The goal of Allstate's AccessAllstate.com is to drive profitable growth for the company and meet customers' ongoing financial needs. The new system, which integrates several established systems, improves upon solutions that required the company's network of "producers" to call a service center to complete a transaction.
Things Remembered Inc. opted to explore Web services to gain important corporate goals. To improve their chances of success, they made sure to exploit long-running, in-house efforts that centered on the IBM MQ messaging middleware architecture.
When the e-business application that was at the heart of its success needed a major enhancement, Corporate Express created a new E-Way Web site that provides users with real-time pricing.
Without an effective way to authenticate clients, guarantee the integrity of transferred data and to ensure data remains confidential during transit, Web services can be applied only in limited ways.
Emergence of Web services fundamentally changes traditional testing methods. Testers finally lose "waterfall" security blanket.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization is working on interoperability among different SOAP-based applications for Web services.
What would a management framework look like if Web services assume more complex behaviors such as aggregating multiple synchronous or asynchronous interactions, or using discovery or involving third parties?
Once again, Application Development Trends honors some progressive IT organizations that took serious risks to build systems that could provide their company with long-term competitive advantage.
In an effort to streamline its expense reporting process, reduce turnaround times and save money, Weston Solutions Inc., an environment and redevelopment firm in West Chester, Pa., embarked on its first Web-based, enterprise-wide transactional application rollout.
Getting Web services to do more.
First look at a new testing product.
MS resigns from standards group.
Details on an effort to bring more developers into the fold.
Insufficient standards and increasing complexity are slowing efforts to tame the Web services monster; management tools are slow to emerge.
B2B company changes with the times.