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ZapNote: Sybase»rank:by: Ronald D. Schmelzer, Jason Bloomberg
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ZapNote: Tamesis ZapNote: Managing Risk with XML»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Financial traders depend on information feeds from many different systems and consolidate these feeds into a single view that hopefully gives them the information they need to make educated decisions. What is needed is a real-time, accurate, integrated, and efficient system for aggregating information from multiple sources. Tamesis is focusing squarely on this problem by providing an XML and Web Services-enabled product that aims to be a real-time, accurate, and highly integrated solution. The company has built a product called Tamesis Risk Informer that aims to extract data from different data sources, normalize to an XML format and present aggregated information in a customizable view to end trader users. |
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ZapNote: The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) ZapNote: Enabling Exchange of Business Reporting Data»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Sharing financial and business information within and external to a business is often a challenge. Preparing financial statements for filing, printing, or web display often means that this same information would need to be re-entered multiple times. Furthermore, once this information is published, searching and extracting components of the financial information can be a challenge. The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an open, freely licensed specification that uses XML to describe financial statements for both public and private companies. The format provides a standard format in which users can prepare business and financial reports that can be subsequently presented in a variety of ways. |
ZapNote: The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI) ZapNote: Business Object Documents Fill a Critical B2B Role»rank: 5054140by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The vision of the Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI) is to facilitate Business-to-Business (B2B) and Application-to-Application (A2A) integration by introducing a set of Business Object Documents (BODs) that specify integration requirements to the point that systems can be "plug and play" in the same manner that desktop systems now can support arbitrary hardware devices. OAGI initiatives play well with ebXML and RosettaNet efforts and can be used as a quick step-up towards B2B integration. |
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ZapNote: The Open Travel Alliance (OTA) ZapNote: Two Companies Find Opportunity in Travel Standards»rank: 5054140by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The Open Travel Alliance (OTA) was created less than two years ago as a means for creating a set of standards for the hospitality and travel industries. Their first deliverable is an XML-based specification that covers the various needs of airline, hotel, car, and entertainment facilities. And two organizations, Viata and Outrigger Hotels, are making the most of their commitment to open standards in the hospitality industries by adopting OTA. |
ZapNote: TimeVision ZapNote: XML-enabling Organizational Charts and Structure»rank: 4043550by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Organizational charts are universally understood and so it is almost one of the only true universal business documents. People use org charts for change management (such as layoffs and rapid growth), phone lists, directories for departments, what-if planning for mergers and acquisitions, redundancies, efficiencies, gaps, and headcount on the fly. The main problem with organizational charts is that they are frequently are out-of-date, and most industrial HR and ERP software packages have left this capability out of their products. TimeVision has answered these problems through a set of innovative products that dynamically report and update organizational information leveraging XML as its main storage and exchange mechanism. |
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ZapNote: Transentric ZapNote: Cross-Industry Shipping and Logistics Format»rank: 4043550by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Transentric, a spin-off of transportation giant Union Pacific, has created TransXML, an XML format for the specification of shipping and logistics information in a cross-industry manner. Most manufacturing, retail, and other supply-chain affected industries have a requirement for specifying shipping information. Transentric's format is meant to simplify and standardize these requirements. Organizations seeking to specify shipping and logistics information should examine TransXML for applicability and possible usage. |
ZapNote: UDICo ZapNote: Enabling the Creation of Web Services Middleware (AKA Turning Word and Excel into Web Services Clients)»rank: 6603666by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :While real-time message-based architectures are great for distributing on-line transactions, however its capability for handling high volume loads comes into question. One of the vendors solving this problem is the Universal Data Interface Company (UDICo). Their product, TierBroker, can process large volumes of data using a mechanism that creates middleware that connects directly to data sources and exposes them as Web Services to end clients in a small footprint that can be embedded in Excel and Word applications. The product can talk to XML as well as non-XML systems, message-oriented middleware systems including MQSeries and TIBCO, or other systems using SOAP over HTTP. |
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ZapNote: Userland ZapNote: Adventures in XML Content Management»rank: 6511782by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Userland has pioneered a variety of technologies that have all one thing in common -- making it easier for users to create, manage, and share content in a Web environment. Their goal is embodied in Userland's three main applications: Frontier, Radio, and Manila. |
ZapNote: X-Hive ZapNote: A Highly Scalable Native XML Data Storage Solution»rank: 6511782by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The most valuable attribute of Native XML Data Stores (NXDs) is their ability to store arbitrary and highly variant XML documents. XML-enabled RDBMS systems require explicit mappings to XML documents, and by their very nature are unable to deal with XML documents that have a highly variable structure and take advantage of XML’s extensibility capabilities. X-Hive provides a solution to this problem by presenting a highly scalable NXD system that is capable of supporting a large quantity and volume of XML documents. X-Hive/DB is differentiated itself by its focus on high volume XML data storage requirements, support for advanced XML query and storage specifications, and focused support of its European customer base. |