Mashing different Web services togetherAdd to Sep. 25, 2007 Yesterday, JackBe demonstrated Presto Wires, a visual enterprise mashup composer for Web services, at the AJAX World conference in Santa Clara, CA. JackBe's new tool functions with the company's Presto Edge mashup server, which offers secure access to disparate data and Web services.  Users of Presto Wires, who would be business analysts as well as developers and programmers, can integrate services via a drag-and-drop workflow. These could be Web services based on REST, WSDL, RSS and SOAP, as well as other Web services produced from SOA infrastructures. Overall, various services can be gathered from such sources as RSS feeds, maps from Google, and research data. Chor-Ching Fan, v.p. of product management at JackBe said "Presto Wires gives enterprise users the ability to mash these different Web services together with minimal or no support from IT, with all the security and governance that larger enterprises expect." For its part, JackBe defines mashups as applications integrating two or more data services and allowing users to specify how the data is mashed up, such as stipulating how columns of data are to be joined together. Fan added "the main benefit of mashups is to allow business units to solve ad hoc business issues. Presto Wires can access a large variety of Web services and integrate them with internal data sources to look for business opportunities.  Presto allows enterprises, including business units and non-technical people, to leverage SOA investments and combine data sets and business rules, according to JackBe. Fan also added that "many enterprises have made major investments into SOA, and they cannot deliver the value and benefits of SOA without allowing the business units to do mashups on their own." "Presto Wires can take advantage of SOA investments made in the past five to ten years," said Fan. An analyst compared Presto Wires to Yahoo technology. "JackBe's Presto Wires resembles data mashup construction environments like Yahoo Pipes, which is focused on the consumer Internet space," said analyst Vishwanath Venugopalan of The 451 Group. He added "Yahoo Pipes operates almost entirely on syndicated Internet data feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) Presto Wires offers business users a chance to expand the scope of these data mashups to traditional enterprise data sources such as spreadsheets and Web services." While JackBe leverages AJAX to the fullest for more intuitive, user-friendly mashup creation, no programming is required however. Users can simply drag and drop objects. Presto Wires isn't cheap however. It carries a list price of $40,000 per CPU. Add to Source: InfoWorld  Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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