XTech 2005: XML, the Web and beyond.
This session will show the vision of the integration of Wiki content with external data using Web Services API with practical examples using Flickr, Google, Amazon, RSS Calendar, Bloglines, Delicious put also enterprise applications.
Wikis are powerfull Knowledge Management tools that are more and more used by companies worldwide to share information and knowledge.
Wikis have proven highly efficient with a bottom-up approach to foster collaboration in teams both local or remote.
Now Web Services are becoming the norm for Web Applications.
Major Internet application have Web Services API. Companies like Google, Amazon or eBay have Web Services at the heart of their strategy. Open Standards like RSS or Web Services are being used in almost all successfull applications today. New tools like Flickr, Blogger have had APIs right from the beginning and it has been an important reason for success.
Inside the entreprise Service Oriented Applications are becoming the norm. Big companies are more and more architecturing their Informations Systems around services and especially web services. Corporate Infrastructure are getting more modular.
Both on the Internet and inside companies, information available in external applications are great additions to the content shared by users on Wikis.
Enterprise Information is much more valuable when presented in the right context which is allowed by presenting this information in Wiki pages.
The easy editing in Wikis allows to reconfigure the way information is presented in real-time.
Thanks to Web Services API it is possible to make it very simple to integrate entreprise information right inside Wiki pages.
We will show demonstration of how this can be done and made simple. We will mainly demonstrate these capibilities using public Web Services but will also show real examples done by real companies.
Finally we will show a vision of how this will work in the future once all Internet and Enterprise Applications are available as Web Services.
Ludovic Dubost
Founder, XPertNet
Prior to create XWiki, Ludovic Dubost was CTO of NetValue one of the first Internet startup to make an IPO on the French stock market. There with a Internet specialist team he built the measurement technology that is now used by the leader of Internet Measurement Nielsen//NetRatings. Prior to join NetValue, Ludovic was senior Consultant at Netscape Communications Europe, where he architectured and developped major Internet and Intranet systems. Among these systems were the advertisment publishing system of Pagine Gialle, the Dealers Extranet of Renault, the knowledge repository of Airbus.Ludovic has graduated in 1990 from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.