Enterprise Data Mashups Leader Fosters Data Integration Without Boundaries
with Denodo Platform 4.1

New Product Release Adds Intelligent Web Automation Capabilities and Extended Output Format Support for Enterprise and End-User Mashups – Enabling Web and Unstructured Data to be Easily Queried and Leveraged for Enterprise Gains

Palo Alto, CA –February 11, 2008 –Denodo Technologies, Inc. (www.denodo.com), the recognized innovator of Enterprise Data Mashups software, today introduced  a new release of the Denodo Platform, the industry’s only unified data integration platform able to access, extract and merge data across any digital source  to create a new class of enterprise applications. By building relevance across structured, unstructured and Web data sources, the Denodo Platform allows organizations to combine and query data sources in ways not possible before.

The added functionality in the latest release focuses in three key areas: extended support for interacting with Web 2.0 and end-user Mashups including REST Web Services and AJAX; intelligent automation of Web extraction processes using automatic scanners to reduce the time it takes to create and maintain Web extractions; and advanced performance and scalability capabilities that provide alternative options for efficiently handling data for complex enterprise data mashups and social networking paradigms. These additions strengthen the Denodo Platform’s already rich functionality for handling data federation, semantic transformations, and information integration across enterprise applications and data - making Denodo Platform 4.1 an ideal infrastructure layer for SOA environments and an agile mashup builder for applications such as single view of entity, competitive and business intelligence, technology and patent watch, B2B automation, and information aggregation.

"Mashups" and the rest of the "Web 2.0" buzzwords, are one of the more exciting trends to emerge recently,” said David Norfolk, Senior Analyst at Bloor. “They promise to give the Enterprise a different view of its data assets, treating both structured relational database data and less-formally-structured operational business data as one resource - which can be combined with Web data resources. However, there is a darkside to this, the possibility of "standards-based chaos" (linking data sources is now easy; merging their semantics rather harder) and the basing of decisions on out-of-date data or, more worryingly, up-to-date data of doubtful provenance and reliability. The facilities provided by platforms such as Denodo are necessary to ensure that there's an adequate level of governance applied to mashups (through automatic maintenance if the underlying resources change, for example) without compromising the agility which drove the use of mashups in the first place.”

The Denodo Platform, with its rich Web automation functionality, lightweight and flexible data federation architecture, and extensive mashup capabilities, is ideal for companies wanting to aggregate, enrich and share data more effectively through the incorporation of Web 2.0 technologies. The Denodo Platform is currently being used by innovative companies to:

• Integrate data across application and organizational silos for federated data views;
• Extract information from the Web to feed other business applications;
• Structure unstructured and semi-structured data and semantically relate them to enterprise repositories and applications;
• Create and manage automated Web processes to provide a more agile way to do application and B2B integration
• Construct new business applications that integrate Web and enterprise data with business processes to create business value

Availability

Denodo Platform 4.1 is available immediately. To explore the power of the Denodo Platform or to request a trial version, visit www.denodo.com

About Denodo Technologies

Denodo Technologies, Inc. is the recognized innovator of Enterprise Data Mashups.  Denodo extends the value of enterprise data integration initiatives with its ability to merge data across any digital source, whether it be structured (databases, applications and XML), unstructured (documents, static HTML and e-mail), or semi-structured (Web content and data behind any Web interface). Organizations looking to leverage their information assets can now integrate all relevant data sources – regardless of structure or location – to create new business applications based on fresher and more complete data feeds. Denodo’s customer base includes leading telecommunications, financial services, government, and B2B entities that use Enterprise Data Mashups to create single customer views, data aggregation feeds for information businesses, competitive and business intelligence applications, B2B/B2C Web automations, and data services for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Denodo is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Palo Alto, California and Madrid, Spain. For more information, please call +1-650-566 8833 or visit www.denodo.com.