I am still wondering how this mashups work in a real time scenario. But this article has cleared my doubt till some extent.
As Hurricane Catrina approached the Gulf in August 2005, storm trackers at Shumacher group, Lafayette a company that manages physicians for emergency rooms consulted a vareity of information resources like weather reports, a map studded with pins representing homes of nearby doctors and a computerised phone book to make sure hospitals would be fully staffed.
Almost one month later by the time hurricane hit, the storm trackers had new software that let them see weather conditions along with locations and contact information of the area physicians overlaid on a map all on one screen.
The hurricane software took less than two days for a developer to build, thanks to a new technology called "mashups". More and more companies are adopting the same technology. Mashups essentially are a way to take data trapped in seperate software applications and combine them into new hybrid applications. Mashups however are easy to build and cheap.
IBM and Microsoft among others recently released easy to use mashup building tools. IBM in February launched QEDWiki which provides developers with a portal where they can choose which application to include in a mashup and define how they want this applications to work together.
Microsft's mashup tool Popfly work with its Sharepoint collabaration software. Google has let developers make mashups with its popular mapping software since 2005.
As Hurricane Catrina approached the Gulf in August 2005, storm trackers at Shumacher group, Lafayette a company that manages physicians for emergency rooms consulted a vareity of information resources like weather reports, a map studded with pins representing homes of nearby doctors and a computerised phone book to make sure hospitals would be fully staffed.
Almost one month later by the time hurricane hit, the storm trackers had new software that let them see weather conditions along with locations and contact information of the area physicians overlaid on a map all on one screen.
The hurricane software took less than two days for a developer to build, thanks to a new technology called "mashups". More and more companies are adopting the same technology. Mashups essentially are a way to take data trapped in seperate software applications and combine them into new hybrid applications. Mashups however are easy to build and cheap.
IBM and Microsoft among others recently released easy to use mashup building tools. IBM in February launched QEDWiki which provides developers with a portal where they can choose which application to include in a mashup and define how they want this applications to work together.
Microsft's mashup tool Popfly work with its Sharepoint collabaration software. Google has let developers make mashups with its popular mapping software since 2005.
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