The Business Case

As with any new technology, the goal is to quickly identify the business opportunities. Web services have a variety of opportunities, both internal and external to business operations. Internally, Web services serves as an ideal integration technology that can expedite the coupling of applications and systems together. By bearing the upfront cost of converting existing application services to Web services, cost savings can be reaped in future combinations, deployments, and integration projects, as well as external monetization of such services. If delivering applications and/or e-services is core to your business model, it will become strategic to maneuver quickly and offer specialized applications to fickle customers and their ...

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