“Search for Web services leads to Google”

“No one has caught the attention of developers the way Google has,” said Jason Bloomberg, analyst with industry consultants ZapThink.

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ZapNote: PRAJA

In this information-overload, rapid-fire environment of informed decision making, business users of all types need the ability to quickly assimilate information from a wide range of data sources, develop business insights from this information, monitor and react to the changing business environment, and create and disseminate new ideas and initiatives throughout the enterprise. Continual Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions allow users to be interactively informed of information in an event-driven manner. Through its ExperienceWare application suite, PRAJA provides a robust, patented Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution and development platform that organizes content around events and contextually organizes vast amounts of structured and unstructured data in a unified, context-aware view.

ZapNote: Jabber

Initially created as an open-source Instant Messaging (IM) platform, Jabber’s XMPP protocol has emerged as a general protocol for streaming XML data and Web Services. Offered as an alternative to HTTP, SMTP, and FTP, Jabber provides value in making Web Services more reliable and scalable. It also offers a compelling solution for those interested in a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications format, although the protocol isn’t a P2P protocol per se.