For example, if your business infrastructure requires XML or JSON data formats, or an API to extract office data and transmit it to the field, then make sure you inquire with the mobile App vendor to see what they can offer.

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Oracle has a similar piece of middleware called Portal-to-Go that is XML-based and transforms data into various formats for mobile devices.

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The commercial version of Maltego lets users save these visualizations in popular data formats like XML so the information can be used by other programs.

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Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.

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Finally, Blue World Communications added XML support to Lasso 3.5 Web Data Engine, which builds database-driven Web applications.

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Workday's software makes prodigious use of the Web's extensible markup language, or xml, which facilitates sharing of documents or data among applications.

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We started relational, then objects, then text, then XML, now a lot of different types of unstructured data types all going into the Oracle database.

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