Tim Clark is a partner in The FactPoint Group (www.factpointgroup.com), a Silicon Valley research, consulting and publishing firm. He was the lead analyst on The FactPoint Group’s Web services research, which interviewed 50 enterprises and surveyed nearly 800 corporate users in collaboration with Outsource Research Consulting (ORC). More information on the research is available at http://www.factpointgroup.com/webservices/. For five years, Clark was a reporter and e-commerce columnist for CNET Network’s News.com and for Inter@ctive Week. He can be reached at tclark@factpointgroup.com. ORC is a full-service marketing research firm that can be reached at www.orconsulting.com.
Tools to create Web services and to put Web services "wrappers" around
existing software features are proliferating rapidly. But tools to help
enterprises keep track of these new components remain relatively rare.
Earlier this year Greg Clark, chief operating officer of E2open, described
such tools for managing Web services as the biggest missing aspect of Web
services. At the time he saw relatively few solutions. E2open, a venture
capital and industry-backed collaboration network for high-tech and
electronics manufacturers, is building its infrastructure on XML Web services
for easier integration with the many legacy systems its owners and clients
use.
Since then, both startups and established software tool vendors that provide
similar features for other software components are moving to offer these
"orchestration" capabilities for Web services. But the tools remai... (more)
With today's global and distributed commerce, organizations of all sizes are
having to collaborate and exchange information with a growing ecosystem of
divisions, partners and customers. Most companies want to communicate
electronically and in real time, but beyond email, managing the exchange of
data, messages and documents can be challenging and expensive.
Traditional EDI, networks or point-to-point integration systems are not
providing the interoperability, agility and real-time information exchange
businesses need to compete. In addition, companies need to do more than
merel... (more)
Tim Clark is a partner in The FactPoint Group (www.factpointgroup.com), a Silicon Valley research, consulting and publishing firm. He was the lead analyst on The FactPoint Group’s Web services research, which interviewed 50 enterprises and surveyed nearly 800 corporate users in collaboration with Outsource Research Consulting (ORC). More information on the research is available at http://www.factpointgroup.com/webservices/. For five years, Clark was a reporter and e-commerce columnist for CNET Network’s News.com and for Inter@ctive Week. He can be reached at tclark@factpointgroup.com. ORC is a full-service marketing research firm that can be reached at www.orconsulting.com.
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