Corporate IT operations are quickly ramping up Web services projects to preserve existing investments in mainframes and other legacy systems by unlocking their data for use in new Web-based ...

Everywhere you turn someone is writing or talking about Web services and how they will revolutionize our lives. Companies that rarely agree about anything find themselves like-minded about the ...

The hype of Web services has subsided. However, anyone who has been around long enough to live through years of enterprise application implementations will discover that Web services and ...

WEB SERVICES’ PROMISE to eliminate the complexities of EAI (enterprise application integration) plays like a siren’s song to all levels of IT management. Worn down by mounting costs for EAI-related ...

Service-oriented architectures hold out the promise of reinventing IT as we know it, according to proponents of Web services. With Web services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) ...

WEB SERVICES HOLD the potential to change many things about software, not the least of which is how it is developed. Despite vendors’ claims that Web services are more evolutionary than revolutionary, ...

Runner-up Northern Trust built a service-oriented architecture that promises big efficiency gains. With $2.3 trillion in assets under its management in 97 financial markets, multi-bank holding company ...

The reality: Web services hold much promise, and if you're not already on board, you will be eventually. But security fears are valid and must be addressed from the get-go. Competing standards ...