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Tuesday, 01 November 2011

Integration Headaches

Joe McKendrick writes Insurance Experts' Forum on October 25, 2011

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” That line has a ring of truth to it, but fortunately, the insurance industry for some time has had a common set of standards it can build around. And that is XML. No other standard has done more to bring disparate, siloed systems and data together within any industry than XML, or eXtensible Markup Language"

Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant, blogger and frequent INN contributor specializing in information technology. See the full post at Insurance Networking News

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