"Web services gives you a leverage point" to start bridging organisations, says Bond. Traditional paper-based contracts include descriptions of service levels and other ways such as delivery dates ...

The first flush of Web services is upon the IT world, and integration has proved the first and foremost target. Customers are looking to Web services as a means to help them finally integrate their ...

For a couple of years now, we've been barraged with messages from the press, analysts, vendors, and others about possible useful applications of Web services. Almost all of these messages envision Web ...

Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

Web services, first hatched by vendor-led standards bodies in 2000, were first touted as integration points for business-to-business e-commerce communications across firewalls. However, IT executives ...

Web services have been hyped as the "new" new thing -- the future of business and personal living. John Rommel shows how the certainty of change, driven by the business necessity to deliver faster, ...

Technology has enabled businesses to do something they couldn’t have done before – have real-time, up-to-the-minute access to information about inventory, pricing, purchasing and order status. Web ...

In an attempt to seed the market for Web services, webMethods Inc. on Thursday served up a free, 60-day evaluation version of its application integration platform. Officials at the Fairfax, Va.-based ...

The last 15 years have been a stage of continuous development for portals. Following developments in web technology, from mere content display platforms with minimal personalization capabilities, ...