I Predict a hot summer of SharePoint and Mashups

Back in February, I wrote about our Microsoft partner certification, which came about as a natural side effect of the synergy between Microsoft's SharePoint and JackBe's Presto as a best of breed Enterprise Mashup environment. I also noted that big things were soon to come in this space and wanted to take this opportunity to fill you in on some exciting new developments.

Our goal at JackBe has always been to make it easier and faster to build secure, dynamic mashups with disparate information sources. One common scenario is the desire to combine Microsoft and non-Microsoft information, such as bringing together SharePoint list data with external, non Microsoft information, such as an issue tracking system like Remedy or a CRM system, such as Oracle Siebel or SalesForce.com.

There are two sides to this equation, though, with one being the data side and the other the visualization side. We want to rapidly mash these disparate information sources that can come from anywhere (the 'data side') and to publish the resulting apps anywhere (the 'visualization' side). SharePoint is unique as it is both a source of information and a publishing destination, uniquely positioning it as part of an organization's mashup ecosystem.

In our soon to be released Presto version 3.0, we are enhancing our SharePoint mashup integration to make it even easier and quicker to mash SharePoint. As you would expect, this improved self service covers both sides of this equation, with improved capabilities both for mashing SharePoint information as well as for publishing your mashup apps in SharePoint.

Users will now have enhanced support for simple point and click access to their SharePoint list data and improved drag and drop support for utilizing this SharePoint data for building mashups in a visual, web based environment.



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