Microsoft Corp. today announced at MEC 2002 the company's vision for the connected business, which included a groundbreaking project code-named "Jupiter." The project will integrate and componentize the award-winning Microsoft® e-business servers to help enterprises connect an IT ecosystem of information, people and business processes. The "Jupiter" set of technologies will be delivered in two phases over the next year to 18 months and will include revolutionary business process management and monitoring capabilities, additional support for XML Web services standards, including Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS), and richer developer and information worker support through enhanced integrations with Visual Studio® .NET and Office. Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, and David Kiker, general manager of E-Business Servers, outlined this evolutionary road map today in keynote presentations.
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