Vol: 4 Iss: 3

Integration Matters The challenge of integrating software and systems will always be with us. In the brief but turbulent history of information technology, creation and destruction go hand in hand. Old technologies and approaches give way to new ones... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 13,941

XBRL for Business Reporting Industry consortia are increasingly coming together to draw up XML standards for businesses. One of the major emerging standards is XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language. Organized by more than 170 finance, accounting, regu... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 8,201

An Introduction to BSML Over the past two decades, the life sciences industry has taken a dramatic leap into an online, collaborative world. Tasks and activities that are commonplace today were either extremely difficult or outright impossible just 20 ye... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 9,131

XML Schemas in an Object-Oriented Framework XML Schemas provide the grammar and constraints of XML documents. Given the increasing prevalence of XML as a data and command transport format in enterprise software systems across industries, it's important to have a methodology... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 10,932  Replies: 1

Developing Complex XSLT Scripts XSLT is a declarative language designed for transforming XML documents into documents in any format. In developing large-scale XSLT scripts, software qualities such as flexibility and maintainability become issues. To address thos... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 8,408

Building a Real-World Web Service - Part 2 No, Web services isn't just hype. This series of articles will show you that Web services are real and can provide great benefits to organizations today. The series demonstrates how to build a real-world Web service by combining the... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 8,724

Integration Is the Killer App In 1975 Niklaus Wirth, the Swiss computer scientist who created the Pascal programming language, published a seminal book entitled Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. If Wirth had written about business applications, Computin... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 16,951

XML and Integration Better known in the i-technology world as enterprise application integration (EAI), B2B integration, or middleware, integration involves connecting internal systems with external business partners, customers, and suppliers. Integr... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 10,290

Can Software Cross the Standards Divide? No standards movement in the history of the software industry has garnered as much attention or support as Web services. After the previous decade's failed attempts to reach unity, the industry has lauded the promise of more flexi... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 11,169

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 Part 1 Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 provides an out-of-box solution for integrating internal systems and external business partners. BizTalk Server 2002 is its second generation, succeeding BizTalk Server 2000. It is built on top of a c... Feb. 27, 2003  Reads: 9,584