The advantages of a data integration approach over Enterprise Application Integration are considerable.

PYMNTS.com featured two interviews this week with leaders in the NFC space. The first, with Mohammad Khan President and Founder of ViVOtech, in which Khan says that “the three most important [mobile] applications will be NFC mobile payments, mobile loyalty programs and merchant-driven mobile marketing and merchandizing.” Khan sees the future of payments shifting toward mobile as consumers grow increasingly attached to their devices. Jean-Louis Carrara of Gemalto describes NFC as the most significant breakthrough in the payments space since it will get users accustomed to the use of mobile wallets and accelerate the adoption of mobile financial services.

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On the eve of the RSA conference this year, Chris Comerford and Pete Soderling published a provocative article in Computerworld titled Why REST security doesn’t exist. It’s a prelude to a talk the author’s are delivering at the conference. Their premise is that while good REST security best practices do indeed exist, developers just don’t [...]

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Pour la deuxième année consécutive, BUSINESS WIRE, leader mondial de la diffusion d’information professionnelle, et PRODURABLE, le Salon des professionnels pour le Développement Durable & la RSE, qui se tiendra au CNIT de Paris La Défense les 17 et 18 mars 2010, ont annoncé la signature d’un accord de partenariat.

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Business-to-Business Services Improve Global Manufacturer's Ability to Meet Customer Commitments and Reduce Cycle Times with Suppliers

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JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced “XMetaL in 37 Minutes,” a new tips and tricks webinar series designed specifically for JustSystems partners who sell and deploy the XMetaL product line. Each webinar in the series will highlight different technical and application-related features or details of XMetaL products that will help partners gain added expertise and ultimately enable them to boost their bottom lines through XMetaL sales.

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Reed's, Inc. (NASDAQ: REED), maker of the top-selling sodas in natural food stores nationwide, announced today that it has established a new retail relationship with Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG). AWG has authorized six SKUs for the Reed's Ginger Brew line and six SKUs for Virgil's Soda line.

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This is a special edition of BASF's audio magazine for innovation on the occasion of the EU approval for commercial cultivation of the starch potato Amflora.

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This is a special edition of BASF's audio magazine for innovation on the occasion of the EU approval for commercial cultivation of the starch potato Amflora.

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Interoperability and standards are the latest buzzwords in the healthcare industry today. Use of standards is key to giving hospitals and doctors the capability to interoperate to share patient records better. IBM Research has been investigating the healthcare industry's evolution of standards, including the IHE and HL7 standards. This article offers a brief introduction to these standards and protocols, and it offers a scenario of an IBM DB2(R) pureXML(R) solution that follows the IHE QED protocol.

A recent blog on EBPML.ORG entitled “REST 2010 - Where are We?” very aggressively stated: “REST is just a "NO WS-*" movement.” The arguments presented are definitely interesting but the most compelling point made is in the way that REST APIs are constructed, namely that unlike the “ideal” REST API described where HTTP methods are used to define action (verb) and the path the resource (noun), practical implementations of REST are using a strange combination of both actions (verbs) and resources (nouns) in URIs. What this does is simulate very closely SOA services, in which the endpoint is a service (resource) upon which an action (method) is invoked. In the case of SOAP the action is declared either in the HTTP header (old skool SOAPaction) or as part of the SOAP payload. So the argument that most REST APIs, in practice, are really little more than a NO WS-* API is fairly accurate.

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The Cram Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Meridian Systems Consulting and Development Partner, announces general availability of ProjectXnet Cloud Hosting Services for Prolog Converge. Several ENR top 400 customers have already embraced the new hosted service offering. Prolog Converge adds a new web interface to the web services platform which The Cram Group has been hosting for customers since 2008. Prolog Converge permits applications and people to securely connect and share construction project information over the Internet. Designed using the latest in Service Oriented Architectures and XML technology, Prolog Converge allows organizations to integrate enterprise applications, and users to develop and use role-based applications such as Office Business Applications (OBAs) that connect to a centralized Prolog database. Companies with disbursed teams and collaborative partners can benefit from Prolog Converge as an extension to their existing investment in Prolog Manager.

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JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced that it has made the KMWorld magazine list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management for the third year in a row. The inclusion of JustSystems on the list further validates the company’s dedication to knowledge management and helping globally-focused businesses reuse content more effectively across their organizations.

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JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced “XMetaL in 37 Minutes,” a new tips and tricks webinar series designed specifically for JustSystems partners who sell and deploy the XMetaL product line. Each webinar in the series will highlight different technical and application-related features or details of XMetaL products that will help partners gain added expertise and ultimately enable them to boost their bottom lines through XMetaL sales.

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Next Generation Software Products Accelerate Standards Based Initiatives for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Markets

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ZyLAB, a leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, today announced it has joined the Sedona Conference RFP+ Group. The mission of the RFP+ Group is to provide input to the Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production when that Group, and/or its special project teams, is working on an issue involving the use of technology/ services provided by electronic discovery/electronic information management vendors, and to help create tools and solutions that will benefit the entire marketplace. This participation and the company’s support of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), demonstrates ZyLAB’s dedication to building eDiscovery solutions built on a common, flexible and extensible framework.

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At the upcoming LTE IOT interoperability event, MSF will introduce robustness testing. MSF is the first industry forum to include security testing in its program. The MSF LTE IOT event will take place March 15-26.

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TigerLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: TIGR) est heureux d'annoncer qu'il procédera à une démonstration de son béta développeur Omnis Studio 5 pour iPhone lors du salon international CeBIT dans le hall 3, stand K20, qui se tiendra du 2 au 6 mars 2010 à Hanovre, en Allemagne. Omnis Studio 5 offre désormais la possibilité de développer des applications pour l'iPhone(R), l'iPod touch(R) et l'iPad d'Apple qui sortira prochainement.

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