CAP Ventures Announces XML Early Adopter Study at Documation '99 West.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1999--CAP Ventures Inc., the leading world-wide supplier of strategic consulting and research services for document technologies markets, today announced the industry's first market study on the early adopters of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , or Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. . The formal announcement and study scope was unveiled at Documation '99 West, which is underway this week in Santa Clara, CA. The study is a project of CAP Ventures' Dynamic Content Software Strategies Consulting Service Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ). The research phase of the project is currently in progress. The study will provide vital market information to all software vendors and service providers. In addition, it will prove useful for end-user companies who are evaluating the viability of XML projects. The research will uncover user motivations for employing XML, identify the corporate applications it will be used for most frequently by early adopters, and estimate spending on XML projects through 1999. It will also gauge the industry standards and vocabularies related to XML in which users are most interested. Data for the study will be collected through 250 telephone interviews with companies that have XML-based IT projects either planned or underway. "We are excited about this research. The market for XML is in a very early stage, and although many software vendors are selling XML-aware products, vendors and users, alike, still have many questions," commented Michael Maziarka, DSS Director. "Our research will enable us to even more authoritatively answer these important questions and provide insights to future directions." XML is an emerging standard, and is a "recommendation" of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) that has been written for the creation and interchange of structured documents and data. Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. and electronic commerce are two primary applications for XML. The standard also applies to other enterprise solutions, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , that require information exchange between applications, both within and between companies. For more information about DSS, including the variety of services the group offers and the markets it covers, visit http://www.capv.com/dss CAP Ventures is the leading worldwide strategic consulting and market research firm serving the document software, electronic imaging, document management and digital printing and publishing industries. CAP Ventures provides technology advice and market insights for vendors, manufacturers and corporate users through custom and subscription consulting, market research, seminars, training, industry conferences, trade shows and publications. CAP Ventures is included on the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies for both 1997 and 1998. Website: http:\\www.capv.com |
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