Archive for April, 2006

Software as a service

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Support for eVision’s technology and business strategy has been appearing more and more frequently in the recent IT press. While it is early days for the “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) model there are an increasing number of successful examples appearing and they are also reporting healthy growth rates.
Mark Jones of the Australian Financial Review, in his article [...]

The basics of message translation

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

As we found out in our last exciting chapter, MXC is designed to accept messages in varying formats from various systems, validate, route and translate them into different formats, and send them on to other systems — hence the name MessageXchange (MXC for short).
Messages come in, in whatever format (XML, EDI, flatfile etc), by whatever [...]