Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Business Layers ZapNote: Provisioning Internal Resources / ZapThink, LLC:eProvisioning describes the process of identifying and allocating resources to users with business needs, including employees, customers, business partners, and contractors. Increasingly XML is being used to solve this problem, and Business Layers has both a product and proposed specification called Active Digital Profile (ADPr) to meet these needs.
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: PRAJA ZapNote: Empowering Aggregated Information Decision Making through Business Activity Monitoring / ZapThink, LLC:In this information-overload, rapid-fire environment of informed decision making, business users of all types need the ability to quickly assimilate information from a wide range of data sources, develop business insights from this information, monitor and react to the changing business environment, and create and disseminate new ideas and initiatives throughout the enterprise. Continual Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions allow users to be interactively informed of information in an event-driven manner. Through its ExperienceWare application suite, PRAJA provides a robust, patented Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution and development platform that organizes content around events and contextually organizes vast amounts of structured and unstructured data in a unified, context-aware view.
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: 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: 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
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: XYZFind ZapNote: A Native XML Database Focused on Simplicity / ZapThink, LLC:XYZFind provides a general-purpose NXD storage and retrieval system for XML documents, regardless of their content or schema. XYZFind aims to solve the problem of search and query over identifiable "islands of data" where the content its too varied to accommodate with file system tools. XYZFind's utilizes a proprietary query language and has a proprietary, text-based storage architecture that utilizes a meta-schema encompassing an aggregate, schema-independent view of the data.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
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: Mozquito ZapNote: Advanced XML-based Form Technology / ZapThink, LLC:Mozquito Technologies AG produces a suite of development tools targeted at advanced interactive "form" development using XForms , XHTML, and their Forms Markup Language (FML) in its Mozquito Factory and Matrix product lines. This is important, since like XML, forms represent a structured interchange of data. Forms provide additional specific features such as workflow, auto-fill, and pre-fill form applications that are supported through the use of instance data.
Publication date: 2002-07-11
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Westbridge Technology ZapNote: Soup to Nuts Web Services Management / ZapThink, LLC: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 and routing, as well as directory administration, all on top of a powerful policy engine. If Westbridge can execute on their vision, they will be a solid contender for the elusive enterprise IT dollar, although they have set the bar quite high.
Publication date: 2002-07-29
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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).
Publication date: 2002-08-19
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: TruSecure ZapNote: Managed Security Services for the Enterprise / ZapThink, LLC:As Web Services become more prevalent in the enterprise, they will provide an additional set of risks that companies will have to manage. TruSecure is one of many companies that offer managed security services to the enterprise. TruSecure offers a comprehensive security policy management service that helps companies mitigate the risks facing them in a cost-effective fashion. TruSecure's customers are not demanding security features that specifically address Web Services yet, but TruSecure's proactive security assurance process will make them ready once their customers seek this additional level of protection.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
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
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Ipedo ZapNote: An In-Memory Native XML Data Storage System / ZapThink, LLC:Ipedo has developed a proprietary, hierarchical, in-memory database engine aimed at storing XML documents "natively". The Ipedo XML Database uses memory techniques to get substantial performance gains versus some other NXD approaches. Built as an all-Java server, the Ipedo system is meant to be easily integrated with typical application server environments. Ipedo has extended XPath for search across multiple XML documents and has also included XSLT transformations within the data store itself.
Publication date: 2002-05-13
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Vitria ZapNote: Semantic Approach to Business Process Management / ZapThink, LLC:The Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) space is getting more competitive by the day, with industry juggernauts IBM and BEA pushing into the markets dominated by the four established EAI vendors: WebMethods, Tibco, SeeBeyond, and Vitria. On top of these increased competitive pressures comes the advent of Web Services. With their open standards-based, loosely coupled approach to integration, Web Services provide a clear, short term cost benefit to companies looking to integrate systems, both within their enterprises as well as across their value chains.
Authors
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
- ZapThink
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
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
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review ZapNote: Epicentric ZapNote: Web Services Portal Platform and User Interface Specifications / ZapThink, LLC:Portals are being used to provide access to content sources or applications such as Siebel and SAP, and enable a common composite application that is accessible via a web browser-based interface. There is a strong intersection with this application-centric use of portals and what is going on with Web Services. Portals provide a compelling means for application delivery of Web Services in a familiar development and management environment. Epicentric has produced a number of advanced products and services to address this capability, and has championed the development of XML-based formats for specification of presentation-layer interfaces for Web Services.
Authors
- ZapThink
- Ronald D. Schmelzer
List Price: $395.00
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
- 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.
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