Karl B. Schwamb (kbs@colonnadesoftware.com) is President of Colonnade Software (http://www.colonnadesoftware.com/), a consulting firm specializing in distributed systems. He has led systems design and development efforts for several Fortune 500 companies, primarily in the area of Financial Services. Many of these systems employ cutting edge technology such as XML, Java, middleware, and intelligent systems in environments that demand high-availability, high-throughput, and security.
The publishing industry has long used markup languages in the production of
publications to a general readership. Now XML greatly facilitates the design
of publishing systems whose capabilities include not only control of
formatting, but also control of content selection according to the needs of
the individual reader.
Customers of financial services firms don't need to settle for advice written
to a general readership; they can receive plans so personalized and uniquely
suited to them that they'll feel a team of experts conferred regarding their
situations and wrote specific, 200-page recommendations for planning their
financial futures.
Through the application of XML standards and technologies to the financial
planning process, the system described in this article aut... (more)
Business users spend a great deal of money on new software systems. For this
they demand faithful implementation of their project objectives. And they
expect enough visibility into an application to verify that their goals have
been implemented. This visibility also ensures that changes can be identified
to satisfy new business goals.
One approach to meeting these objectives is the use of... (more)
Karl B. Schwamb (kbs@colonnadesoftware.com) is President of Colonnade Software (http://www.colonnadesoftware.com/), a consulting firm specializing in distributed systems. He has led systems design and development efforts for several Fortune 500 companies, primarily in the area of Financial Services. Many of these systems employ cutting edge technology such as XML, Java, middleware, and intelligent systems in environments that demand high-availability, high-throughput, and security.
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