Construction Executive’s February 2010 article titled “XML for Construction: The Language of Communication,” touched an important topic in the software solution industry. XML or Extensible Markup Language makes transferring information from different systems possible. Few construction management software companies have the capabilities to use XML for their software integrations as yet.
At Projectmates, we have been using XML in our 3rd party integration for a long time already and we have the ability to integrate enterprise software solutions so they can ‘speak to one another’. Projectmates’ XML built-in adapter helps create bridges among other enterprise-level software, making integration easy and seamless, and performed with the least amount of business interruption.
XML helps solve the two major challenges of application integration – data formatting and interpretation. Helping to overcome these two major integration complexities in and by itself helps the integration process immensely. It’s easy to take XML for granted now that enterprise-wide integration using XML is getting to be more common. Before XML, programmers had to spend countless hours creating their own interpretation languages in text files. This was naturally a longer, more complicated and more expensive process. XML became the common denominator for two existing ERPs, making life easier for everyone. The Association of General Contractors (AGC) is taking this one step further to create AGCXML which will serve to create even more uniformity in XML and how it is used in the construction industry based on common industry standards. So in case of Projectmates, it can talk to your existing ERP systems very fluently, so to speak...
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