pureXML News

Thunderhead announces new software offering that embeds DB2 pureXML. The NOW Context Engine will form the core of Thunderhead's new analytic capabilities.

TPoX 1.2 released on June 13th, 2008 - an updated version of the benchmark "Transaction Processing over XML" has been released. Please see the new features.

Using HR-XML in a pureXML Database Webinar on 21 May 2008. Please see http://www.hr-xml.org/blog/?p=242 for more information.

New XML performance benchmark: Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) - an application-level XML database benchmark based on a financial application scenario. It can be used to evaluate the performance of XML database systems, focusing on XQuery, SQL/XML, XML storage, XML indexing, XML Schema support, logging, concurrency and other database aspects. So far, TPoX has been used by IBM and by Intel to evaluate performance & scalability of both software and hardware.

W3C Announces XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 standards - Tools to Query, Transform, and Access XML and Relational Data. Newest Open Web Standards Already Widely Supported in Industry.
"As key additions in the XML family, these standards allow businesses to flexibly access, query, manipulate and present their data for heterogeneous customers and partners. IBM has several market leading products that offer support for these important standards, in particular IBM DB2 Version 9.1 with support for XQuery, and we anticipate real benefits to our customers."
- Karla Norsworthy, VP Software Standards, IBM

Industry (quick start) bundles for pureXML are downloads that contain sample messages for the financial industry together with scripts that insert and query the documents, to help DBAs and Developers get started with DB2 pureXML in an industry specific context. You can get the downloads on the alphaWorks Website from the "Download now" link.

Industry Formats and Services with pureXML is a demonstration of end-to-end XML data exchange with a DB2 9 pureXML database, retrieval through RESTful generic Web services, and user interaction provided through Atom feeds and XForms-capable browsers. A variety of industry formats are used in the demonstration such as FIXML, FpML, MISMO or HL7. You can try the demonstration on the alphaWorks Website from the "View demo" link.

Selected Success Stories

China:

China Huadian - China Huadian Corporation chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML to integrate and analyze corporate property information.

Beijing XiCheng District Health Bureau - Beijing XiCheng District Health Bureau chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML to provide EMR healthcare information exchange.

Germany:

Douglas Holding AG - DOUGLAS HOLDING AG accelerates sales reporting by storing pureXML data eight times faster in its IBM DB2 9 data server.

German Research Center for Competitive Sports - Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum fur Leistungssport

India:

EnterpriseFlow - EnterpriseFlow chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML for BPM/ERP application suite.

Japan:

Software Research Associates Tohoku - Software Research Associates Tohoku chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML for Univision+EV system, implemented at University of Miyazaki.

Korea:

Catholic Medical Center - Catholic Medical Center chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML over legacy DBMS to support its integrated healthcare platform.

Luxembourg:

Banque Raiffeisen -Banque Raiffeisen selects Temenos and DB2 9 pureXML for banking application

Norway:

StoreBrand - StoreBrand improves agility by integrating business processes with IBM solution Storebrand Video profile

United States:

finEye - finEye chooses IBM DB2 9 with pureXML for financial analytic decision system.

New York State Tax Department- New York State tax agency uses pureXML to process millions of tax filings

UK:

ScotDB Limited uses DB2 pureXML to help florists get flowers to that special someone right on time....