Presto Enterprise Mashup Server

Service Virtualization, Security and Collaboration

Unlocking Information through Enterprise Mashups

"The monetary impact on the organization of wasted time is anything but small. For instance, an organization employing 1,000 knowledge workers loses $5.7 million annually just in the time wasted by employees having to reformat information as they move among applications." - IDC 2006.

Over many decades enterprises have made significant investments in legacy applications, ERP, CRM, SFA, custom databases, and web applications. Enterprise Mashups empower high-value employees to take advantage of all of these information assets - and quickly marry them with external data sources such as Web services and news feeds - to make better decisions from this disparate information.

The Presto Mashup Server is a flexible enterprise mashup server that provides users and developers with secure and consolidated access to disparate data from internal services, external services, and application databases. With The Presto Mashup Server, users can meet many of their information needs with intelligent features for access to disparate data & information, self-service problem solving in real time, and collaboration with other mashup users.

An Enterprise-Grade Mashup Solution

The majority of today's information services are not in a state that is consumable, or 'mashable', by users - whether they are SOA-based services or data trapped behind inadequate or non-existent interfaces. The Presto Mashup Server turning these services into mashup-ready virtual services that are easy for end-users to access, mash and share. Equally important, The Presto Mashup Server allows IT to retain the ability to govern, secure, and manage enterprise infrastructure and data assets while proving this virtual service access.

Specifically, problems solved by by Presto Server's service virtualization include:

Problem
Solution
Easy information access
The Presto Mashup Server empowers business users with the information they need, when they need it.
Real-time decision making The Presto Mashup Server empowers users to locate, access, and mashup data according to changing business needs
Collaboration and information sharing The Presto Mashup Server facilitates the sharing of mashups through trusted collaboration between users and partners
Service anarchy The Presto Mashup Server ensures that mashups meet the toughest enterprise governance and security requirements

The bottom line is simple: The Presto Mashup Server enterprise mashups allow enterprises to align IT with the needs of the business by enabling true partnerships between the business units and IT. It shifts responsibility for the business use of IT assets into the business unit while maintaining centralized IT governance of those information assets including definition, security, and processes.