CIOs and IT managers are expressing a growing interest in what is happening in the Web services arena. ZDNet Australia takes a look at some tips and analysis.
Aust enterprises assess Web services
Web services are being touted as offering a wide range of benefits to organisations. But are Australian CIOs and IT managers in the implementation stage, or still assessing the options?
Web standard spat heads for showdown
An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month, when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details.
Smart planning reduces Web services security risks
IT executives spend a lot of time these days thinking about how to lower costs, improve security, and deliver IT as a business service. New development tools and infrastructure technologies that can help fulfill these goals are in high demand in spite of the current recession.
ROI for Web services: Risk factors
Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects.
Aust businesses eye Web services
Web services is predicted to become an important part of business planning, with a survey finding that 57 percent of Australian CIOs surveyed see a Web services approach as important to achieving short and medium term goals.
Smart software: Grunt work included
As application stacks grow more complex, feeding information to a proliferation of often incompatible client technologies, there's a new class of intelligent software emerging that could reduce dramatically the number of wheels that developers and systems administrators keep reinventing.
Making Web services practical
Though it was initially hailed as the Holy Grail of interoperable computing, most companies have pursued only limited adoption of Web services.
It's time to start Web services planning
By all indications, 2003 will be the "Year of the Web services," as major Internet sites start to expose data as Web services, software developers shore up Web services tools, and standards committees turn up the heat.
Putting Web services to work
How can you assemble the pieces of a Web services puzzle? Expert columnist Tim Landgrave offers his advice on the process and the pitfalls involved with integrating legacy data.
Web services: A new niche for acceleration tools
Web acceleration began as a method to speed online commerce sites. The idea was that if you could reduce the time to download a Web page, users would view more pages, have a more pleasant experience and, in theory, spend more money.
