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The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Deploys JackBe Presto for ResearcherID Mashups

Mashups enable dynamic preview of community data; Mashlets are deployed by community users to blogs and websites around the world in weeks

Chevy Chase, MD - August 12, 2008 - JackBe, the leading provider of enterprise mashup software, today announced that the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has implemented Presto mashups and mashlets to expand the reach and usefulness of its scientific community portal, ResearcherID.

ResearcherID (http://www.researcherid.com/) is a global, multi-disciplinary, scholarly research community that helps members and visitors find and review professional profiles, publication listings, citations, and potential collaborators.  Thomson Reuters selected JackBe to create syndicated mashups and mashup widgets known as ‘mashlets’ to extend the professional community into individual blogs and websites, improving the ways for users to find and consume the professional publication data of ResearcherID community members.

JackBe Presto’s was used to create dynamic, user-specific mashups of the researcher’s biography, their published research, and demographic views of third-party citations of their research.  Researcher mashlets include a portable and sharable mashup widget that allows ResearcherID community members to quickly embed thumbnail summaries of their ResearcherID profile into their personal blog, portal or website. Each mashlet gives a small dynamic preview of the data from the community that is dynamically rendered and directs visitors back to the complete researcher profile in the ResearcherID community.

“We work with researchers and engineers who insist on  having a user-friendly solution.  The mashups and mashlets enabled by JackBe’s Presto have made things very easy for our community users,” said Brian Wilson, Chief Architect, Scientific business of Thomson Reuters.  “This is a great example of a Web 2.0 technology improving data sharing and collaboration.  In particular, the mashlets are easy to create and use, which is why in a very short period of time they have been widely embraced by our research community.”

Within weeks of the initial implementation, the ResearcherID mashlets have been deployed to hundreds of individual blogs and websites around the world.  The viral success of the ResearcherID mashlets is due in part to the community itself: the mashlets are user-driven and can be created and managed without the help of any technical support.  In addition to the mashlets, JackBe assisted Thomson Reuters in providing two additional mashup-fueled collaborative views for ResearcherID members: the Collaboration Network and the Citing Articles Network.  Both provide global views of professional research and the references and citations of that research around the world.

“What Thomson Reuters is doing gets to the heart of JackBe’s value proposition – enterprise-spanning data collaboration,” said John Crupi, CTO of JackBe.  “With the help of Presto mashups and mashlets, Thomson Reuters has made its data more fluid, making it easy for non-technical users to fashion their own information and then share that personalized data with peers.  And it is all done in a matter of minutes.”

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 provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months.  For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.