| Title: |
Experiences in Adopting Web Services |
| Author: |
David Sprott |
| Publication Date: |
12 November 2002 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
BT recently made a strategic announcement on their Web Services solutions strategy. We reported on this from the perspective of how Web Services will progressively enable a radical change in their business model. At the time of the announcement BT indicated that the new strategy was based on extensive experience with Web Services and we asked them to expand on this. This report provides some interesting insights on how a major company has already gained considerable benefit from the Service approach and some lessons learnt.
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| Backgrounder: |
Over the last decade BT like many enterprises, has pursued a strategy of standardization in the middleware layer as a means of addressing reuse, quality and cost issues. In the early days they developed their own pseudo real-time RPC capability and implemented a DCE/OSI based architecture. It was about two years ago when they took the decision to standardize on XML for all asynchronous messaging and they feel they were well placed to adopt SOAP which is conceptually similar to DCE but open.
Recently BT announced a strategic initiative to enter into the Web Services arena. Interestingly BT's Web Services approach is much broader than the footprint of their conventional business model. In the future they plan to offer an end to end solution service including a Web Services application component library, a deployment environment and a Web Services management layer based on Flamenco Networks products. This broadly based announcement suggests BT has recognized their core competencies of managing networks and systems integration provide a basis for value added services. In the announcement they made it clear that this is a long term strategy and that this is soundly based on their own experience. In this report we focus on current activity and experience. We will report on the evolving BT business model in a future report as the details become clearer.
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| Report Size: |
3 Pages |
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