The adoption of XML technology requires easy-to-use solutions for everyone in the enterprise. From simplifying the delivery of cross-media publishing to creating unprecedented possibilities for visual interfaces, XML-based smart content promises to dramatically change the way companies create, exchange and interact with information.

Corel XML technologies enable the enterprise to reduce costs, accelerate productivity and create new revenue streams. Please join Bruce Sharpe as he discusses Corel's solutions that deliver on the promise of XML.

Once technology players agree on and deploy Web services standards, then what? What will be the real impact on doing real business? Web services standards and XML standards are like networks of train tracks and switching stations. But without trains, freight can't move. So while Web services will make it easier and faster to connect and communicate, the intangible "informal memory" for doing business has yet to be articulated, much less captured.

Dave Hollander, co-chair of W3C's XML Schemas Working Group and Web Services Architecture Working Group, explores how to "get beyond XML" through understanding the need to formalize the informal semantic networks and individual knowledge databases that make business possible today.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used VoiceXML to build a Web-based system that provides public access to a database of more than 3,000 Local Emergency Planning Committees. Applications developed with VoiceXML open the Internet to people who cannot use a computer keyboard, whether they are visually impaired, use only a wireless phone or do not have Internet access.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys content network incorporates NextPages NXT 3 P2P Platform. This P2P technology enables distributed content in an XML format to be converted to VoiceXML applications. Many companies have at least one service that could be voice-based, and deployed through the Internet using VoiceXML.

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XML Schema is the ideal object model to develop web services. Using a model-based approach to building Web Services can dramatically cut development and management cycles.

XML Schema is being used to unify the variety of application models that need to be managed independently today - Delivery (WSDL), Presentation (XForms), Application Logic (EJB/Java/COM) and Persistence (SQL). Model-based approaches, however, necessitate Web Service management infrastructure to facilitate their rapid adoption within the enterprise.

Sunil Gaitonde
Co-Founder, President and CEO
Sarvega, Inc.

Enterprises are seeking ways to more efficiently manage the interchange of content between complex networks of customers, suppliers and partners. XML-based systems add intelligence to the exchange and delivery of data; however to realize the true benefits of XML, organizations must implement intelligent solutions that are scalable, reliable, high-speed and secure.

This session describes a new technology, intelligent XML switching - already being deployed in Fortune 500 enterprises - that leverages a unique XML-based architecture to deliver any-to-any XML communication by processing any form of XML and delivering it to any device in any format, providing organizations the benefits of the real-time enterprise.

This presentation will examine the issues and challenges associated with presenting legacy image and print formats via a Portal - including "How to maintain content fidelity" - together with how Automated Content Transformation & Access technologies can be used to reduce the level of effort required.

One of the keys to the success of Web Services is the widespread adoption of standards for metadata. XML Schemas, WSDL (Web Services Description Language), WSIL (Web Services Inspection Language), and other formats of XML metadata allow vendors to achieve real interoperability between Web Service implementations.

In this session, we will examine the metadata standards that make RAD Web Services development a reality. We will also demonstrate how developers can build simple applications that access XML metadata to create their own Web Services and clients.

Brookfield Homes is an exciting study of how a single-source, XML-based Content Management System is used by non-technical content experts. Brookfield did not have a large software, services, training, or support budget for this project, and yet was able to successfully implement Web content management at Brookfield Homes.

Today sales and marketing experts in several North American offices easily create and update content and images with minimal training and support. Learn projected and actual ROI, how Eric gained corporate buy-in, enforcing corporate branding, how the new technology and processes were accepted, and much more.

Web Services is emerging as the key vehicle for enabling and integrating a company's e-business infrastructure. Web Services allow enterprises to provide or consume information about products and services over the Web using standard Internet protocols such as XML. The structure provided by Web Services, coupled with these standards, will support new generations of application development and legacy systems integration. A Web Services framework enables organizations to better integrate both internal and external applications and create new business opportunities that can leverage the power of the Internet for existing IT investments. This session will define and explore a Web Services framework, based on key J2EE and XML integration concepts, and discuss its potential for use in any organization.

XML, with its standard, portable, and extensible characteristics is being used in mainstream production applications to represent business documents between diverse and often physically remote systems. By using dynamic, XML business documents to support asynchronous, long-running transaction, IT organizations are building new Web Services applications that leverage existing infrastructure and information assets.

But managing data in an active state requires a unique set of features to maximize flexibility and performance that differs greatly from features required for being the system of record, and where a relational database is tuned for storing durable data an XML database is tuned for managing active data. The alternatives for managing XML range from flat files to relational databases to native XML database - each having diverse features and each being designed for diverse usages.

This presentation will:
- Define role and position of "de facto" Web services standards
- Examine latest XML technologies
- Learn how to effectively use XML to manage Web services
- Discuss potential for Web services