IT and the Now Economy. Traditionally, real time collaboration is accomplished through expensive, proprietary message-oriented middleware products or monolithic RPC architectures. But in an era of firewalls, unreliable network connections, mobile devices, and heterogeneous platforms, new solutions are desperately needed.

Get the Complete Picture. Many dotcoms and other e-commerce ventures fail to recognize that the data architect is an indispensable member of the project team. In fact, they may not even know what a data architect is.