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We're very encouraged by the increased availability of XML data interfaces in the corporate sector. Much of this is being driven by larger enterprises in the context of B2B transactions, and so is increasingly becoming an issue for SMEs. The technology has been around for long enough - but the gap was always in the willingness from the bigger players to get their information organised. We've seen XML-based data exchanges become an important requirement over 2008 for a variety of different applications across diverse industry sectors.
A good example is with a company's human resources data. Once a company has some structure to their HR data and that data is available via the web, then all sorts of secondary services can be structured upon that initial information. Which can save a mass of double-data entry as the staff base changes over time!
We're also seeing strong support for a open standards-based approach to XML data interfaces. There seems a consensus that it is in everyone's interest to agree a standard and stick to it - which is perhaps rarer than it should be in IT!
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