"As the complexity of service-oriented and mashup applications continues toincrease, it's critical that vendor solutions integrate seamlessly withenterprise-class systems management environments," said Jason Bloomberg,Managing Partner at ZapThink. "Kapow Mashup Server, complete withcomprehensive APIs and advanced standards support, ensures that companiescan leverage their existing enterprise systems to create new breakthroughapplications with data from inside the enterprise and on the Web."

Kapow Technologies Adds More Functionality to Create Robust Mashups andCustom Business Applications

In addition to improved enterprise manageability, Kapow Mashup Server 6.5further extends its market leadership with custom data feeds for serviceenablement and composite applications.

Now, customers can continue to innovate with web services by creating anycustom RSS feed imaginable, including ones using geography and rich media."We are impressed with the speed and ease of creating data feeds and webservices with the Kapow OnDemand product," said John Risch, CTO of FuturePoint Systems. "Kapow's robot development environment is the easiest touse and most capable web harvester IDE we've found. Compared to other toolswe reviewed, Kapow Technologies' were by far the most powerful. KapowOnDemand is a strategic business enabler for our company."

Kapow Technologies has also increased support for complex AJAX librariessuch as Prototype and JQuery. These added capabilities are in response tothe growing number of dynamic JavaScript and AJAX-powered web sites, whichare virtually impossible to extract data from without proper tools.

"No other mashup server solution on the market today provides as manypossibilities for data feeds, web services and composite applications asKapow Mashup Server," said Stefan Andreasen, Founder and CTO of KapowTechnologies. "We are enabling our customers to harness this new class ofcomplex, unstructured data by working ahead of the curve to supportadvanced standards such as RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON, WADL and WSDL."

All editions of Kapow Mashup Server version 6.5 are available now. Clickhere for more information, and afull list of new features and improvements. Product pricing is based on aflexible subscription offering.

About Kapow Technologies

Kapow Technologies helps companies instantly create web services or datainterfaces where they don't currently exist, and is the only provider ofmashup infrastructure that aggregates, transforms and syndicatesunstructured data on the Web. Available in both on-premise and on-demandpackages, Kapow Mashup Server can access practically any web content,including sites with complex JavaScript and AJAX, in addition to Flash andSilverlight applications. By supporting all web-services standards, KapowMashup Server integrates seamlessly with the growing list of mashupbuilding tools, such as IBM Mashup Center, and can also leverage moretraditional information technology infrastructure by integrating withdozens of portals, business intelligence systems, databases and evendesktop analytics including Microsoft Excel. Kapow has hundreds ofcustomers across the U.S., Asia and Europe, such as Audi, Intel, andVodafone, Simply Hired and Pageonce. In addition, Kapow has strategicpartnerships with major software firms including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle,and SAP.

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