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KnowNow.com - KnowNow's Internet publish-subscribe delivers secure, event-driven data through firewalls, over HTTP.: "Portals and email are not the panacea for corporate communications that they were promised to be. Email is plagued by spam. Neither solution addresses the need for real-time, event-driven communication between employees, partners and customers. Each puts a significant burden on users to manually filter vast amounts of information in order to determine what is relevant to them. Integration of portals with existing corporate systems is difficult and costly. Additionally, these solutions do not satisfy the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements regarding the timelines, accuracy and accountability surrounding financial transactions and reporting.
The solution is in the merging of lightweight event-driven integration solutions with Real Simple Syndication (RSS). "