Jan Hittle

Web services, designed primarily for companies to leverage their business services to a global market, also has value and benefits for companies at the enterprise level. Even if you choose to postpone your company's global Web services offerings, the integration and development benefits presented by Web services are worth investigating. This article explores how to use Web services concepts and technologies to integrate your applications and make resources available to the entire enterprise by discussing these questions: What are Web services? What value do Web services bring? What technologies are used for Web services? How can you use Web services at the enterprise level? How can you integrate different technologies with Web services? What current development issues exist with Web services? IBM has been a leader in the Web services field by helping to standardize... (more)