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applied by Maio Consulting® will make data talk. Imagine using a web-based search engine tailored specifically
for your business and requesting information on “breakdown of major maintenance costs”. The XML StackTM consists of the following concepts:
| - Meta-Data
– Depending on the current technology used by your business, the existing
meta-data layer can be leveraged to build Web Services. Many organizations have invested in popular off-the-shelf
Export, Transformation & Loading (ETL) tools which capture database schema definitions. The schema definitions found
in these toolsets can be used as input to tools which build web services. Microsoft BizTalk provides the ability
to develop a series of web services based upon meta-data information as well as using direct data source access
information.
| - Web Services – There are many
tools sets provided by Microsoft, Oracle and others that can easily generate web services. The organization
of these web services is best developed by using existing business process models.
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- Universal
Description, Delivery & Integration (UDDI) – The UDDI manages available
web services used by your business. The web services available both internally and externally provide input
to tools which combine web service XML data to form common business vocabulary. As the XML is combined into common
vocabulary, new XML results are generated. The new XML results are then related to new vocabulary and combined
with other vocabulary elements.
| - Business Process Model – Many
organizations have created business process models and have found that these models provide invaluable insight
about their business. Maio Consulting® uses existing business process models to define common vocabulary
or concepts within the XML StackTM.
By combining the business process models with the XML StackTM within popular work process automation tools, your business can be optimized through
iterative analysis between the XML StackTM and
key performance indicators related to your business processes.
| - Common Semantics,
Vocabulary & Information Model & Business Process Model – Many tools
are available that assist with relating web service data to a common vocabulary contained within a dictionary
and/or thesaurus. In addition, these tools allow for the creation of new vocabulary from existing vocabulary. As
the business vocabulary is developed, more difficult concepts are built by combining several lower level vocabulary
elements together. In reality, the end user is visualizing these concepts, but behind the scenes the concepts are
several layers of aggregated XML. Thus, tools in the marketplace which offer a common semantics or vocabulary
are providing the ability to transform data into conversational concepts. Since the aggregation of XML data
into vocabulary and eventually into conversational concepts is possible, the resultant XML is much easier for
your business to interpret.
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