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- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: eXcelon ZapNote: Robust Native XML Data Storage and Management / ZapThink, LLC:There are two major categories of XML data store: extensions to relational database systems (RDBMS) and a new category of "Native" XML data stores (NXDs). While extensions to RDBMS systems simply enable RDBMS databases to map XML documents to relational tables, NXDs allow users to insert XML documents directly into the system without need for mapping or interacting with anything besides the XML document. eXcelon's eXtensible Information Server (XIS) is an "XML data management system (XDBMS)" that is aimed squarely at the problem of storing arbitrarily structured XML documents. Among other features, XIS provides node level management of XML data, dealing with XML document information at the element level, rather than the document level.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: Corel ZapNote: Advancing XML Content Creation / ZapThink, LLC:In 2001, Corel began an aggressive campaign to add XML to their advanced publishing products line. They realized that XML could take content development and management to a new level. XML lets users create content that they can categorize, search, re-use, and format automatically. No one understood the power of XML better than SoftQuad, which Corel acquired in 2001. SoftQuad had long played an instrumental role in the development of document-centric technologies. Corel recently shared with ZapThink its strategy for tying together its SoftQuad, Ventura Publisher, and other product lines into a cohesive mix applicable for content developers and publishers alike. The results offer a compelling set of solutions for the corporate enterprise looking to adopt XML as a component of its content development and delivery.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: B-Bop ZapNote: Leveraging Relational Databases for XML Storage / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Avinon ZapNote: Scenarios for Web Services Application Delivery / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: MISMO ZapNote: An Implementation of Mortgage Industry Standards / ZapThink, LLC:The need for standardization and simplification in the mortgage industry is clear. In order to obtain a mortgage, many complex and interrelated processes must occur. These processes frequently cross-organizational and divisional boundaries and so standards have long been a requirement for communication. One of the biggest issues in the mortgage industry is the number of interactions between collaborating parties and the complexity of these interactions. The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) was created in 1999 under the auspices of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) in order to facilitate the creation and maintenance of XML data interchange standards for the mortgage industry. MISMO defines actual XML element and attribute names that represent a standardized view and organization of mortgage-related data elements.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: Coherity ZapNote: Integrating, Aggregating, and Storing XML Data / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Publication date: 2002-07-29
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Review ZapNote: Quadrasis ZapNote: A Virtual Security Service for Real Heterogeneous Environments / ZapThink, LLC:Quadrasis is using the power of Web Services to build a broad enterprise security architecture framework. They approach the enterprise IT environment from the top down, addressing the security requirements for the full breadth of heterogeneous systems in a typical enterprise. Their flagship product, EASI Security Unifier, provides a "virtual security service" for the enterprise, abstracting the individual security requirements of each system using the open standards of Web Services, and in particular, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: XML Global ZapNote: A Strategy for XML Document Storage and Retrieval / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: Userland ZapNote: Adventures in XML Content Management / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: Jabber ZapNote: Protocol for Streaming XML Data / ZapThink, LLC:Initially created as an open-source Instant Messaging (IM) platform, Jabber's XMPP protocol has emerged as a general protocol for streaming XML data and Web Services. Offered as an alternative to HTTP, SMTP, and FTP, Jabber provides value in making Web Services more reliable and scalable. It also offers a compelling solution for those interested in a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications format, although the protocol isn't a P2P protocol per se.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: IONA ZapNote: A Service-oriented Integration Platform / ZapThink, LLC:The idea of Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) quite simple: rather than requiring systems to understand the details of a system in order to extract information, we can merely expose that system as a service and make queries to the service to meet our needs. SOI is merging different integration paradigms into a single solution set: integration between devices (from handhelds to mainframes), applications (such as Great Plains, SAP, and Siebel), B2B integration, and traditional EAI. IONA has released a platform known as the Orbix End-to-Anywhere (E2A) Web Services Integration Platform that sets the context for a very wide set of products covering the widest range of functionality in an SOI environment.