The hot AJAX development approach isn’t just for pretty, consumer-oriented Web sites such as Google Earth and Netflix.com. Business process management (BPM) vendors Pegasystems and Appian use AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in their latest releases to deliver interfaces that are not only rich, dynamic and user-friendly, but much more process-relevant and personalized.

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