B2B Means A2A
Probably the fastest growing area of development continues to be around the concept of business-to-business (B2B) communication. B2B computing systems have been around for decades. Teller machines talk to banks, cash registers talk to credit processing companies, inventory flow systems procure new product from vendors, logistics systems obtain tracking information from shippers, and so on. B2B means that the flow of information is from application to application.
On the Web a person enters data…. Whoa. That doesn't seem right. Why does the Internet mean that people need to get involved? Well, it doesn't. Clever designers figured out a long time ago that they could write programs to read the contents of an HTML document or user interface ...
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