DocX

The goal of the DocX Service is to provide a community platform for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and business-to-business (B2B) document exchange, using Extensible Markup Language (XML), both within the enterprise and with your supply chain.

Extend your Application
Real-time integration of disparate software applications effectively 'extends' each application, without jeopardising security, privacy & individuality. Here's how :

a. The sending application 'sends' a document to the recieving application.

b. As the document is 'entered' into the recipient's application*, the sender recieves immediate acknowledgment, which is stored as status in the sending application. Thus, the sending application has been 'extended' by including status of document sent. ( This status was not present earlier.)

c. The recieving application processes the document (data) independently. The result of such process is another document, which is sent to the original sending application. Once again the process is repeated and the status of this document is stored in the application.

d. With the swift flow of more & more document between applications of a community, each individual application starts behaving like an (interconnected) 'module' of a larger system which serves the entire community.

e. Ultimately, multiple software applications integrate with each other in real-time, thereby resulting in more powerful, new solutions.

* After due checking & authorisation by user at recieving end.

XML
The design emphasis is to use XML to integrate your existing data models, solutions, and application infrastructure, and adapt them for electronic commerce.