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Leveraging XML open standards to integrate your business. (Industry Commentary).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1179 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
I"ve been focused on defining product strategy for business integration software for the past seven years. During that time I've watched XML go from being a fledgling document standard with lots of potential to a core technology that is critical for business integration. In this article, I'm going to discuss some of the reasons behind XML's meteoric rise in the business integration space and some of the ways we at IBM are leveraging XML in our integration products.

Why Has XML Become Central in Integration Products?

It's flexible: XML's ability to handle a diverse array of information formats and to readily transform data from one kind of document type to another makes it the perfect medium for integration. You can use XML for processing business documents that are simple in structure as well as for processing documents that are complex and highly structured. XML can also be used to query relational databases accessing sets of data in a rows and columns tabular format. It can then take the data, regardless of the source, structure, or format,...

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