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What's Hot with Web Services? Presentation»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Wilshire EDF Conference: Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures for Business Agility Presentation»rank: 5394149by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Companies today are struggling with the best way to implement IT infrastructures that enable business agility. Service-oriented architectures based on Web services provide cost-effective approaches to achieving companies’ agility goals. This course provides companies of all sizes and industries an approach to implementing Service-oriented architectures in a way that provides return-on-investment (ROI) at each step along the path toward agile IT infrastructures. We will discuss the steps and phases by which companies can move from today's brittle infrastructures to loosely-coupled, coarse-grained, asynchronous SOAs. The course covers concepts in point-to-point Web services implementations for integration, securing, managing, and adding process layers to these services, implementing registries and management for loose coupling, moving to ... |
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Wilshire EDF: Service-Oriented Integration and Process Presentation»rank: 5394149by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Integration is not about simply plugging two systems or organizations into each other. The vision of 'plug and play' application and system integration is a pipe dream that may be appropriate for in the distant future, but right now enterprises face the more immediate challenge of connecting arbitrary systems in a manner that is cost effective, manageable, efficient and secure. Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst, ZapThink, gives you soup-to-nuts expertise for Web services and the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), as they represent an approach for integrating systems using an abstracted methodology called Service-Oriented Integration (SOI). Discover how Web services is becoming a key element to simplify and enable integration between legacy, heterogeneous and disparate ... |
WS-I: Providing Tangible Business Benefits through Web Services Interoperability White Paper»rank: 5502934by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Web Services promise significant benefits for enterprises and solutions vendors alike: reduced cost and complexity of connecting systems and businesses, increased choice of technology suppliers and thus reduced total cost of technology ownership, and increased opportunities to interact with customers and suppliers in new and profitable ways. The fundamental premise of Web Services is that standardization, predicated on the promise of interoperability, resolves many of the long-standing integration issues facing businesses today. However, Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) based upon them are an emerging market, and as such, the technologies and specifications that various bodies are defining for Web Services are in constant flux. One of the roadblocks to widespread ... |
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XML and Privacy: Mutually Exclusive? Presentation»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Web Services promise significant benefits for enterprises and solutions vendors alike: reduced cost and complexity of connecting systems and businesses, increased choice of technology suppliers and thus reduced total cost of technology ownership, and increased opportunities to interact with customers and suppliers in new and profitable ways. The fundamental premise of Web Services is that standardization, predicated on the promise of interoperability, resolves many of the long-standing integration issues facing businesses today. However, Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) based upon them are an emerging market, and as such, the technologies and specifications that various bodies are defining for Web Services are in constant flux. One of the roadblocks to widespread ... |
XML and Web Services in Vertical Industries Presentation»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :A wide array of vertical industries are increasingly using XML to support communications among and within businesses. However, XML itself is just the foundational technology for enabling system-independent representation of information. What are the specific vocabularies that particular vertical industries are using, and how is XML providing a significant value proposition for companies and industries looking to standardize their interactions? What are the important XML vocabularies for your vertical industry? What standards bodies or consortia in your industry are responsible for driving those vocabularies? What steps can you take today to leverage XML in your business? |
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The XML and Web Services Processing Challenge White Paper: Eliminating Content-Processing Bottlenecks»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Performing XML-aware content inspection is a difficult task. Network devices and application servers are already overloaded handling the basic TCP/IP and HTTP based functions that they were built for. Processing and inspecting XML on the network is a compute-intensive, multistep task. Each step consumes processing power and time, resulting in a challenging environment, especially if the business requires a solution that introduces no additional latency. Clearly, companies require a new class of solution in order to meet the increasing demand to understand, process, and manage XML and Web Services traffic on the network.XML proxies and related technologies offer an evolutionary advancement from current IP-based network processing techniques by providing the ability to ... |
XML Data Storage Technologies and Trends Report: Native XML Data Stores (NXDs) and XML Extensions to RDBMS»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Key Findings: XML content needs to be stored in a manner that it can be searched and retrieved back in XML format. This seemingly simple requirement has profound impact for existing data storage technologies. Expenditure on XML Storage solutions will grow from $75 million in 2000 to over $4.1 Billion (US) in 2005 XML-enabled RDBMS vendors consumed only 15% of that market in 2000, but will consume over 65% of the total expenditure by 2005. Native XML Data Store (NXD) vendors will realize around $1.6 Billion in revenue by 2005 The primary methods in use today for storing XML documents include XML-enabled (or extended) relational databases, NXDs, Content Management stores, and file ... |
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XML Data Store Multi-Client Study Report: Evaluating the 'Sweet Spots' for XML Data Storage»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Study Overview: This study is structured into two parts: a part that discusses the requirements for XML storage and the directions that the market is heading, and a part that profiles specific solutions and how they meet those requirements. PART I: Understanding the Market The first section of this Study explores the market and specific customer needs for XML data stores and answers the following questions: What are the business drivers for XML data storage? What are customers actually doing with XML data stores? What are the requirements for those different solutions? How are these requirements and needs shifting the market for XML data store solutions. PART II: Understanding the Vendors ZapThink ... |
XML in Financial Services Report: The Whats, Whys, Whos and Hows»rank: 4249454by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Key Findings: Financial Services role as a high-value information sector with the pressures of integrating complex, heterogeneous systems, the movement to 'T+1' processing, and financial document preparation makes adoption of XML in the near term highly likely. The Financial Services sector spent over $195 Billion (US) in IT in 2001, with $985 Million invested on XML technologies in 2002. Expenditures on XML technologies in the Financial Services sector will grow to over $8.3 Billion by 2005. Financial Services will seek to implement integration-centric XML approaches first, and content-management approaches second. The industry's focus on Straight-Through Processing and integration challenges will constrict IT budgets to XML solutions that specifically address these points. Budgets ... |