The company's Web Data Server is popular among Fortune 1000 companies for automating integration with Web data sources Kapow Technologies will add next week a development environment to its Kapow Web Data Server for Web data access and enterprise integration.Version 7.2 of Kapow Web Data Server, available Monday, features Design Studio, an IDE for developing and deploying automated processes, or what Kapow calls “robots.” Kapow functions are combined into a single point-and-click IDE. Design Studio replaces the previous tool, called Robomaker, and adds support for native XML, FTP, and Flash.[ Read InfoWorld columnist Neil McAllister’s take on social networks becoming developer platforms. ] Kapow Web Data Server is used by more than 400 Fortune 1000 companies, including Disney and AT&T, to automate integration with Web data sources, either inside a firewall, in a data cloud, or across the Web, Kapow said.“Our product is really a data access, data integration platform,” said Stefan Andreasen, CTO and founder of Kapow. A Web browser is used as the interface to data.Kapow’s product can be used to enable mashups, in which an application can be developed as a Web service and feed data directly into mashup tools from JackBe or IBM. Also, Kapow Web Data Server can be used for business intelligence, extracting Web-based commentary about a product from social networks. Other features in version 7.2 include Data Viewer, for viewing collected data without a presentation tool, and FTP and file system interaction, providing integration to FTP directories. Version 7.2 also includes converters for XML, JSON, and CSV formats as well as improved database and handling, Kapow said.Improvements to the product’s browser-based scheduler, for managing data extraction, include a Web-based environment to manipulate data. Version 7.2 also features improved JavaScript performance.This article, “Kapow adds IDE to Web data integrator,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com. Development ToolsDatabases