Efficient data integration has become a staple in the insurance and financial services industries. EDI-and now XML standards-have revolutionized data exchange between producers, carriers, agents, and clients.
Recognizing the increasing need to exchange data globally, and allowing different programming languages to talk to one another, Microsoft is taking a step toward opening up its once proprietary languages to multiple platforms-even Linux!-and allowing the languages to talk to one another.
"One of the things Microsoft has been smart about this time is providing a framework people are going to use that won't alienate anybody else," says Doug Seven, coauthor of Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.Net and CEO of codejunkies.net. "It's almost as if everybody in the world can suddenly speak the same language."
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