xfy, XML and SOA

Unpredictable markets and fierce competition are forcing today’s organizations to find new ways to adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage. Companies are looking past yesterday’s rigid, tightly-coupled information technologies toward flexible, adaptable services-oriented approaches. Services oriented architecture (SOA) has become the prevailing approach for application development because it leverages existing investments and provides business with new insight by unlocking the value of previously isolated information.

XML Comes of Age

XML has spread to every facet of the IT architecture as the backbone technology for SOA. Today's services and information are being broken down into smaller and meaningful parts by XML. As a result, information technology is evolving from an era of information management in application silos to an era of enterprise information systems integrated by data and process descriptions using XML.

With XML as a pervasive medium for information access and exchange, there’s a new opportunity for companies to accelerate the path to ROI in their services oriented projects. With XML firmly in place, forward thinking organizations will look to native XML applications to unify access to information and rapidly develop new business applications for cost reduction, revenue growth and differentiation.

SOA 2.0: Lightweight Approaches for Rapid ROI

During the initial generations of SOA, many organizations found themselves mired in technology, process and cultural change. Today, organizations are looking to capitalize on the infrastructure investments they’ve already made—or to shortcut some of these investments altogether—to achieve rapid return on investment through lighter weight approaches to SOA. Key to this are new composite application frameworks and so-called “mash ups” that allow organizations to decentralize application development to lines of business. Using these lightweight approaches, business users can rapidly create high-impact applications with little or no programming.

xfy: The Solution for Native XML Applications

Until now, there was no simple tool for business users to easily consolidate data with content distributed among disparate sources. xfy was designed expressly to overcome this challenge.

The powerful combination of SOA and XML allows organizations to take advantage of existing information assets and combine them with new sources to create new business value.

Learn more about how xfy can help your organization transform business processes by bridging two worlds divided—unifying content and data in an information rich, live document.