XML: Missing Link for B2B E-Commerce
Despite the ubiquitous Internet, the absence of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards makes open, direct, affordable exchange of information among disparate applications a pipe dream for most organizations. Will the much-heralded Extensible Markup Language (XML) finally bring the full benefits of business-to-business e-commerce to light? David Ritter
Ties That Bind
Many organizations would covet the ability to more easily share transactions and data among internal applications as well as with external partners. The XML-based conceptual model presented here offers a feasible framework for integrating customer information from separate servers, platforms, and databases. AREIEL WOLANOW & JENS KAEMMERER available only in print edition (subscribe)
Toward Value-Added Decision Support
Creating, managing, and exploiting analytical data used to be hard. Now huge volumes of operational data, multiple access paths to information, and availability of analytical and transformation tools of every type are offering new opportunities for integrated, “value-added” decision support. SETH GRIMES
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