webMethods Announces Support for W3C XML Schema for Use across Business-to-Business Integration - Brief Article

Information Superhighways Newsletter, Oct, 2000

webMethods Inc. announced support for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema, a model for describing the structure and content of XML documents. webMethods is the first B2B integration (B2Bi) vendor to offer support for the April 2000 drafts of the W3C XML Schema, which provides users with enhanced capabilities when automating business processes. B2Bi requires rich data structures that convey the complete information necessary for both data integration and the automation of B2B business processes. The W3C XML Schema enables increased data integrity, enabling richer and faster business transactions.

Introduced in 1998, webMethods B2B was the first product to deliver XML-based e-commerce solutions to quickly and securely integrate the diverse technology and business processes of companies and their trading partners. The announcement builds on this technology by delivering expanded functionality to address the requirements for richer data integrity. Business processes that are improved with the W3C XML Schema include e-commerce, customer relationship management, strategic enterprise management and planning, business intelligence, supply chain management, human resources, logistics, manufacturing, financial services, and knowledge management.