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the web services paradigm is poised to become the dominant form of distributed computing this decade and beyond. indeed, a. t. kearney, an eds global consultancy, found that 75% of companies ranging from less than $50 million to more than $1 billion in revenues and across 20 vertical industries have already deployed one or more web service.
the benefits of web services
reducing costs of an integration project as dramatically as 80% have gotten web services a lot of attention. merrill lynch, dupont, general motors, wachovia, nasdaq, continental airlines, dollar rent-a-car, jp morgan chase, and zagat, to name a few, have used web services for their recent application integration projects to drastically reduce their costs. in particular, merrill lynch was able to complete a project originally slated to cost $800,000 for $30,000; that gets a cios attention. at motorola, in one project involving the reuse of an existing credit-card validation function by "wrapping" it as a web service, the company was able to save over $100,000 in software development costs. the large cost benefit of web services follows from how simply and rapidly they can be developed. in the past, enterprise integration required specialized ? and sometimes downright esoteric ? expertise. the programming skills necessary to use web services for application integration are within the reach of the broad cadre of enterprise developers.agility ? new revenue 【程序编程相关:Taglibs: Designing W】
enterprise integration is consistently one of the top three priorities of it organizations and accounts for $50b in spending annually. web services are becoming the technology of choice for solving pressing point-to-point integration needs because of the inherent benefits of the approach. foremost among these benefits are cost reductions, business agility, and component reuse.cost reductions 【推荐阅读:Tales from the List 】
ciscos john chambers has said "the greatest contributions to corporate productivity, and consequently revenue, are likely to come out of dynamic changes to business processes." business processes are hard to change when they are codified into inflexible monolithic applications. the component-based web services model offers the promise of business agility by enabling the rapid and dynamic configuration of information assets for the maximization of revenue.the advantage of business agility is apparent in the case of mci, which was able to transform its business several years ago with its mci "friends and family" plan. the ability for mci to use the lists of a particular customers friends and family to provide pricing incen... 下一页