Catalyst Resources and Backbase Announce Business Alliance to Deliver End-to-End Solution for Design and Development of Enterprise RIAs Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA - Catalyst Resources, a leader in rapid application design and Backbase, the leading provider of enterprise software for creating AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), announce an alliance to provide an end-to-end design and development solution for rich Customer Engagement and Enterprise AJAX applications.