Rachel Helm serves as director of product market management, WebSphere Business Integration, at IBM, where she has overall responsibility for product planning for IBM's WebSphere business integration middleware. Rachel has been involved in the software industry for more than 20 years, working in product planning and management, product development, and consulting.
I've been focused on defining product strategy for business integration
software for the past seven years. During that time I've watched XML go from
being a fledgling document standard with lots of potential to a core
technology that is critical for business integration. In this article, I'm
going to discuss some of the reasons behind XML's meteoric rise in the
business integration space and some of the ways we at IBM are leveraging XML
in our integration products.
Why Has XML Become Central in Integration Products?
It's flexible: XML's ability to handle a diverse array of information formats
and to readily transform data from one kind of document type to another makes
it the perfect medium for integration. You can use XML for processing
business documents that are simple in structure as well as for processing
documents that are complex and highly structured. XML can... (more)
Rachel Helm serves as director of product market management, WebSphere Business Integration, at IBM, where she has overall responsibility for product planning for IBM's WebSphere business integration middleware. Rachel has been involved in the software industry for more than 20 years, working in product planning and management, product development, and consulting.
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