XML Impacting the Enterprise

Tapping into the Power o XML: Five Success Stories

XML Impacting the Enterprise

Tapping into the Power o XML: Five Success Stories

XML: A Brie (and Successul) History

XML was introduced 10 years ago to improve the exchange o content over the web and enablelinking o siloed content repositories. Today it is experiencing a surge in popularity. Bothbusinesses and government agencies are embracing XML in large numbers. In a 2008 surveyo 700 sotware development proessionals using XML in multiple industries worldwide , 64%said their companies are expanding the overall amount o data they store in XML. Sixty-ninepercent said the number o XML les in their organization is growing.In just a ew years, we’ve seen the arrival—and widespread adoption—o a number o new andinnovative uses or XML:

Ofce Open XML:

With the advent o Microsot Oce 2007, a version o XML called OceOpen XML or Open XML became the underlying ormat or all Oce documents.

Standard XML Schemas:

XML schemas, which describe particular types o XML documents,are now available or many industries. These include the nancial products markup language(FPML), Darwin Inormation Typing Architecture (DITA) or technical inormation, and keyholemarkup language (KML) or geographic inormation.

Web 2.0:

XML enables popular web 2.0 capabilities like tagging, rating, annotating, and com-menting by allowing users to easily mark-up, add to, and enhance content.

SOA/Web Services:

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and web services are increasinglypopular because they simpliy the exchange o data among heterogeneous systems. SOA and webservices are based on XML standards, including the simple object access protocol (SOAP)—a specication or exchanging structured inormation in the implementation o web services—andweb services description language (WSDL), which provides a model or describing web services.

XQuery:

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) adopted XQuery as the XML query standardin January 2007. Increasing numbers o major sotware vendors—like Oracle and IBM—supportthis standard, leading to more XQuery books, training, and classes.

Federal Government Initiatives:

Numerous initiatives require ederal agencies to employ XML.XML is a key component o the emerging ederal enterprise architecture (FEA), which provides acommon methodology or IT acquisition, use, and disposal in the ederal government. XML is a ocuso the Emerging Technology group o the Federal CIO Architecture and Inrastructure Committee.The E-Government Act o 2002, which recommends the use o standards and guidelines or inter-connectivity and interoperability, has also included XML among its recommended standards.