PRESTO^®: Powering the Enterprise App Store

"At the end of the day, it's about getting from point A to point B quicker than everybody else."
- Rollin Ford, CIO, Wal-Mart

Speed is power. The rapid pace of change means a modern organization’s competitive advantage is less about standardized processes and instead comes from the ability to handle change, collaborate and make quality decisions rapidly. You need more targeted information than the ‘one size fits all’ information from your existing applications. You need to find a way to give your users the power to radically optimize the way they get information.

The Presto Solution: Power and Freedom through Enterprise Apps

The Presto Platform empowers application developers and power users to create, customize and share Enterprise Apps mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Presto provides a solution for every part of the Enterprise App lifecycle, from Services to Mashups to Apps to the App Store, while also meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Equally important, Presto empowers your high-value employees to take advantage of your organization’s information assets - large applications like ERP, CRM, and SFA - and quickly marry them with external data sources such as Web services and news feeds to make better decisions from this disparate information.

Enterprise Apps Benefit Your Decision-Makers

Users in enterprises that leverage the Presto Platform have seen many benefits including:

Better Decisions through Better Information - Presto provides faster, easier, and flexible access to business data, benefiting business users through increased self-sufficiency and better ROI from their data. The bottom line is faster, better-informed decisions that improve business results.

Faster Answers through User Empowerment - Presto addresses the longstanding 'IT bottleneck' by empowering business users to easily assemble their own 'situational applications' in response to ever-changing business requirements.

Simpler Information Access through Easy-to-Use Tools - Presto Enterprise Mashups enables end users and developers to create enterprise mashups with faster time-to-use, and vastly improved usability and flexibility over traditional application development approaches. Presto includes a Web-based environment with access to IT-governed SOA services and other cataloged enterprise data sources, pre-defined external (third-party) services, and user interface objects that bind directly to the data.

To learn more about the benefits of Presto for Decision-Makers, go to 'Apps & Mashups for Executives'.

Enterprise Apps Benefit Your Information Technology Team

IT staff in enterprises that leverage the Presto Platform have seen many benefits including:

Removes Ad-Hoc Business Needs from the IT 'To-Do' List- Presto Enterprise Mashups free IT from its never-ending struggle to handle all the requests for new applications coming from line-of-business groups-which are seldom satisfied because demands are always greater than available development resources.

Allows IT to Maintain Enterprise Governance - Presto Enterprise Mashups allow IT to retain the ability to govern, secure, and manage enterprise infrastructure and data assets-and gives it more time to devote to other critical IT missions.

Accelerates Use & Adoption of Re-usable IT assets - Presto Enterprise Mashups create a true 'services consumer', putting a face on services from sources like SOAs that allows end users to quickly and flexibly leverages services and data within actionable business applications.

To learn more about the benefits of Presto for IT, go to 'Apps & Mashups for Developers'.

Presto delivers these benefits through features like easy service-enablement, visual and declarative approaches to mashup- and App-creation, enterprise-grade security and governance features, and a familiar App Store interface for easy App sharing and collaboration.

To try live mashup-driven Enterprise Apps, go to the Presto Demos page. To learn more about Enterprise Apps and Mashups, visit JackBe TV.

Learn More about Presto

The Presto Enterprise Platform empowers application developers and power users to create, customize and share dynamic information with your Enterprise. Here are a few resources for you to learn more:

• Watch our July 2010 “Power and Freedom Through Enterprise Apps” webcast on how Enterprise Apps benefit your organization.
• Try live Enterprise Apps on the Presto Demos page.
• Watch Enterprise Apps and Mashups in action, visit JackBe TV.
• Join our Mashup Developer Community to start creating your own Enterprise Apps.
• Contact us!