“Wacky World of Web Services”

Current revenues from Web services are puny – just $380 million for all of 2001, according to estimates from ZapThink LLC, a Waltham, Mass.-based market research group. But ZapThink expects that to balloon to more than $15.5 billion once software services over the Internet become prevalent.

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ZapNote: UDICo

While real-time message-based architectures are great for distributing on-line transactions, however its capability for handling high volume loads comes into question. One of the vendors solving this problem is the Universal Data Interface Company (UDICo). Their product, TierBroker, can process large volumes of data using a mechanism that creates middleware that connects directly to data sources and exposes them as Web Services to end clients in a small footprint that can be embedded in Excel and Word applications. The product can talk to XML as well as non-XML systems, message-oriented middleware systems including MQSeries and TIBCO, or other systems using SOAP over HTTP.

ZapNote: FRx Software

Leveraging the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), and XML format for business financial reporting, FRx Forecaster (formerly ebudgets.com) has launched a product that uses XML to aggregate budgetary and financial information across many enterprise and legacy systems.

ZapNote: Infoteria

Infoteria’s Asteria Platform and Business Language Objects for XML (BLOX) provide a comprehensive solution for transporting, integrating, and manipulating XML within the context of e-Business transactions, with a particular focus on the RosettaNet specifications. Their comprehensive B2B automation and integration platform, along with componentized business functionality, will help to simplify and enable scalable and robust B2B integration applications.