Apps & Mashups for Developers

Development demands never stop growing

As an enterprise application developer, you have some thorny problems. Your backlog is huge. Your department is expected to fulfill all of your organization’s major application development needs but these ever-growing application demands are coupled with steadily shrinking budgets, growing legacy system maintenance needs, and an ever-growing list of ‘special requests’ for unique information.

As if that isn't enough, your systems are disconnected and surrounded by security requirements that make your work even harder. Traditional application development and integration toolsets are simply too slow to help you address your workload, unable to deal with rapidly-changing situations, expanding data sets, and the specialized needs of small groups of users.

You need an agile, adaptable application development technique that leverages existing systems, and one that lets you engage the business user in the process.

A dynamic solution can help you with your backlog

JackBe’s Enterprise App Store enables you and your tech-savvy business users to rapidly find, build, customize and share context-appropriate Apps. And JackBe's Enterprise App creation tools enables a more productive division of labor between you and the business users: you can focus on data access, security configuration, and the deployment of complex Apps while your business users independently address their situation-specific needs with just-in-time Apps. Ultimately, users get answers quickly.

In addition, Enterprise Apps can give your IT organization many additional benefits like reduced costs, improved portability, better asset utilization, easier compliance with standards:

• Reduce application development costs and improve your delivery time. Apps bring together data directly from the sources, reducing overhead. And Apps can have any format and layout your users need, even letting them choose the more advanced personalization options themselves. All this means your App-making is faster and costs less.
• Publish dynamic information anywhere in your organization safely. Enterprise Apps let you securely deliver your Apps directly to the places your users want to see their data, including spreadsheets, portals, desktops, and mobile phones.
• Deliver Better ROI from your SOA, legacy data sources and custom applications. Enterprise Apps improve your data reuse because they are easy and safe to consume programmatically, regardless of your development toolset (Ajax, .NET, Java, etc.). And every App you create instantly becomes another standardized, secure data source for all you future Apps.
• Leverage data standards and ensure best practices. Enterprise Apps make your application data sources easier to consume by standardizing and securing any type of data into standards including REST, SOAP and RSS. And Enterprise Apps have collaborative features that simplify tagging, rating, commenting, and sharing.

Enterprise Apps can transform your data silos into accessible data sources, enable the rapid assembly of relevant answers, deliver your information to wherever you want to use it, and make it easy for you to share your results with your peers and partners.

You can find more whitepapers, articles, videos and live demos on our News, Videos, and Demos pages. And, of course, you can always bring your enterprise mashup questions, requests, and suggestions to JackBe via Twitter, Facebook, our blogs, or a direct email. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!