In today's demand-driven economy, companies can gain competitive advantage by connecting the strategic practices of sourcing with the operational tactics of purchasing and collaboration. Hence Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is what one needs to turn the way to acquire goods and services into a strategic advantage. It enables to achieve greater …

Congratulations – you've landed your first big enterprise client. Now you need to do what you said you'd do, and make everyone happy in the process. This article will show you how to use techniques for visibility and verification to do most things – setting up processes and systems, doing QA …

I will first try to explain what SOAP really is, and no I’m not talking about the substance which dissolves in water and is used as a cleansing agent. SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol, is a standard developed by the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C. org) as a standardized object invocation …

IntroductionDuring the course of this article, I’ll use the phrases ‘RSS document’ and ‘RSS feed’ interchangeably. They’re really the same thing, since a feed is simply an RSS XML document located at a particular URL. It’s up to the provider on how often the RSS feed is refreshed.The RSS feed could …

SubversionSubversion (called “SVN”) is a version control system that seeks to be the replacement for Concurrent Versioning System (CVS). If you’re a CVS user, there are many reasons to migrate to Subversion, including features like atomic commits, database (Berkeley DB) back-end, and the ability to easily rename files. Best of all, …

XML – Information Interchange Backbone for ApplicationsToday, when XML is used as a platform-independent data exchange format, it can assist in solving a number of problems.XML is beginning to play a role in a number of industries including the financial services industry. Most notable applications of XML include Real-Time Integration, Global …