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Information as a Service: Service-Oriented Information Integration White Paper»rank: 6437207by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :As organizations grow organically, they often implement multiple systems that contain information that is redundant, conflicting, or distributed across their organization. As such, the seemingly simple task of trying to gain a single view of the information contained in the enterprise is a significant challenge. The requirement for single view, aggregated views, or shared information cuts cross the value chain from sales leads, orders, to products, inventory – including e-government initiatives in public safety, health and defense. While many application integration approaches attempt to solve this disparate information challenge by removing the barriers to accessing information, the challenge still remains of how to gain intelligence from the disparate data in the enterprise. ... |
Infosys: Global Consulting Powerhouse ZapNote»rank: 5082083by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Infosys is a global IT services powerhouse that is transforming the world of professional services, systems integration, and global outsourced IT development and management. Their growth has been unimpeded, even through the difficult post dot-com boom years, mainly due to their innovative Global Delivery Model (GDM) approach. Web Services and SOA factor into their growth story by providing the technical underpinnings for achieving even greater amounts of efficiency and business value for their customers. This ZapNote explores Infosys’s overall business and one of the implementation frameworks they have developed to bootstrap Web Services implementations by providing an infrastructure for implementing SOA. |
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JackBe: Radically Improving Web Application Performance By Optimizing The Client ZapNote»rank: 6541148by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The Web has continued to deliver value to companies as an efficient and effective means of communicating information and interacting with their customers, employees, partners, suppliers, media, investors, and other third-parties. Part of the reason for the success of the Web in being so core to a company’s operations is that it allows for organizations to deliver distributed applications on a global scale for significantly less cost than it would be using other, more traditional forms of communication or computing interaction. However, the major downside to the web is its performance. Simply put, enterprises have not mastered the art of making web-based applications, and especially highly transactional ones, responsive to end users. ... |
Key XML Specifications and Standards Poster»rank: 6508733by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer, Jason Bloomberg
: : Presenting the ZapThink XML Standards Poster! Over 135 XML and Web Services Standards At-a-Glance This beautiful poster was included in the June 2002 Issue of Application Development Trends! Exclusive from ZapThink only! This attractive 18' x 24' poster was featured as an insert in Application Development Trends and circulated to over 80,000 XML and Web Services developers. The poster, updated as of May 2002, features over 135 of the most important, key XML and Web Services standards and includes the XML Core specifications, Web Services stack, ebXML, e-Commerce and e-Business standards, Content Management, security, transport and messaging protocols, Semantic Web, and tons of vertical industry standards including Financial Services, Life Sciences, ... |
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Laszlo Systems: Rich Client Capabilities Based on Macromedia Flash ZapNote»rank: 6388128by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :In the past, companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, used to give them. Companies looking to implement rich client technologies across a heterogeneous IT infrastructure will be most interested in a new breed of solution focused specifically on providing rich user interaction across standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing environments. This solution set is the class of rich client-focused technologies. Laszlo Systems has produced its own server-side offering called the Laszlo Presentation Server and XML-based development language called LZX to that provides rich client interaction and consumption of Web Services through the delivery of interactive Macromedia Flash ... |
Macromedia Flex: Expanding on Flash to Provide Rich Client Capabilities ZapNote»rank: 2574566by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Companies originally moved to adopt standards-based technologies like those underlying the Web and the Internet as a way to achieve distributed computing functionality at a very low total cost of ownership. However, such companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, gave them. This fundamental drawback to thin clients like Web browsers let to an emerging class of vendor that offers rich client solutions that provide the optimal combination of rich, low-cost interaction through standards-based distributed computing. Macromedia was one of the early pioneers in rich user interaction across the Internet. In 1997, they made a splash in ... |
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NexaWeb: Rich Client for High Performance Web Services ZapNote»rank: 6048866by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Two of the often conflicting desires in IT is the need on the one hand for rich user interfaces that maximize a user’s productivity and on the other hand, the desire to decentralize computing so that a user can gain access to the widest base of IT assets at the lowest possible cost. These two forces are at odds because rich client interfaces, until recently, have only been possible in certain limited scenarios in which the business logic and computing resources were combined with the interface. However, a new class of presentation layer is emerging. This rich client interface to Web Services provides an end user experience that is similar to client/server ... |
Optimizing Web Services in the Enterprise White Paper: From Point-to-Point Web Services to Service-Oriented Architectures»rank: 6346530by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :XML and Web Services traffic is consuming an increasing percentage of the bandwidth on the corporate network. At the same time, enterprise IT architects and data center administrators are struggling with how to deploy XML and Web Services-based solutions in the enterprise in a reliable, secure, and manageable manner. Furthermore, existing computing infrastructures are increasingly inadequate to meet the demands of high-performance XML and Web Services capabilities.To solve many of these challenges, vendors are introducing a new category of intelligent network device that are able to intercept, inspect, transform, and redirect XML and Web Services requests according to business policies.As enterprises move from simple, point-to-point applications of Web Services to building Service-Oriented ... |
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Overcoming XML's Hidden Processing Costs White Paper»rank: 6346530by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :XML is pervasive. In a matter of years, it will fuel every application, device, and document found in enterprise networks. However, as XML proliferates, it will stress existing systems and enterprise budgets to their breaking points. This is because existing n-tier software architectures and legacy infrastructures were not designed to process this verbose new data type efficiently. What enterprises need is a new way to process XML in the network, rather than in software at the database, application server, or presentation tiers. Yet today’s existing network infrastructure is limited to switching lower layer protocols and is unable to detect XML - much less parse and process it.An emerging class of hardware-based XML-aware ... |
Presentation-Layer Web Services Presentation»rank: 6346530by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :XML is pervasive. In a matter of years, it will fuel every application, device, and document found in enterprise networks. However, as XML proliferates, it will stress existing systems and enterprise budgets to their breaking points. This is because existing n-tier software architectures and legacy infrastructures were not designed to process this verbose new data type efficiently. What enterprises need is a new way to process XML in the network, rather than in software at the database, application server, or presentation tiers. Yet today’s existing network infrastructure is limited to switching lower layer protocols and is unable to detect XML - much less parse and process it.An emerging class of hardware-based XML-aware ... |