Chapter Seventeen. The “Verticalization” of Application Integration Technology
It has been a clear trend in the world of application integration to customize solutions for particular problem domains, such as vertical industries. This means providing specific connectors, formats, transformation, and behaviors that have value for verticals such as finance, manufacturing/retail/distribution (MRD), telecommunications, health care, and other areas that have particular application integration requirements, inter- or intracompany.
Typically, vertical application integration solutions are built around standards such as RosettaNet, UCCnet, and ebXML (see in-depth coverage in Part III) for MRD; HIPAA for health care; and GSTP, Omgeo, and SWIFT for finance. ...
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