XML in the Content Lifecycle Report: Creating, Managing, Publishing, Syndicating, and Protecting Content with XML

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The market for XML content lifecycle solutions is expected to grow from $1.8 Billion in 2003 to over $11.6 Billion by 2008.
Producers of content in the enterprise spend over 60% of their time locating, formatting, and structuring content and just 40% of their time actually creating it.
By 2008, about [...]

Service-Oriented Process Report: Meeting the Requirements of Business Agility through SOA-Based Business Process

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Service-Oriented Process is Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements
Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.
The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008.
The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, [...]

The Pros and Cons of Web Services Report

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List of Arguments

Pro: Web Services are standards-based. Pro: Web Services’ loose coupling leads to increased modularity and flexibility in complex, distributed IT environments. Pro: Since Web Services are dynamically described, they will lead to systems that can be upgraded automatically. Pro: Web Services reduces integration costs. Pro: Web Services simplify Business [...]

SOA Tools and Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services

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Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over [...]

Report: Apple set to acquire iPhone app maker Siri

Report: Apple set to acquire iPhone app maker Siri
Macworld – Apple may be on the verge of acquiring Siri , the company behind the eponymous iPhone app that serves as a voice-driven personal assistant , according to a report at Wired . A Siri representative told the publication that the acquisition was imminent, but the [...]

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