprise mashup capability normally involves a library of developer provided “mashable” components (gadgets and widgets for example), that are assembled and re-assembled by other developers or end-users to rapidly deliver highly flexible applications. Mashups are about building applications that change as fast as the business situation demands.   Using mashups end users can build [...]

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