Andrew Bibby

Promise:Web services will be revolutionary! Reality: What's a Web service for? What's the investment case? Problem: Most discussions of new solutions based on Web-services architectures focus on them from an IT-centric perspective Solution: An alternative view that helps to envision new solutions and prioritize investment in them starts with understanding business processes end-to-end from the perspective of user experiences. Specifically: Are users' choices usefully expanded? Is the aggregation of information automated sufficiently to save valuable time? Do integration savings get channeled into features, content enhancement, and design improvements that raise user adoption and retention? A Better Noise Filter Web services, XML, UDDI, SOAP, WSDL, .NET. Today it seems that anyone even thinking of investing in technology to solve a business problem is immediately overwhe... (more)