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Enterprise Resource Planning and web services: The Third Wave
Every major technology goes through a series of revolutions or "Waves" with each wave building upon the generation before it, and ERP is no exception. The first wave of ERP was the onset of computers in manufacturing. This was followed by a wave where specialized ERP applications began to emerge....
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, ERP, Web service, manufacturing, Web, computer
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BPM: Where Do web services Fit In?
Business Process Management (BPM) software integrates applications, like a CRM system, with a critical business process, streamlining information flow and boosting processing power. When combined with Web services - one of the IT industry' hottest areas - the software capitalizes on online technology's ability to distribute application resources and customer...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, business process, CRM system, Web service, CRM, Web, benefit, software
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Integrating Inter- and Extra-Enterprise Applications Using web services
The fast-paced advancement of information technology is rapidly changing the business world. Fulfilling on-demand service requests is vital to today's business survival. Enterprises must incessantly upgrade and integrate their e-infrastructures in order to maintain their competitive advantage. One major roadblock to integration is that there is usually an inherent heterogeneity...
Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, legacy system, competitive advantage, knowledge, information technology, software
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Cosmorion: Developer Uses web services to Extend Blogging to Mobile Phones
Based in Istanbul, Turkey, Cosmorion is an international developer group that focuses on developing solutions and services on emerging mobile standards using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Web services. Cosmorion was looking for a rich, scalable development environment for creating innovative applications for both Internet and mobile telecommunications networks. Cosmorion...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, .NET, Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Corp., mobile blogging, Microsoft .NET Framework, mobile, development environment, cell phone, blogging, Web service, phone, environment, PC, network, Internet, Web
Case studies
Allstate Insurance Co.: Allstate Uses web services to Quickly Create Insurance Policy Management Solution
Based in Northbrook, Illinois, Allstate Corporation is one of the nation's largest insurers. In 2003, the company recorded roughly U.S. $32.1 billion in revenue. Allstate wanted to give customers access to life and annuity policies through its customer-facing Web portal. Such functionality already was available through another Web portal restricted...
Tags: Portals, Web technology, Microsoft Corp., Allstate Corp., Web portal, annuity, portal, financial, Web service, Web, security
Case studies
Farmers Insurance: Insurance Company Streamlines Claims Processing With web services-based Solution
The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is the third largest home and auto insurer in the United States. Farmers wanted to streamline its claims management process to eliminate inefficiencies. It wanted to monitor repair shop performance, make better use of claims staff, and quickly add new functionality to key systems....
Tags: Performance management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET Framework, performance, insurance, Web service, monitor, Web
Case studies
Top web services of 2007
Yesterday I listed my top software picks for 2007. Now let's turn our attention to the Web, where some truly stellar services appeared and/or evolved this year. Seriously, how did we ever call ourselves productive before the Web came along? Google Everything  I can't pick a single...
Tags: Instant messaging, Web browsers, Channel management, Word processors, Rick Broida, Now Let, Google Inc., Yapta, Zoho Writer, Zoho, SplendidCRM, IM, Meebo, Web
Blog posts 2007-12-20
Contract Negotiation, A Tale Of Five Themes
Contract negotiation is an area of increasing interest to grid and web service developers. However, the implementation of systems capable of both creating and negotiating them requires considerable attention to dependability issue. In this paper the PhD projects design and implementation are laid out, prior to an examination of the...
Tags: Lancaster University, Web service, Web
White papers 2006-05-19
web services: Practice and Promise
Web services will help knowledge management initiatives by allowing easier integration of business processes and content, but the customer-facing applications that have received so much hype will take some time to be materialized. Right now, companies are focusing on using the technology in-house, to learn how it works and where...
Tags: Strategy, Web services, Information Today Inc., knowledge management, Web service, integration, knowledge, content management, business intelligence, barrier, business process, Web, benefit
White papers 2006-03-01
The Move to web service Ecosystems
This thoughtful paper considers the evolution of Web Service Ecosystems and how such environments will support Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). It presents a vision for the next generation of Service-Oriented Systems, which is termed as Web Service Ecosystems. The paper reviews early manifestations of these systems and identifies challenges...
