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JackBe Named a 2009 SD Times 100 Award Winner

Powerful Presto Platform Recognized as ‘Best and Brightest’ in Mashup Category

Chevy Chase, MD - June 23, 2009 - JackBe, the leading provider of enterprise mashup software, announced today it has been recognized as a 2009 SD Times 100 award winner in the Mashups category. Presto, JackBe’s industry leading enterprise mashup platform provides real-time mashups that leverage internal and external data while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto provides knowledge workers with a 360 degree view of their organization to make faster more effective decisions.

"Receiving the SD TImes 100 award from such a highly regarded software developer news resource is a great honor," said JackBe’s Co-Founder, Luis Derechin. "This award underscores the value the enterprise development community sees in JackBe’s mashup solutions. We will continue to support enterprise developers through our Mashup Developer Community, with a free full-featured Developer Edition of Presto along with support forums and documentation."

The SD Times 100 is an annual listing of “the best and the brightest” companies and individuals in the software development industry. Each year, participants in the competition are nominated by BZ Media’s editors, as well as an expert group of writers, conference faculty and analysts, and judged by the editors of SD Times. The 2009 SD Times 100 were published in the June 15, 2009, edition of the SD Times, and also on www.sdtimes.com.

"In choosing the 2009 SD Times 100, we took a deep look at each organization's products and services, reputation in the development community, and the innovation it has brought to the industry," said Alan Zeichick, editorial director of BZ Media's SD Times. "JackBe impressed us with their ability to unite data from disparate sources while meeting stringent enterprise security and governance requirements."

Recently named a company to watch in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Web Technologies” report, JackBe has won many other awards and accolades including Intelligent Enterprise’s 2009 Editor’s Choice Award in the Enterprise Applications category and InfoWorld’s Best Enterprise Mashup Platform in 2008.

About JackBe

JackBe delivers a trusted enterprise mashup software platform that empowers government and commercial 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 provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months. JackBe, Presto, Presto Wires, Presto Visual Mashup Composer, and Mashup Macros are trademarks of JackBe. For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.

About SD Times

BZ Media LLC® (http://www.bzmedia.com) is a high-tech media company combining the best of print and Web-based publishing, offering industry-leading magazines, newspapers, Web sites and conferences.

BZ Media’s SD Times® (http://www.sdtimes.com) is the twice-monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 60,000 subscribers in 131 countries. SD Times was recognized by Media Business Magazine as the fastest-growing IT publication in 2007. For more information and a complete list of winners, visit http://sdtimes.com/content/about-sdtimes100.aspx