VERTEX says businesses who exchange information electronically often use XML and the Internet, since it is less costly than building internal systems and data feeds to each of their external partners. The XML-based exchanges are subject to risk if the data changes in a manner not expected and, if left undetected, a change that is incorrect has the ability to negatively impact the business, reduce confidence between exchange partners, and increase technology costs, VERTEX says.
VTXcompare, built on Microsoft's .NET technology, is designed to mitigate risks that are inherent to changes in data by comparing the semantic equivalency of two or more XML documents, recording only the meaningful differences, and ignoring inconsequential differences such as XML order, system IDs, system keys or ignorable whitespace. The subscriber is able to define certain attributes that also should be ignored during the compare, VERTEX says.
The company says the comparison results are then presented to the subscriber in business English for a clear and concise description of what changed and can be printed and presented to a business partner. When the comparison finds no differences, a clear message is displayed indicating such, VERTEX adds.