The explosion of the popularity of the Internet in recent years has greatly increased the demand for better means of electronic connection in the whole world of computers. As you now know, B2B is about using electronic means to connect businesses in order that they become more efficient and effective in the pursuit of their individual corporate goals. Moreover, with almost forty years of experience in electronic connections, users of B2B systems have become increasingly sophisticated in their expectations of these systems. These factors combine to form an imperative to connect people, information, and processes, and this imperative is changing the way that software in all areas is being developed.
Successful business systems increasingly require interoperability across platforms and a range of flexible services that can easily evolve over time. XML appears to be becoming the universal standard for representing and transmitting structured data that is independent of programming language, software platform, and hardware. The term Web Services refers to new methods for integrating programs through standardized XML technologies with open, standardized interfaces that mask applications program interfaces (APIs).
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