"Web services gives you a leverage point" to start bridging organisations, says Bond. Traditional paper-based contracts include descriptions of service levels and other ways such as delivery dates ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

The first flush of Web services is upon the IT world, and integration has proved the first and foremost target. Customers are looking to Web services as a means to help them finally integrate their ...

For a couple of years now, we've been barraged with messages from the press, analysts, vendors, and others about possible useful applications of Web services. Almost all of these messages envision Web ...

Technology has enabled businesses to do something they couldn’t have done before – have real-time, up-to-the-minute access to information about inventory, pricing, purchasing and order status. Web ...

Web services, first hatched by vendor-led standards bodies in 2000, were first touted as integration points for business-to-business e-commerce communications across firewalls. However, IT executives ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

In an attempt to seed the market for Web services, webMethods Inc. on Thursday served up a free, 60-day evaluation version of its application integration platform. Officials at the Fairfax, Va.-based ...

No one can dispute that the Web has fundamentally altered the way we shop, do business and are entertained. But underneath it all, the Web remains what it has always been-an enormous collection of ...

Here is one way to look at distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain in the context of integration evolution. Over the years, businesses and their systems are getting more integrated, ...

The last 15 years have been a stage of continuous development for portals. Following developments in web technology, from mere content display platforms with minimal personalization capabilities, ...