- Power to the BPEL: A technology for Web services
HEADNOTE Many technologies underlie and support Web services. BPEL is one of the key building blocks. One of the most promising visions of the Internet involves its use for dynamic, low-cost, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. For more than a decade, many consortiums, organizations, standards groups and vendors have attempted to establish ......
- Ontologies for corporate web applications
HEADNOTE In this article,1 we discuss some issues that arise when ontologies are used to support corporate application domains such as electronic commerce (e-commerce) and some technical problems in deploying ontologies for real-world use. In particular, we focus on issues of ontology integration and the related problem of semantic mapping, ......
- Internet infrastructure rivals smoke protocol peace pipe
HEADNOTE `Web services' rules-supported by XML, SOAP, HTTP, TCP/IP, and emerging UDDI It's hard to believe-even mind-- boggling to an industrial world bruised by a decade of turbulent and divisive "bus wars." But it's true. The next few years of integrating manufacturing supply chains and business services, using the Internet, ......
- NEON LAUNCHES LATEST XML TO EDI PRODUCT FOR
B2B.
New Era of Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON), an e-Business enabler, has launched its newest Business-to-Business (B2B) product, the PaperFree EDI Adapter. Combined with NEON's integration server family, the PaperFree EDI Adapter provides easy connection between XML and widely used EDI formats. NEON has incorporated PaperFree technology into its e-Business product ......
- XML Internet takes off--part 2
In my last column, I wrote about the progress stimulated by the widespread agreement on XML-the eXtensible Markup Languageand the three major areas of development: business-to-business standards such as RosettaNet; handling diverse device types by separating content from presentation; and middleware standards such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP-see ......
- Let's talk distribution: when it comes to supply
chain management, package delivery companies seem to have it down to a
science.
THE DOOR-TO-DOOR DELIVERY GUYS started honing their delivery management and distribution skills with handheld and wireless devices long before the rest of the commercial vehicle delivery fleets considered the possibilities. The impetus for mobile tracking of packages for these package delivery fleets started with a basic understanding of customer demands--and ......
- XML-based EAI: Revolution, not evolution
HEADNOTE Extensible markup language is key to accurate businessto-plant systems interfaces In a business world of continually changing products, markets, and economic environment manufacturers are recognizing that business-to-plant (B2P) information technology (IT) systems integration must also change. B2P systems must transform from traditional hard-coded, spaghetti-like point-topoint systems into newer and ......