Open Standards

Open Standards and San Diego Media
MaxEXP®, San Diego Media's eBusiness platform, is built utilizing an open standards modular based technology. Open standards technology provides the optimal foundation for an eBusiness platform promoting security, flexibility and scalability.

What are open standards?
In simple terms, open standards are publicly available specifications that provide a common method of achieving a particular goal. By allowing anyone to use these standards compatibility between various hardware and software components can be achieved. HTML is a commonly known example of an open standard. Its creation spurred the birth of the World Wide Web.

What do open standards mean for your business?
Flexibility, cross-platform integration, and vendor independence.
During the next ten years, business agility will continue to be a critical differentiator for businesses, and those that can shift their strategies quickly in response to the market will prosper. For a business to excel, companies need a scalable, robust solution to their eBusiness platform that embraces this philosophy. Software and application integration made possible by open standards is key to achieving this goal. Adopting the open standards approach to eCommerce ensures the flexibility that is necessary for success in today's web industry.

Benefits of Open Standards

1. Flexibility to modify. Open standards technology offers flexibility and scalability. With open standards, applications can be customized and expanded upon to accommodate for a company's specific needs or requirements.
2. Cost effectiveness. Open standards make integration simple and vendor independent. Utilizing open standards removes many of the barriers of merging existing technologies or systems resulting in more cost effective integration solutions and services.
3. Web Services readiness. Web Services is a new paradigm and probably one of the most discussed subjects amongst the IT solution providers. It is a simple concept that enables grand integration of various blocks of existing web infrastructure. To realize the benefits of Web Services, an eBusiness platform must adopt open standards. Read more about Web Services.