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The Pros and Cons of XML Report»rank:by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Table of Contents: Introduction Basis for Comparison Brief History of XML Pro Arguments with Counterpoints Con Arguments with Counterpoints Conclusion Appendix A: What is XML? Key Findings: There are 18 key arguments favoring XML There are 9 key arguments challenging XML Does XML represent a revolutionary technology change or is it basically the same old thing in new packaging? There are compelling reasons for XML's longevity, but are matched by equally compelling challenges to its adoption and usage. There is an element of 'religiousness' to various arguments on the pro ... |
ZapNote: The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI) ZapNote: Business Object Documents Fill a Critical B2B Role»rank: 4352165by: 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: XML Global ZapNote: A Strategy for XML Document Storage and Retrieval»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Starting from roots in the text search engine business, XML Global has produced a platform called GoXML Transform that aims to provide a means for storing and manipulating native XML data. Leveraging Java and this text search experience, GoXML provides a combined Native XML data store, search engine, registry, and enterprise-class transformation and mapping system. |
ZapNote: Westbridge Technology ZapNote: Soup to Nuts Web Services Management»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :Many software vendors entering the Web Services arena are jostling each other with respect to their various business models. Are they a Web Services infrastructure platform or a Web Services security platform? Or maybe they are a Web Services management platform, or even a Web Services gateway or router?While most vendors focus on one core competency, Westbridge Technology is developing a product that will be all of these things. The Westbridge Technology XML Message Server is fundamentally a Web Services management platform. However, it also offers security features, message transformation ... |
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ZapNote: Document Sciences ZapNote: Enabling the XML-based Content Lifecycle»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :The process of creating content -- information meant for human consumption -- is typically effort-intensive. People must spend time organizing information prior to creation, constructing the content, and laying out the information so that it is easily read. With so much time, cost, and effort invested in content, it makes sense to reduce costs by reusing content as much as possible. The critical step to moving towards an architecture that supports content reuse is the creation of fine-grained content components that can then be combined to form coarse-grained documents in ... |
ZapNote: The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) ZapNote: Enabling Exchange of Business Reporting Data»rank: 4352165by: 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 ... |
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ZapNote: Datapower ZapNote: Industrial-strength XML Processing for the Network»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Datapower is focused on enabling the processing of XML at "wire-speed", or namely the ability to keep up with a network that is transferring data at or above 100 Mbps. Their primary product is a hardware, network device called the XA35 XML Router that performs real-time XSL transformation and acceleration, achieving transformations at speeds of over fifteen times that of other, conventional software solutions. |
Case Study ZapNote: The Hartford ZapNote: Web Services Management Adoption at an Early Adopter»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg
: :The insurance industry is leading the economy in the adoption of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), and The Hartford is an early adopter of these technologies among insurance companies. When it became necessary to update an agent tool that required integration to a heterogeneous collection of back-end systems, taking an SOA approach was a natural fit for them. The Hartford realized early in this project that they needed to acquire a Web Services management (WSM) solution, so they established formal selection criteria, invited several vendors to participate, and narrowed ... |
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ZapNote: RatchetSoft ZapNote: Championing The Concept Of Service Oriented Mass Customization (SOMC)»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :As ZapThink discusses in most of its research, Web Services provide an excellent means for exposing application functionality as network-discoverable Services that can then be consumed and composed as needed to suit evolving business requirements. However, one of the challenges that developers face in attempting to build such Services is defining the exact Services that might be required by end users that will consume those Services. Indeed, accomplishing the goals of widespread application reuse has always been a challenge since in a truly loosely coupled environment the developer has little ... |
ZapNote: Xaware ZapNote: XML-based Data Integration»rank: 4352165by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Efforts to "XML enable" the enterprise will be slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate these data sources. In addition, there has been a long sought-after goal of aggregating data from disparate data sources and providing a single interface for querying and retrieval of results. XAware applies an XML front-end to legacy data and thus abstracts interface and application integration requirements with end sources of data. |