A second chance for outsourcing
The emergence of Web services looks to be a life preserver for the foundering hosted application services business model THE COMING TIDE of Web services carries with it a second chance for ASPs and systems integrators to trim their sails,…
Secure Web services start with XML
A host of new standards will bolster authentication, authorization, encryption, and key management. Kerberos Kerberos is an authentication technology that uses cryptographic tokens to identify users and can be used to authenticate Web service users. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)…
Second standards phase emerges
After XML and SOAP, the next Web services standards wave will focus on security, reliability WITH THE CAVALCADE of companies behind Web services having more or less come to an agreement, the industry’s first foray into Web services standards is…
Tying the application knot
Web services support will be mandatory for enterprise applications vendors WEB SERVICES PROMISE to deliver an open, Web-based architecture to connect business processes, which could potentially turn upside down the way we think of, create, and use software. It’s reasonable…
Web services pioneer
Tybio’s CTO sees many IT roles likely to change with the advent of new services AS A CTO for the consulting company Tybio, Joe Aloia has spent much of the last year helping deploy Web services technologies for the company’s…
Making the connection
Platforms, tools, applications, and vendor strategies are coming together to fulfill the promise of Web services NATURALLY, any technology with the disruptive potential of Web services will have both champions and detractors. Whereas the evangelists tout Web services as the…
Web services offer a glimpse of the future
Down the road, look for services to change the way the entire computing infrastructure functions BEYOND PROVIDING A lower-cost infrastructure for application integration, the advent of Web services lays the foundation for a slew of changes in enterprise computing that…
Catch the services bus
Iona’s XMLBus 5.0 is the first stop for business-process modeling in Web services integration IN THE RACE to Web services integration, key differentiators will come not from underlying protocols and technologies but from the ease and speed with which companies…
Cash in on components
Application Composer 2.0 allows developers to rapidly construct applications and Web services WEB SERVICES MAY represent the future of enterprise computing, but nothing is new when it comes to developing those applications: Success or failure still hinges on having the…
Check, please
Although they’re taking different routes, companies want to get us to the same place: Web services on demand WEB SERVICES ARE here. As I write this, Microsoft is streaming a security update to my laptop. I didn’t request it, although…