Tags: Web services, Channel management, Operational planning, Strategy, Web service, vision, BPM, Web, business process, environment
White papers 2005-11-01
Specification Of Policies For Automatic Negotiations Of web services
Market mechanisms provide an efficient institution for allocating service offers and requests. In doing so, negotiations between the market participants play a crucial role. However, current policy languages are ill-suited to realize beneficial trade-offs within a negotiation, since they support only boolean decisions. Therefore, we suggest an approach where preferences...
Tags: Free trade, negotiation, Web service, Web
White papers 2005-09-30
Leveraging web services in the Insurance Industry
Today, insurers face tremendous challenges due to changing customer demographics, including product commoditization, globalization, increased competition, technology, distribution channels and regulatory changes. In addition, rising cost pressures are forcing insurers to review their fully integrated business model. The paper highlights that web services and standards provide an important means for...
Tags: BearingPoint Inc., insurance company, insurance, Web service, globalization, Web
White papers 2005-08-09
Gain Competitive Advantage With Enterprise Services Architecture
Companies are increasingly recognizing the value of the Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint, a service-oriented architecture that finally bridges the gap between business needs and IT delivery. By defining all functionality in terms of independent Web services with enterprise-level business value, Enterprise Services Architecture elevates the concept of Web services design,...
Tags: Web services, Channel management, Strategy, SAP AG, Web service, competitive advantage, SOA, Web, information technology
White papers 2005-03-11
E-Supply Chain Orchestration Using web service Technologies
The world nowadays is witnessing a growing interest in conducting supply chain business processes electronically. Different supporting technologies are emerging, and many are already available on the market. The adoption of these technologies is hampered by the fact that organizations demand that their data and inner business processes remain hidden....
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Operational planning, Web services, supply chain, business process, e-Supply Chain, BPEL, Web service, SOA, Web
White papers 2004-12-03
TrustServ: Model-Driven Lifecycle Management of Trust Negotiation Policies
A scalable approach to trust negotiation is required in Web service environments that have large and dynamic requester populations. We introduce Trust-Serv, a model-driven trust negotiation framework for Web services. The framework employs a model for trust negotiation that is based on state machines, extended with security abstractions. Our policy...
Tags: Free trade, University of New South Wales, negotiation, Web service, lifecycle management, Web, environment, performance, strategy, security
White papers 2004-05-17
Financial Services Technology Journal - Enabling the Holistic Enterprise With web services and Service-Oriented Architecture
Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (WS/SOA) enables organizational units and business partners to expose and integrate application functionality and data. This article explores the primary factors in determining the applicability of WS/SOA to an organization. It defines key services - security, business orchestration, event management, service location, integration - discussed...
Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, BearingPoint Inc., SOA, Web service, Web, financial, security
White papers 2004-05-15
Construction Supply Chain Visualization Through web services Integration
This paper presents SCVisualizer, a real-time information visualization tool for construction supply chain management. SCVisualizer leverages Web Services and computer agent?s technology for building a virtual construction supply chain. Having real-time information available at any time can increase information transparency, which in turn, makes it easier for project managers to...
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Stanford University, information retrieval, supply chain, Web service, Web, tool, computer
White papers 2004-05-01
Fresco: A web services Based Framework for Configuring Extensible SLA Management Systems
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a service contract that includes the evaluation criteria for agreed service quality standards. Since agreeable specifications on the evaluation criteria cannot be limited in practice, competitive SLA management products must be extensible in terms of their support for contract-specific SLA compliance evaluations. While the...
Tags: Service level management, IBM Corp., SLA, Web service, software product, Web, software
White papers 2004-04-25
The Business of Technology- Enabling the Holistic Enterprise With web services and Service-Oriented Architecture
As businesses increase collaboration across organizational units and outward to partners, they need simpler models to enable greater sharing and interaction. Web Services combined with a Service-Oriented Architecture (WS/SOA) is one such model that directly enables organizational units and business partners to expose and integrate application functionality and data. Specific...
Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Operational planning, Groupware, Enterprise software, BearingPoint Inc., organizational unit, SOA, messaging, Web service, BPM, business process, collaboration, programming, Web, database
White papers 2004-03-25
Love Affair With web services Waning?
For the business people that control IT investments and spending, Web services terminology is yet another foreign language they don't care to master - to them Web services don't matter. They do indeed understand business processes, more than many IT people care to admit, so perhaps it's time for IT...
Tags: Web services, Strategy, Channel management, Business Process Management Initiative, Web service, information technology, IT investment, operating system, Web, business process
White papers 2003-11-01
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