
No
one involved in web based application development needs to be
reminded of the continued rapid changes in the industry. New
technologies and business models are continuously being brought
forward, innovation still reigns supreme. A new comer to distributed
component platforms is Web Services; other platforms include
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Common Object Request
Broker (CORBA) and Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
Web
Services as a framework has recently received considerable attention
since the possible uses and applications for Web services using
technologies such as SOAP, UDDI, WSDL and XML are virtually
limitless.
CALNET
consultants are helping customers build Web Services solutions
that maximize the reusability and flexibility offered by Web
services architectures, which reduce the cost and effort involved
in integrating packaged and legacy software. Web services provide
a low cost solution for enabling trading communities. Web services
help companies expose data in applications that significantly
increase the control of business operations and provide real-time
analytics. CALNET's expertise in Enterprise Application Integration
(EIA), business transaction models and secure frameworks truly
leverages the flexibility and scalability of Web Services solutions
for effective trading applications and B2B enablement.
Just
about any process can be exposed as a Web service and enabled
for real-time computing. System-to-system. No human intervention
required. That could make you more agile. That could help you
be more efficient and use existing resources more effectively.
You could make better decisions based on more accurate data
while you're saving time and money. That could transform the
way you do business.
"It's
safe to say that every software platform vendor out there, will
have to either provide support, or provide tools for, Web Services
at some point". CALNET supports development platforms from
vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle and BEA Systems
that make the creation of Web services and standards simple
to plug Web services into the Internet.