WorkLight Unveils New Version of Flagship Product -- Accessibility of Enterprise Application Data Via Consumer-Oriented Services Delivers Competitive Advantage to the Enterprise

May 23, 2007; 04:35 AM
WorkLight™, an Enterprise 2.0 company, today announced the general availability of version 1.1 of its flagship WorkLight product. WorkLight is a server-based product that extends the reach of enterprise applications to allow non-technical staff and customers to access the application data they need to do their jobs. WorkLight makes application data accessible via consumer-oriented services and tools like RSS, personalized home pages, widgets and gadgets, social bookmarking and others.

WorkLight version 1.1 introduces the following key functionalities:

• Support for Consumer-Oriented Personalized Homepages: For the first time ever, information workers can securely access personalized data from enterprise applications in the same consumer-oriented homepage they use to read blogs or follow news. Information such as sales leads, unpaid invoices or open support calls can be seamlessly delivered to personal pages through these services, while adhering to the strictest corporate security policies. WorkLight currently supports the following personalized homepages: iGoogle, Windows Live and Netvibes.
• Support for Desktop Gadget Frameworks: WorkLight now supports desktop gadget frameworks, such as Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and Yahoo! Widgets. As such, enterprise employees can now access corporate data using their favorite widget tools, without having to adopt additional widget frameworks. This fosters the adoption of Web 2.0 access to corporate data, making employees more productive and organizations more successful. For the first time ever, non-technical personnel can easily build mini-applications using templates and wizard tools. WorkLight hides the underlying complexity of data access, while ensuring that existing security policies are maintained.
• Permalinks: Using its unique patent-pending technology, WorkLight now makes it possible to "permalink" enterprise application records. In essence, WorkLight assigns permanent links (URLs) to enterprise data items. Using these links, employees can now collaborate securely with colleagues by sharing application data just like they do with their favorite news stories. For example, an accounts receivable clerk could share unpaid invoices with the appropriate salespeople to make sure that invoices get paid on time. Employees save huge amounts of time and commit fewer errors because information they need to share with peers is now at their fingertips. Information is delivered only to authorized users of the native application and is subject to the organization’s access control policies, so data integrity and confidentiality are assured.
• Support for JSON: WorkLight now supports JSON, an open Web data interchange format for JavaScript applications (widgets, gadgets, and dynamic HTML pages). Support for JSON enables corporate non-technical employees to analyze enterprise data retrieved by WorkLight. This provides an unprecedented level of secure data access to the business people who run companies.

"With the advent of WorkLight version 1.1, enterprise workers can now securely access application data using a wide variety of consumer services they are familiar with at home,” said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO and founder of WorkLight. “The ease of use by which employees can now securely get the data they need to do their jobs, delivers enormous productivity gains to organizations. WorkLight customers are poised to gain a significant competitive advantage as they roll out this new release."

Now available, WorkLight version 1.1 is licensed to enterprises by yearly subscription. Pricing starts at $10 per user per month. Volume discounts are available.

About WorkLight™

WorkLight™ extends the reach of enterprise applications, by allowing workers the ability to access corporate application data via tools like RSS, personalized home pages, widgets and gadgets, instant messaging, social bookmarking and others. WorkLight delivers a substantial employee productivity gain and competitive advantage by helping people can find and use the information they need, quickly, efficiently and securely. Its enterprise-ready technology is scalable and conforms to existing and future corporate security and access-control policies.

WorkLight received the “Stay Organized” award at Microsoft’s 2007 Under the Radar Conference for emerging technologies aimed at improving efficiency and productivity. It was also named a Red Herring International finalist in recognition of new technologies that have strategically shifted U.S. and international markets. For more information, visit www.myworklight.com.