Having survived Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) projects, enterprises are looking for fresh ways to accelerate business and to increase efficiency and agility. Web services, a set of technologies that automate business processes,promise the speed and agility that enterprises seek to create a competitive edge.
Unlike previous technological innovations that required re-engineering work or hands-on intervention from end users in order to effect changes, Web services are layered onto existing applications and are themselves self-adapting, capable of discovering and querying one another automatically, and able to connect, compare, assess, re-configure, and transact as quickly as business needs demand. The result is an unprecedented degree of automation, efficiency, and agility.
Constellations of business connections and trading networks can appear overnight as Web services automatically pursue opportunities that even the most diligent human workers, peering into their Web browsers, would have been sure to overlook.
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