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Rescue Me From Excel

As a leading provider of enterprise mashup software, we've noticed quite a few re-occurring mashup themes and one we hear loud and clear is 'rescue my trapped data from excel'. We've found today's average knowledge worker is pulling data from their CRM system, the web, HR systems and other siloed applications to then combine and manipulate this data in excel. Leaving collaboration to email and the end result; to multiple versions of spreadsheets that live on the user's desktop.

Enterprise mashups can bring new life to this tried and true business application. Enterprise mashups put dynamic, secure data collaboration in the hands of spreadsheet-driven knowledge workers, improving decision speed and business results. The Presto Connector for Excel automates the sharing of spreadsheet information between Excel and JackBe’s award-winning enterprise mashup platform, Presto.

The Presto Connector for Excel lets spreadsheet users publish their information as secure, sharable mashup services into the ‘mashup cloud' then lets these same users consume existing mashups from the mashup cloud directly into their spreadsheets. Presto allows IT to monitor, secure, and govern these interactions in a way that meets the toughest corporate and government data governance policies. Try it for yourself, register to download a trial version of Presto and unchain your data from Excel.

Enterprise Mashups in the News

This month we welcome new platforms to the market and continue to support success models for mashup development.

•  Web 2.0 Journal: SOA: Preparing for Mashups-  'The best approach to SOA / mashup synergy is to design and deploy the first-generation SOA with the mashups in mind.'
•  IT Week: Enterprises embrace Web 2.0- Read on to learn how insurance companies are using mashups to deliver significant benefits by pulling data from numerous data sources to improve risk assessments for insurance projects.
• Capgemini: Building Services to Enterprise Quality- With the new nature of dynamic ad-hoc applications like mashups and mashlets, a 'build to change' model becomes increasingly more important to measure success later.
• ComputerWorld: Microsoft, other firms take aim at Enterprise 2.0 market with new tools- Last month we welcomed IBM to the party and this month we welcome Microsoft, now that's market validation. 

To read more about the Enterprise Mashup space and all the latest happenings, click here.

Summer Webinar Series, 'Learning from the Experts'

It's not enough to say, the experts are saying it too; Forrester research recently predicted, 'the Web 2.0 market will be a 4.6 billion dollar industry by the year 2013.' but where do mashups fit into your enterprise?

To help better define what enterprise mashups mean to you, we have gathered some notable industry experts to speak on our summer webinar series, 'Learning from the Experts' Join us on July 23rd at 12pm EST as we host, Zapthink's Jason Bloomberg and our own VP of product marketing, Chor-Ching Fan as they debate mashup use cases for SOA. 

Enterprises want SOAs that achieve measurable business benefits. Without bringing SOA to the end user, results can be limited and ROI can be difficult to measure. Publishing performance metrics through micro-dashboards to customers and partners are one measurable way to bring SOA to the user. This is a fast-growing approach to building enterprise mashup applicatons in combination with SOA and enterprise widgets. Register now to see how this killer mashup use case can help you achieve the results you expect from your SOA investment.

Wannna Get Your Hands Dirty?

Join us on July 22nd at Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World where JackBe's CTO, John Crupi will instruct a 'Hands-On Mashuppalooza' class. Everyone knowswhat a mashup is but few have actually created them within an enterprise context. How do you incorporate SAP apps, Oracle apps, or homegrown apps into a mashup? What are the common security issues that need to be addressed when creating and sharing mashups? What is a proper architecture for mashups within an enterprise?

This 90-minute hands-on session will give attendees the experience of creating enterprise mashups ready for the enterprise. This class will include tutorials on service virtualization of various data source types, mashup creation, mashup collaboration, and publishing a mashup into common destinations like Rich Internet Applications, and portals as well as other topics. If you'll be in Chicago on July 21st through the 24th and want to learn more about how to build enterprise class mashups from a recognized mashup expert then please join us in JackBe's 'Mashuppalooza' class.