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Portals Open Doors to Processes
Penny Lunt
Outgrowing their original role as information consolidators, portals are becoming a platform for accessing and
managing processes. So-called "process portals" eliminate workers' wasted time logging in and out of applications
and offer simplified interfaces to complex enterprise applications. Examples from Hewlett-Packard, National Century
Financial Enterprises, IMS Health and Perficient Software show the way to the next stages of portal development.
Document & Content Services Directory 2002
Lowell Rapaport & Doug Henschen
Whether it's data entry, content tagging or HTML coding, many the document or content task is labor intensive.
And where there is labor, there is cost. Offshore service bureaus promise labor savings of up to 60 percent, so
it's no surprise that they're thriving. To this year's Document and Content Services Directory, we add perspectives
on the advantages and potential pitfalls of going offshore.
Business Rules
Choreography: The Next Step for Web Services
Bruce Silver
Web services evangelists have painted a disarmingly simple picture of process integration. You
just find a Web service using UDDI, bind to its WSDL and invoke it using SOAP. In a real-world
scenario in which all tasks in a business process are implemented as Web services, you need
something more: a standard for how multiple Web services comprising a business process can
be choreographed into one coherent flow.
Theory and Practice
What's Next After DVD?
Lowell Rapaport
The entertainment industry is currently wrangling over which new storage format it will rally
around for consumer high-definition video. Why is this decision important for business? Because
consumer media formats are typically adopted as standards for computer data storage.
The Pitfalls of Passwords
Lowell Rapaport
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Context
Transform Takes Silver
Words from the Editor
Content & Collaboration
Make More of Content With Personalization & Integration
Content management software vendors are moving beyond the basics of making content
available to Web site visitors. In Cytura's case, the company's Contenuity system adds content
personalization and business process integration prowess to the usual Web publishing
features.
Scan & Capture
A Digital Duo Offers Scanning Appeal
Offering easy options for capturing documents electronically, the Xerox Document Center 555 and
Hewlett-Packard 9000mfp are among the latest multi-function machines designed to
scan, copy and print.
Product Briefs
Tech Selections
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