Web Services

 

Web services represent a significant new phase in the evolution of software development. As such they are attracting a great deal of media and industry hype. Vendors from all areas of the market are claiming leadership in the Web service arena -- most with little justification. As with so many new technologies, the immediate opportunities have been overstated, although the eventual impact may be huge.

The immediate and key role of Web services will be to provide paradigm shift in the way business manages IT infrastructure. They will overturn the accepted norms of integration and allow businesses to rapidly and effectively leverage the existing IT and information assets at their disposal. 

We at Web Prodigies developing methodologies to bring Web Service is integration both effective to optimal level and at the same time economical. We follow ESB model rater than traditional EAI approach for successful Web Services integration to bring in best solutions for specific, mission critical and high performance.  The present EAI approach is in dis-integrated state i.e. mixture of non-integrated and point-to point integrated systems that provides a very poor infrastructure for the agile connected business. Web services, first and foremost, provide a way to break-out of this value destroying cycle.

This first element of Web service integration, the essential prerequisite for further Web service projects, clears-up this internal mess to provide a flexible, scalable internal infrastructure that supports the needs of the business going forward.

Web Prodigies has used the Web service standards to create an integration platform capable of crossing internal boundaries between intra-enterprise applications and connecting middleware islands with m2m (middleware-to-middleware) integration. Web services define a transport method for processes defined in XML. They are not about providing a user interface to applications nor are they applications in their own right and they do not process data.

However, at the core of the Web service revolution is their ability to allow code to speak to code without human intervention. With this in mind organizations should see Web service integration as the next phase in the evolution of the tried and tested software bus model (ESB).

A more effective approach creates an end-to-anywhere approach that connects individual applications into a software bus that provides integration with any other application connected to it.

Using the Web service standards of UDDI, SOAP and WSDL, the Web service integration platform Web-enables internal application technologies. This does not mean that they need to be exposed on.

Web Prodigies strongly believes that as e-commerce solution expert especially for B2B sites, using web services we can surpass the normal business models thus encouraging transactions on web thus success of B2B sites. Thus we are in for second round of B2B revolution which is definite and better and easy to operate than the normal businesses.

Also, Web Prodigies believes that Web Service integration should start from Intra-enterprise transactions and information flow thus giving a successful beginning for web services integration. 

Thus, Web Prodigies with its experience in solution architectures and business analysis can revolutionize the businesses in optimum utilization of benefits of Web Services. Once the Web service integration architecture has been established internally, it is a simple matter to extend it beyond the firewall. With applications integrated using Web service standards, it is possible to offer collaboration with outside systems via the same architecture. Rather than building a point to point connection between your customer's systems and each of your systems that they need to see,

There are three clear steps in the adoption of Web service and their role at the heart of integration:

1. Overcoming internal barriers 
2. Extending systems to partners
3. Developing and exposing new composite applications for competitive advantage Almost every business should at least investigate the potential impact of Web service integration in the first category. It is very soon likely to become a 'stay-in-business' decision not a competitive advantage decision. Those companies that adopt this approach will not only gain advantage now from more streamlined systems, lower costs and better return on assets, but will develop valuable experience for the next step.

Web Prodigies will take you to the destination  successfully through these steps to give solutions that are more real time and with minimum human intervention.

 

 

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