Imagine that you have restaurants in Miami, Helsinki and Philadelphia, but offices in Colorado. You've just finished email exchanges with your managers, but now need to make price changes, to view and compare restaurant performance data and post new info for your kitchen staffs. No matter where you are, if you have Internet access you have everything you need to do this and more - NOW! Because it's Internet-based, there's no long distance telco charges, no file management commands or user interaction necessary because it's all being done transparently via the Internet. Hall being done transparently via the Internet. How's THAT for world-wide universal connectivity?! There's only one company in the world that is shipping a proven, multiuser, high-resolution graphic server that can drive all of the graphic terminals in your restaurant while its being remotely accessed and managed by your office. Only one company in the world can directly support your remote POS system and won't charge you extra for it, and that's ViewTouch.

ViewTouch is implementing a bold, new way of using the internet and browser technology to make it far easier than ever before to view your company's remote site data and directly manage the infosystems in place at your company's remote locations. XML (Extensible Markup Language) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) make universal connectivity and remote management a reality today!

XML and EDI: Put simply, the goal of XML/EDI is to deliver unambiguous and durable business transactions via electronic means. Associated with this is a goal to establish a standard for commercial electronic data interchange that is open and accessible to all, and which delivers a broad spectrum of capabilities suitable to meet the full breadth of buuitable to meet the full breadth of business needs.

The XML EDI Taskforce.The combination of XML with EDI holds the promise of extending the advantages of Web-based EDI through an open standard to millions of enterprises. Until now, the only way EDI could be done on the World Wide Web was with the addition of complex, often expensive embedded programs that were proprietary.

With the addition of XML, EDI documents will not only be able to carry data about transactions between companies -- but they will also be able to carry routing, workflow, and processing information within themselves. XML/EDI documents will be self-describing, so that new document types can be sent and interpreted without the need to agred interpreted without the need to agree ahead of time on a standard document definition. And XML/EDI documents will even be able to include Java or JavaScript code (or links to server-side code) that will enable them to route and process themselves.

Here's a link to our internal XML process.

IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) is a rich protocol standard for facilitating communication between objects, as defined by the Object Management Group.

ViewTouch Networking is TCP-based. All network activity between the back-office host and the intranet displays and even communications with kitchen, bar and expediter printers is TCP-based. TCP networking and IIOers is TCP-based. TCP networking and IIOP make it possible to connect to databases located anywhere, inside or outside a particular organization.

According to Mark Andreesen of Netscape, "The next shift catalyzed by the Web will be the adoption of enterprise systems based on distributed objects and IIOP. In a full-service intranet different operating systems need to talk to each other, Java needs to talk to C++ code on the back-end system, and different applications need to communicate using open standards. We expect that over the next few years IIOP will become as ubiquitous as HTTP and CGI."