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JackBe Named a “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing

Chevy Chase, MD and Fremont, CA - March 26, 2009 - JackBe the leading provider of enterprise mashup software, has been named a company to watch in the “Cool Vendors in Web Technologies, 2009” report issued by Gartner, a leading independent technology research firm. JackBe believes this recognition reinforces the market’s need for robust Web 2.0 applications that enables Fortune 500 organizations to access relative information across different enterprise systems to make faster, more informed decisions.

JackBe’s acknowledgment underscores the need for organizations to continue to adopt and utilize Web 2.0 solutions such as enterprise mashups. The company’s flagship product, Presto gives global organizations the ability to unlock and connect internal and external data sources ultimately generating new contextual information in sharable formats. Mashups can be shared across the web in wikis, blogs, portals and mobile devices.

Today’s current economic conditions motivate organizations to look for intuitive, cost effective, Web-enabled solutions that allow them to improve decision-making through situational intelligence solutions, mashup-driven dashboards, and ERP/CRM application extensions. JackBe’s Presto is helping leading organizations like the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Inttra and Thomson Scientific collect, analyze and display dynamic information for deeper contextual insight.

"JackBe is very excited to be selected as a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’. In my opinion, this distinction strengthens the value of our technology by enabling organizations to solve demanding business challenges with the necessary security and governance,” said Luis Derechin, co-founder and CEO of JackBe. “We are seeing more and more businesses recognize the benefits achieved with our enterprise mashup platform, realizing mashups are a faster, more cost-effective way of solving today’s business challenges."

JackBe will be demonstrating Presto at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA from March 31 thru April 3 in booth #436. For more information, please visit www.jackbe.com.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About JackBe

JackBe delivers trusted mashup software that empowers organizations to create, customize and collaborate through enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Our innovative Enterprise Mashup platform, Presto, provides dynamic mashups that leverage internal and external data while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto is a DoDIIS-certified Protection Level 3 (PL3) solution for government situational awareness applications. For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.