DATA INTEGRATION -- Tooling Up for CIM

A series of four private interoperability testing sessions leading up to a public session schedule for Drupa 2004 will benchmark the progress toward plug-and-play, Daisy points out. "We'll hopefully get to a point at Drupa and beyond where, if a management system can produce a JDF job ticket, then any other system able to consume (read) that job ticket should be able to act on the information. We are definitely still a ways away from that level of interoperability," he adds.