JackBe executives Dan Malks - Vice President of Application Platforms - and Deepak Alur - Vice President of Engineering - gave a tremendously well attended presentation at AJAXWorld Conference Expo today, bringing attendees up to date with its 'Rich Enterprise Applications' vision, and more specifically its new Presto platform offering.

Alur manages the engineering and development teams for JackBe chartered with timely delivery of JackBe's product roadmap and Malks oversees JackBe's Application Platform, delivering key elements of JackBe's innovative product suite.

Applications built on the Presto platform, Malks contended, gain business-class reliability, scalability, and service governance. The results are highly interactive browser-based applications that help users to optimize both their regular and ad hoc activities, he told the packed keynote room. 

JackBe’s new Presto platform will make the development of what JackBe calls "Rich Enterprise Applications" faster and easier AJAX-based apps. But according to blogger and Web 2.0 architect Dion Hinchcliffe its real game-changing potential is to empower business users to create their own situational or ‘tacit’ applications based on rapidly changing needs.

Introducing the concept of an AJAX Service Bus, Malks explained how Empowerment, Reliability, and Governance were the three pillars on which the Preston platform was built.