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WEB SERVICES: NOT JUST FOR THE FORTUNE 100
Analysts Present Web Services Strategies and ROI Study for Companies of Any Size.
Web Services levels the technology playing field, allowing any size company to deliver truly strategic advances in the way you operate your business, work with your partners and interact with your customers. Get beyond the hype and develop the game plan you need to deploy Web Services-based applications today, giving you a powerful competitive advantage, lowering the cost of doing business and increasing your bottom line. This report provides the blueprint you need to quickly move your company from today’s static technology into tomorrow's dynamic and strategically advantageous landscape. Real world-based evaluations and case studies give you the information you need to make the smart business decisions on deploying IBM's Websphere platform, Microsoft's .Net, Sun Microsystems' SunONE or other Web services platform.
Basex analysts have identified the following trends in this report:
IMPROVING THE BOTTOM LINE: Web Services provide a significant ROI to the corporate enterprise through by empowering applications to access complex legacy systems. By extending the life of these older systems, companies save the enormous costs of legacy system reengineering and replacement. This report discusses the key factors in maximizing Web Services ROI for companies of any size.
WHAT THE CIO NEEDS TO KNOW: Real ROI is being achieved by companies implementing Web Services today - both through savings on no-longer-needed legacy system reengineering and through new business possibilities, such as Dollar Rent-a-Car's use of Web Services to empower partners unprecedented direct access to resources previously only available internally. This new business opportunity greatly streamlines efficiency and provides new revenue streams. This report discusses how to apply these immediate-impact examples to your business.
AN EYE TO THE NEXT FEATURE SET: Web Services finally fulfills the promise made by middleware in the 1990s. It has come to fruition through the proliferation of a standard set of in infrastructure and communication standards. The next generation of Web Services capabilities will be empowered by the adoption of the additional standards. This report discusses how those standards affect your IT efforts.
This paper is a must-read for CIOs, CEOs, CFOs and any other executive involved in determining business needs that can be met through technology.
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