Two good articles in InfoWorld:
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Next-gen enterprise apps: “With greater amounts of data exposed as XML and tied together via Web services, enterprises are looking to lash together compenentized business processes to attack business problems with the best parts of existing applications. These emerging collaborative or composite applications will combine functions from multiple application systems to execute a larger, near real-time process that will then be published as a Web service.”
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Collaborative challenges: “Several thorny problems need to be solved to make collaborative applications work, including data transformation, business process coordination, and transactionality.”
