Information week profiles a number of companies including Disney, ING, parts of the Justice Department and Microsoft
who are quickly adopting RSS for internal use. The opt-in nature of RSS and the ability to target really specific
content makes it really attractive for companies wanting to break the email/intranet communication impasse.
Companies are also looking at RSS as a data integration protocol. After the complexity of
SOAP, the industry did try to create something called
ICE that has not gotten much traction. The popularity of RSS makes it a
possible replacement for ICE. The forever running EDI/Data Integration projects were replaced by
EAI, where companies just gave up on
integrating and just started putting a pretty face of old applications and data. RSS could push the EAI concept to
finally unlock enterprise data.
1. Yeah. I think you have a point here. RSS can really replace SOAP in a lot of situations.
http://www.feedblog.org/2005/08/feeds_replacing_1.html
Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Kevin Burton