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Overview
This report focuses on strategies for exploiting web services, from both the user and vendor perspectives.
Web services are of immense interest to enterprises and IT vendors alike, largely because they promise a new and cost-effective paradigm for business integration. This is one of the top CIO concerns at the moment. Many enterprises have already made limited deployment of web services behind the firewall to facilitate application integration. Microsoft sees web services as a cornerstone in the future development of IT infrastructure. Almost every significant IT vendor has web services in its plans, either because it fears being left behind or because it senses one of the few new opportunities in the present climate.
Web services management is becoming a growing requirement for the effective exploitation of web services. Some early adopters have reached the point where they need to manage their web services deployments and, for those that haven’t reached that point, there is a growing realisation that they will. The leading systems management vendors, such as CA, HP and IBM, and a slew of new entrants, such as Actional, AmberPoint, Blue Titan and Talking Blocks, have recognised the need and are striving to provide software solutions. In addition, service providers such as BT, Grand Central and Flamenco Networks provide hosted infrastructure services to enable customers to outsource web services elements together with other aspects of the deployment platform.
Despite the growing demand and the emergence of solutions, there is still no common definition of web services management requirements and standards initiatives such as Distributed Web Services Management, essential for effective management solutions, are only in the early stages. This report will clarify the requirements, allowing users to make informed decisions and vendors to understand what is required of and how to position their solutions.
Table of Contents
- Management summary
- Business drivers
- Web services management requirements
- Vendor positioning
- Vendor selection
- Case studies/best practice
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