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BEA Systems is announcing an upgrade to its WebLogic Integration software. WebLogic Integration provides business process integration; the upgrade emphasizes links to process tools, network management consoles, and business-to-business (b-to-b) integration.

Wal-Mart Stores is the only U.S. retailer that sells Mary-kateandashley One, a new fragrance branded by twin teenage entertainment moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Behind the scenes, fragrance and cosmetics manufacturer Coty depends on a hybrid business-to-business system that combines new standards and old technology -- older than the Olsen twins, in fact -- to keep Wal-Mart's shelves adequately stocked with the fragrance.

OASIS on Monday said it has formed an ebXML Business Process Technical Committee to further define the ebXML BPSS (e-business XML Business Process Specification Schema) model for business collaborations within and between enterprises.

Our call for predictions regarding the future of software development and Web services yielded a bumper crop of interesting insights.

A standards body working on protocols for Web services has begun crafting a specification for reliability that will help plug a hole in the budding technology that is stifling enterprise adoption.

OASIS will develop a generic model for ensuring reliable message delivery of Web services, the standards consortium announced on Wednesday.

Looking to capitalize on users' desire to trim EDI network charges and exploit emerging standards, EAI (enterprise application integration) vendors are increasingly touting their tools as a way to extend or replace existing EDI infrastructures.

John Duker, e-business infrastructure services architect at consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co., says things are moving fast these days as America's largest consumer products maker refashions its supply-chain technology to maximize its efficiency.

Closing out what shaped up as a season of standards proliferation, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Tuesday conferred official status on yet another specification aimed at enabling companies to conduct business over the Internet.

Cyclone Commerce Inc. will unveil the latest version of its trade connection management suite next week with new Web services capabilities to allow companies to ramp, manage and monitor their trading communities more securely and efficiently.

Momentum is quietly gathering behind a prospective standard for defining how Web services will find their way into the hands of business users.