Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Clareon ZapNote: XML-Enabled Business-to-Business Banking / ZapThink, LLC:Purchasers spend an inordinate and unnecessary amount of time and money in making payments to vendors and suppliers and collecting and reconciling payments for the sale of products and service. While there are more automated and electronic means for payment, each of these existing solutions have challenges that have prevented completely successful adoption in a business-to-business environment. Clareon has created PayMode as a bank-neutral, high-volume electronic payment solution for secure, information-rich, business-to-business transactions. PayMode is an Internet and XML-based settlement mechanism that allows businesses to send and receive payments and remittance data in a secure environment while providing both online and call center support for its users.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: PRISM ZapNote: Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata / ZapThink, LLC:As companies increasingly partner and syndicate their content to other locations, the need to locate, reuse, and repurpose content in different forms and in real-time is becoming increasingly important. Today, repurposing consists mostly of cutting and pasting different content components. This simplistic mechanism has been the main way of accomplishing this goal not out of efficiency but out of necessity - there simply are no reliable ways to automatically retrieve, aggregate, and reuse similar types of content. One of the efforts to solve these publishing issues is the Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Working Group, which seeks to provide an extensible XML metadata standard for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content in both traditional and electronic publishing contexts.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: FRx Software ZapNote: Using XML for Budgeting and Forecasting / ZapThink, LLC:Leveraging the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), and XML format for business financial reporting, FRx Forecaster (formerly ebudgets. com) has launched a product that uses XML to aggregate budgetary and financial information across many enterprise and legacy systems.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Cybermation ZapNote: Perking Up Enterprise Scheduling with Espresso / ZapThink, LLC:Enterprise, or distributed, job scheduling is the ability to create cross-platform batch processes and workload that is executed on multiple machines. Cybermation's Espresso accomplishes this task by means of a graphical interface that helps a user define, test, and manage these distributed workloads across heterogeneous systems.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: The Open Travel Alliance (OTA) ZapNote: Two Companies Find Opportunity in Travel Standards / ZapThink, LLC: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.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Attunity ZapNote: Service-Oriented Integration / ZapThink, LLC:Service-oriented Integration (SOI) provides an "arms-length" means for systems to simply expose their interfaces while abstracting their internal processes, thus simplifying integration. Attunity has a compelling set of solutions for facilitating the creation of SOI-enabled systems and simplifying integration challenges within organizations. Attunity seeks to expose a wide variety of data sources including custom and legacy systems as services that are used a step in automating business processes both within and external to the organization.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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.
Publication date: 2002-12-11
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Actional ZapNote: A Two-Part Approach to Addressing Service-Oriented Management / ZapThink, LLC:Actional’s product line addresses IT architecture challenges at two gaps: at the adaptation layer between back-end data sources and application servers, and at the management layer between the application servers and Service consumers. At the adaptation layer, Actional provides loosely coupled interfaces to business applications, databases, and other back-end systems. At the management layer, Actional solves problems of access control, Service quality and availability, and managing changes to existing Web Services. Actional’s complex two-product approach offers their customers flexibility in deployment of Web Services.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
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
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) ZapNote: An XML-based Financial Exchange Specification / ZapThink, LLC:Financial services and related industries are some of the largest consumers of information and data in the world. Standardization of transactions (message sets) allows financial organizations to more easily acquire customers for online banking and financial services, retain flexibility in their choice of technology vendors and suppliers, more easily manage their portfolio of service, and greatly reduce cost of product development and integration. The IFX Specification allows financial institutions and associated service providers to access account information, download credit card statements, transfer funds, process consumer and business payments, enable bill presentment, and improve customer service. The specification supports a broad range of client devices, including Web browser access, direct support within financial software packages, Voice Response Units (VRUs) that provide Bank by Phone services, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), handheld devices, and mobile phones with data capabilities.
Publication date: 2002-12-06
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Blue Titan ZapNote: A Fully Distributed Service-Oriented Management Network / ZapThink, LLC:Blue Titan offers a fully distributed approach to Service-oriented management that offers enterprises scalability and manageability of Web Services and their underlying systems and applications. The Blue Titan Network Director focuses on enabling Service-oriented architectures by providing a virtualization layer between Web Service consumers and the systems and data that underlie those Web Services. In addition, Blue Titan offers active Web Services performance management and quality of service capabilities.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Infoteria ZapNote: Platform for B2B Integration / ZapThink, LLC:Infoteria's Asteria Platform and Business Language Objects for XML (BLOX) provide a comprehensive solution for transporting, integrating, and manipulating XML within the context of e-Business transactions, with a particular focus on the RosettaNet specifications. Their comprehensive B2B automation and integration platform, along with componentized business functionality, will help to simplify and enable scalable and robust B2B integration applications.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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.
Publication date: 2002-07-15
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: RosettaNet ZapNote: Aiming Towards Global Implementation / ZapThink, LLC:RosettaNet has long been a leading force in standardization of e-Business exchange in the high-tech supply chain. One of the most significant challenges facing XML-based B2B standards is their difficulty in being widely implemented and adopted. To directly address this implementation and usability challenge, RosettaNet has adopted a new focus aimed at enabling global implementation of their specifications. Users looking to implement RosettaNet specifications should read this Briefing Note to understand this new focus and ascertain how it will affect their long-term implementation goals.
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