XML still needs to develop as a business tool, firm says
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) still has a way to go before it achieves its full business potential, a data quality firm has said.
Griffin Brown believes that the ten-year-old digital format, which firms can use as a foundation for their knowledge-based businesses, needs
to be developed so that problems with inaccurate data become less frequent.
Griffin director Alex Brown said that while XML's technical capabilities have expanded very quickly in the last decade, it now needs to move in a direction which will allow the movement of data
between systems to become quicker and more reliable.
Brown noted that system failures are more often caused by inaccurate data than by software bugs or poor programming, but nonetheless advocated the use of XML.
He said: "Business that rely on data access for engineers, field workers and mobile employees need to ensure that their data is stored in a universal format that is easily understood by a wide range
of devices."
"Choosing non-proprietary technology like XML is the future," he added.
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