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Transactions aplenty: classifying transactions to set expectations. (Definitions).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-AUG-02
Format: Online - approximately 785 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In the world of automation, the ambiguous can be a beautiful thing or it can be a nightmare. To those responsible for delivering a solution, ambiguity leads to missed expectations, higher costs for delivery, and delays in completion. To those providing solutions, ambiguity leads to opportunity.

One of the most overused and ambiguous words in the IT industry today is transaction. Over the years, the transaction has come to mean so many different things depending on whether you have a business perspective or a technology perspective. Recently, however, the business and technology perspectives have begun to coincide at management levels. This makes the goal of communicating the vision and goal of a project even more difficult...

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