"Enterprise technology is encountering a 'perfect storm' of SOA, mashups, and widgets that are converging to finally allow the business to address their most dynamic information needs. And enterprise mashup platforms like Presto 2.0 are an integral part of that solution" said John Crupi, CTO at JackBe, in a statement released by the company. "Presto 2.0 greatly expands the speed, scale, and scope of information use and re-use within the enterprise. Presto Mashlets alone make Presto 2.0 worth looking at, but we went much further, bringing mashups and mashlets to every major tool in use by business user and developers."
Presto Wires, a visual mashup development tool, is featured in version 2.0 along with Presto Connector for Excel, for consuming mashups in Excel and publishing mashup-ready Excel spreadsheets.
Kapow Technologies will show off Kapow OnDemand on Tuesday, providing a hosted service for building enterprise mashup applications that provide structured "Web intelligence," the company said.
Based on the Kapow Mashup Server, Kapow OnDemand offers access to underlying data sources and services to be mashed. Users also can import Web data into existing applications and IT infrastructure via XML.
OnDemand features a "Robot Designer" to construct custom Web harvesting feeds and services in a role-based execution runtime, the company said. Monitoring and management tools also are featured.
Deployed on a commercial-grade grid, OnDemand provides a secure service featuring load balancing, high availability, failover, and automated backup and restore, Kapow said.
Users can access a visual scripting environment for building services and feeds that automate collection and delivery of Web intelligence.
Pricing for Kapow OnDemand is based on a subscription with prices starting at US$3,400 per month.
Kapow also is announcing Kapow Connector for Excel, enabling Excel spreadsheet users to use Web services that provide data directly to their spreadsheet. The connector is used in combination with Kapow OnDemand or Kapow Mashup Server Web 2.0 edition. Users can analyze Web intelligence on their desktop.