federation

Four major unions are boycotting the AFL-CIO's constitutional convention beginning in Chicago today. They are expected to leave the labor federation, and are supposed to announce their plans today.

America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced that it has launched the AOL Enterprise Federation Partner (EFP) program to help communities of at-work instant messaging users connect and communicate in real time.

When we understand that the key principle of On Demand is 'straight through processing', where business processes can execute in their entirety across multiple systems in multiple companies instanteously, in 'real-time', we can clearly see that the keystone to On Demand is Identity Federation. It provides the platform to achieve this through engendering a singular semantic architecture that can be used to consistently describe and therefore integrate workflow.