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: Commerce.Net ZapNote: Redefining Online Purchasing / ZapThink, LLC:While there no doubt are more than a handful of XML-based eBusiness and e-Commerce specifications, OBI differentiates itself by focusing on the business processes and data sets required to support catalog, configurator, and other e-Procurement transactions expressed in ANSI x12, UN/EDIFACT 96A and XML. The OBI specification facilitates Internet-based transactions between trading partners, particularly with key contracted suppliers of commodity goods and services. The standard specifically targets the transactions of indirect materials, including maintenance, repair, operations (MRO) materials, and office and laboratory supplies.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: Forum Systems ZapNote: Advanced XML Network Appliance / ZapThink, LLC:Rather than requiring each application on the network to comply with the latest XML-based security specifications, compression algorithms, and business process standards, most organizations will seek to implement centralized intermediaries that will handle these tasks on behalf of the applications. Hardware XML Network Appliances can fill the role of the XML and Web Services intermediary in a credible way. Forum Systems has produced a hardware appliance that aims to fill the role as Web Services Proxy as and XML "Application Firewall" by processing XML network traffic and applying security, routing, and transformation operations to the data in a transparent manner. They see the XML Network Appliance as an increasingly important device that will become crucial to the acceptance and growth of XML use within the enterprise. Forum has correctly reasoned that security is the primary and most immediate market for these XML Network Appliances.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: Transentric ZapNote: Cross-Industry Shipping and Logistics Format / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Commerce.Net ZapNote: Redefining Online Purchasing / ZapThink, LLC:While there no doubt are more than a handful of XML-based eBusiness and e-Commerce specifications, OBI differentiates itself by focusing on the business processes and data sets required to support catalog, configurator, and other e-Procurement transactions expressed in ANSI x12, UN/EDIFACT 96A and XML. The OBI specification facilitates Internet-based transactions between trading partners, particularly with key contracted suppliers of commodity goods and services. The standard specifically targets the transactions of indirect materials, including maintenance, repair, operations (MRO) materials, and office and laboratory supplies.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Fidesic ZapNote: XML-Powered Electronic Payment / ZapThink, LLC:Paper-based invoices and payments are inefficient, time-consuming for both the payer and payee, and are fraught with potential for error and delays due to the postal service and the required time to take payment to the bank for deposit and processing. XML, Web Services, and associated technologies promise to solve these problems and present to users a more efficient, integrated, and lower-cost solution for automating electronic payment. Fidesic provides a solution to the above problems through an electronic invoicing and payment solutions that integrates with existing financial applications. The solution supports the full payment cycle from invoicing to payment transmission and settlement.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Review ZapNote: COMTEX ZapNote: Implementing NewsML / ZapThink, LLC:COMTEX, an organization that serves as an infomediary between news providers such as Associated Press and the various news distribution and display sites is making use of NewsML, a format for the structure and delivery of news content stories. This note details their use of the format and some detail on NewsML.
Creator: CCBOOTCAMP: Division of Network Learning
Edition: 2007
Publication date: 2007-05-01
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Review CCBOOTCAMP'S CCIE Security Lab Tech Workbook / CCBOOTCAMP: Division of Network Learning:This workbook iams at an in-depth presentation of seven security technologies: ASA, Router, Switch, AAA, VPN, Router and ASA, VPN Concetrator and IPS. A final chapter is dedicated to a MOCK Scenario bringing all seven technologies together, just like in the real CCIE Security Lab.
Publication date: 2002-07-15
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Review ZapNote: Epistemic ZapNote: Giving Real Power to Business Analysts / ZapThink, LLC:Traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions are often inflexible and incomplete, because they depend on rigidly structured data found in relational database systems (RDBMS). Such solutions often exclude nonrelational data, and force users into a "SQL query" mindset. Epistemic leverages the power of Web Services to break free from the traditional relational database/SQL query approach to business intelligence that poorly addresses non-relational data and provides intelligence of limited use. Where business analysts using these traditional tools must massage the results in Excel in order to analyze them, analysts using the Epicentric Analytics Toolkit can begin their analysis right away. Epistemic's use of Web Services provides two important lessons for other software vendors: first, Web Services can provide substantial value to vendors who do not consider themselves "Web Services vendors," and second, Web Services offer much more than simple point-to-point integration.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
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Review ZapNote: Autonomy ZapNote: Helping to Derive Meaning for the Web / ZapThink, LLC: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.
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