Easier, Safer Enterprise Mashups

The Spring 2009 Edition of Presto 2.7 is now available for download. The enhanced features of Presto 2.7 makes mashups easier and safer to use by allowing a broader group of business users to visually create mashups quickly and safely.  Major enhancements to Presto 2.7 include:

• a more intuitive, user-focused update of Wires, the Presto Visual Mashup Composer, for easier mashup creation,
• improved Mashup Macros in Wires, letting you add custom mashup transformations that do what you want them to,
• security enhancements that detect and deny malicious code from public data sources, for safer mashups,
• extended browser support, including IE6, IE7, Firefox 3.0, and the Safari 4 Beta, making mashup creation even more accessible. 

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  Let me tell you a story about a hero.  Mike Rollins is a systems engineer supporting a research effort for the Department of Homeland Security, which has received a $4.3 million grant and a lot of attention.  Needless to say, Mike and his organization have some very important problems they are trying to solve.  

Mashups help Mike with his problems in a very meaningful way.   As Mike put it in a recent blog, 'a buddy of mine pointed me in the direction of a product called Presto...it puts us months, if not years, ahead of where we were'.  

 Mashups certainly make Mike a hero at work.  Which also makes him a Mashup Hero to us.  And Mike’s passion has inspired us to help more others like him. [Read More...]