The SOAP Opera Progresses - Helping XML to Rule the World

by Michael F. Reed ... Event Summary. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first public working drafts of SOAP Version 1.2 and the XML Protocol Abstract Model. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2001/08/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_08_20_01_1.asp - 8k Summary: An important emerging standard in the web arena, known as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), originally developed by Microsoft, has achieved a new milestone. Since IBM joined in support for the SOAP standard with increased security, SOAP may replace DCOM, and possibly even CORBA eventually. The W3C

Liberty Alliance vs. WS-I; J2EE vs. .NET; Overwhelmed .YET? Part 1 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The organization's goal is to work with other standards groups like, inter alia, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the Advancement ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/03/research_notes/EN_EV_PJ_03_20_02_1.asp - 14k Summary: On one hand, some archrivals (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle) are becoming strange bedfellows, while, on the other hand, the others (e.g., Microsoft and Sun) remain set on irreconcilable differences between their technology camps. What are users to do when torn between the hype/promise of Web services

Metadata Standards in the Marketplace – Why Do I Care? (And ...

by M. Reed ... The World Wide Web Consortium's document format for the Web that is more flexible than the standard HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/research_notes/MN_DW_MFR_05_16_00_1.asp - 18k Summary: Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact. Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly complicated.

Microsoft Hopes to Win Over Consumer Privacy Advocates

by L. Taylor ... for Privacy Preferences. P3P is a standard developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium. It specifies a machine ... http:/.../research/researchhighlights/security/2000/08/news_analysis/na_st_lpt_08_09_00_1.asp - 9k Summary: Microsoft aims to assist users understand privacy issues by embedding privacy agents into its web browser

Exact Software--Working Diligently Towards the "One Exact" Synergy ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Additionally, e-Synergy features a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant XML (extensible Markup Language) interface enabling integration with most legacy ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/02/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_02_26_04_1.asp - 13k Summary: By determinedly executing a number of both prudent and bold initiatives, including some that encroach into the new frontiers of enterprise applications (such as business process management and business activity monitoring), Exact Software may have gotten the wherewithal to almost be reckoned with uniform

Liberty Alliance vs. WS-I; J2EE vs. .NET; Overwhelmed .YET? Part 2 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The organization's goal is to work with other standards groups like, inter alia, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the Advancement ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/03/research_notes/EN_EV_PJ_03_21_02_1.asp - 19k Summary: The battle for the dominance in Web services has so far largely been a war of words without the clear winner yet (and not any time soon). While interoperability seems to currently be the motivation for bigger players to suspend hostilities and focus on standards adoption, the desire for domination will t

Architecture Evolution: Service-oriented Architecture versus Web ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Integration (UDDI). These are defined through public standards organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For example ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/09/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_09_20_06_1.asp - 21k Summary: Collaboration and interoperability are critical where multiple business units reside under one larger corporation, or where there is a requirement to integrate the system into a disparate system when a business-to-business or business-to-consumer extension is part of the business model.

Oracle Further Orchestrates Its SOA Forays Part Two: Strategy

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... It fully absorbs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML data model into the Oracle Database, and provides new standard access methods for navigating and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/03/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_03_15_05_1.asp - 21k Summary: Oracle's vision of a complete collaborative e-Business solution requires a database strategy, an application server strategy, and an e-business strategy. Will users buy into this vision?

Mid-market Getting the Taste of Some Emerging Technologies

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... It also features a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant XML interface enabling integration with most legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/07/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_07_05_04_1.asp - 25k Summary: Fledgling smart enterprise suite, business activity monitoring, and business process management technologies hold significant potential for end user organizations as they can accelerate the velocity of the business and deal with the details of everyday needs. The challenge is to fine-tune the system to d

Evolución de la arquitectura: arquitectura orientada a los ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... universales (UDDI). Esto se define a través de organizaciones públicas de estándares como el World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Por ejemplo ... http:/.../es/Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/09/research_notes/es/TU_ER_PJ_09_20_06_1.asp - 24k Summary: La colaboración y la interoperabilidad son críticas cuando residen múltiples unidades comerciales en una corporación grande, o cuando existe un requerimiento de integrar el sistema en un sistema dispar cuando una extensión interempresarial o negocio-cliente es parte del modelo comercial.