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ZapNote: Autonomy ZapNote: Helping to Derive Meaning for the Web»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :While a human can identify the similarity between XML tags such as "PO", "PurchaseOrder", and "PurchOrd", an automated system would identify them as differently as "green", "car", and "jump". To address these issues of meaning, or "semantics", Autonomy has developed a set of products that aim to simplify the process of context-aware categorization and tag-set matching. While not a "Semantic Web" technology in the strict sense, it plays in that general environment. |
ZapNote: Avinon ZapNote: Scenarios for Web Services Application Delivery»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Avinon has announced the release of its NetScenario Platform for the creation of applications that utilize Web Service building blocks. While other notable Web Services platforms focus on the developer or IT staff for the creation and management of web service applications, Avinon has focused on the non-technical business user as the point of creation for web applications. The NetScenario Platform fits well within Web Services Application Delivery strategies. |
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ZapNote: B-Bop ZapNote: Leveraging Relational Databases for XML Storage»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The only true solutions for enterprise-wide XML data storage and retrieval are XML-enabled RDBMS and Native XML Data Store (NXD) approaches. The challenge with XML-enabled RDBMS is that they are not very well suited to highly extensible and flexible documents, while the challenge with NXDs is that they are unproven technologies with very small user bases. However, there is another option that is a sort of "middle ground": the use of an interpretive middle layer over standard RDBMS systems that offers schema-independent, "native" XML data storage. In this vein, B-Bop offers their Xfinity Server as a way of providing the features of Native XML storage while utilizing existing relational storage architectures. |
ZapNote: Backstream ZapNote: Multi-channel Distribution Using XML»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :One of the biggest challenges for producers and publishers of content is the publication of that content onto multiple platforms: print, the Web, PDF, wireless, and other forms. The main challenge is that each of these forms carry their own inherent formatting capabilities, navigation structures, distribution characteristics, and rights management capabilities. BackStream provides software solutions that help businesses manage their content, deliver it to multiple devices, and track and trace usage. The system provides a single platform that takes care of content creation, storage, publishing, distribution, tracking and tracing content such as text, photos, images, PDF files, and audio and video files. |
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ZapNote: Business Genetics ZapNote: An Extended Business Process Modeling Specification»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Even though there are undoubtedly large numbers of business process standards, Business Genetics insists that there are no standards that truly model a business' overall processes. They say the world of business modeling is fairly restricted to implementing confining use cases and specific transaction-oriented business processes. While UML provides a great way to model various processes, it is not a great way to model a business communication process. The goal is that the Extended Business Modeling Language (xBML) will be one of the first formalized frameworks to model a business environment. |
ZapNote: Business Layers ZapNote: Provisioning Internal Resources»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :eProvisioning describes the process of identifying and allocating resources to users with business needs, including employees, customers, business partners, and contractors. Increasingly XML is being used to solve this problem, and Business Layers has both a product and proposed specification called Active Digital Profile (ADPr) to meet these needs. |
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ZapNote: Cape Clear ZapNote: Exposing Components for Web Services»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Cape Clear's main goal is to create a platform for the development and deployment of Web Services that includes basic infrastructure and features that simplify the process of getting up and running Web Services quickly. The system allows people to take their existing investment in EJB and CORBA business logic and present them to the outside world as web services. |
ZapNote: Chrome Systems ZapNote: An XML-based Automobile Configuration Format»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Many XML formats have been created in attempts to standardize various industries (over 500 by ZapThink's latest count), but none have squarely addressed the needs for configuration and "order option rules" for the automotive industry. As such, Chrome Systems, a leader in automotive configuration software has created and released AutoTransmission, an XML format for specifying rules for ordering configurable automotive components. While specific to the automotive industry, much can be learned from how Chrome Systems has approached this specific need, and many of the elements may be applicable to other similar industries. |
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ZapNote: Clareon ZapNote: XML-Enabled Business-to-Business Banking»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Purchasers spend an inordinate and unnecessary amount of time and money in making payments to vendors and suppliers and collecting and reconciling payments for the sale of products and service. While there are more automated and electronic means for payment, each of these existing solutions have challenges that have prevented completely successful adoption in a business-to-business environment. Clareon has created PayMode as a bank-neutral, high-volume electronic payment solution for secure, information-rich, business-to-business transactions. PayMode is an Internet and XML-based settlement mechanism that allows businesses to send and receive payments and remittance data in a secure environment while providing both online and call center support for its users. |
ZapNote: Coherity ZapNote: Integrating, Aggregating, and Storing XML Data»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Current aggregation infrastructures are good at integrating different data sources as long as there is a common subset, but the problem is what do you do with the incremental exchanges shared across more than one data source, but not all? Coherity solves this problem through their Adaptive Information Integration Suite consisting of a Native XML Data store, Coherity XML Database (CXD), and a CRM-focused integration application called Coherity Integrated Customer Care (ICC). The system enables transparent data and data model exchange by accommodating data structure variations that inevitably occur when aggregating data from multiple application sources. |