We're Certified (and It's All Thanks to Microsoft)

As the leader in the Enterprise Mashup space, we work hard everyday to expand the scope and value of our platform as we solve critical business challenges. One very active area of interest is mashing information to/from Microsoft applications like SharePoint, Excel, Project, Dynamics, and SQL Server. Many of these productivity tools are ubiquitous and they contain some of the most relevant and useful information in an organization.

We have learned a lot about mashup solutions in and around Microsoft's business products in the last year or so. One great example is the synergy between Presto and Microsoft SharePoint as a best-of-breed Enterprise Mashup Solution. Interestingly, this use-case came from our customers and partners. Our blogseries "A Developer's Guide to Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint” began as a small skunkworks effort that ended in a 10-part series and Mashups for SharePoint is one of the most-popular special-interest areas in our Mashup Developer Community. That's a pretty clear message.

And now we are a Microsoft Certified Partner. What's that mean to you? In the words of JackBe's Co-Founder, Luis Derechin, it "allows our customers and partners to confidently grow their SharePoint implementations into an enterprise-wide collaboration and decision-support platform". Let me tell you what that means in practical terms.

Using our Enterprise Mashup Platform, Presto, and Microsoft SharePoint, you can pull information from Excel Spreadsheets, .Net Web Services, SQL Server (and other relational databases), SharePoint lists, REST services and RSS/Atom feeds, and non-Microsoft enterprise apps, such as Oracle Siebel, Salesforce.com, or PeopleSoft, to name just a few. For all these Microsoft and non-Microsoft information sources, you can securely consume, combine and share this information as syndicatable widgets and apps. These apps are easily surfaced as native SharePoint web parts, Java Portlets and Google gadgets to name a few, and they can be rapidly and securely published to any web friendly environment.

All this can be accomplished today, which allows for extremely powerful Enterprise Mashup Solutions for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments. But we're not done yet. As the guy in charge of our SharePoint integration efforts, I can tell you confidently that the future is very bright when it comes to Enterprise Mashups in the Microsoft SharePoint space...so stay tuned for more big things from JackBe in the near future!

And you can always check out the latest Mashup for SharePoint demos, videos, how-to guides and sample code on JackBe's Mashups for SharePoint site. Mash on!

Posted byDan Malks

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