Intelligent Enterprise

For enterprise content integration (ECI), potential solutions include choices that go beyond mere connectivity to support sophisticated indexing, search and virtual repositories. XML, JSR 170 and other standards figure prominently. ECI implementation is still at the early adopter stage; vendors are jockeying for future dominance as organizations place increasing priority on cross-functional business processes and real-time information delivery.

Integration at a higher level — at something approaching natural language — holds great promise, especially as “Semantic Web” standards evolve. Semantic integration is a key strategic direction for both structured data and unstructured content integration because it focuses on meaning: that is, how pieces of information relate to each other. This is significant not only to human use of information but also to computer-based processes, applications and Web services that must respond in real time to customer activity and other business events.

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