Mashups in Action: Stories from the Global Mashup Developer Community

We are approaching the 1-year anniversary of JackBe's Mashup Developer Community. When the big date comes I expect we'll have over 3,000 members. That's 3,000 'Mashups in Action' stories eager to be told. As you would expect from such a big group of people, the goals of our Mashup Developer Community members are very, very diverse. And there are many lessons to be learned from their stories.

Our members come from 5 continents (43 countries) and all 50 US states. They use Java (54%) and .NET (33%). They are focused on Web development (17%), SOA (17%), Portals (5%) and a bunch of other technology initiatives. They are CIOs, Application Developers, Systems Integrators, and many other titles and roles. They work in Government, Finance, Higher Education, Healthcare, and lots of other industries. Their one common thread is the use of mashups in their day-to-day work.

We've started an informal catalog of the many ways in which our community members are using enterprise mashups in their organizations. Here are a few of my favorites (with monor edits to protect the privacy of our community members)...

...a project for a bank to help them understand how their company is performing globally and be able to make quick decisions.

...how [JackBe's] Presto works with the BackBase Platform...building a portal and needs sophisticated mashup like you have done for [a government website].

...GIS Manager moving to a web mapping environment that uses mash-ups and widgets.

...has a sophisticated data warehouse portal and would like to provide some simplified tools for the public to use to explore data. Integration with some mapping tools, hang out some RSS and GeoRSS feeds for folks to subscribe too, etc.

...using mashups to bridge the gap between small businesses and the internet and the mobile web...a good fit in these data federation – data integration efforts.

But there are a lot more stories. An entire planet of them. Every point on the map below is a Mashup Developer Community member doing cool enterprise mashup work. Some have detailed stories behind them and some are interesting simply because of their locale:

View Where in the World are our Mashers? in a larger map

Enterprise Mashups are showing value in many ways we would have never thought possible just a year ago. That's the REAL story.

What's your story? We'd love to have you join our global mashup conversation.