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A mashup is a lightweight application that combines data from more than one source into a integrate,new and useful experience.The term mashup encompasses both data and presentation mashups.We can see it at following image:

“iGoogle” is kind of mashup application and it makes users customize their Google home page.Mushup not only used in we applications but also in intranet. Jstart is such a team from IBM provides smarter,faster and better services to enterprise and organizations with mashup.

Let’s take a look at how Jstart team works:

Natural disaster often leave perimeters of destruction that hamper emergency personnel who are trying to help victims. With basic services shut down,it’s difficult even know if a nearby airport is operational. And if it’s available, can it handle large planes shipping supplies to the affected area?

When this scenario played out during hurricanes, Boeing’s emergency management customers need this answer in one place to response effectively. The aerospace giant turned to the Internet and IBM’s Emerging Technology jStart team for answers.

Team members from jStart coordinate weather reports and airport location(color coded by availability and distance) on one screen, with more details selected by users. Boeing now are shares a single source of information with its equipments suppliers and other government emergency response agencies.

The IBM jStart team turned a prototype, built in 10 days, into a tool that then Boeing adopted.

In a even astonishing more astonishing case, it took a mere eight hours for Vladimir to build a widget for security surveillance video in Cisco’s Video System for Business. The mashup stung together digital video, Sametime and Excel, allowing guards and other company personnel to share,search and chat about any of their camera feeds.