Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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The Blue Paper is a 24-page (PDF) Deloitte & Touche report on web services. I agree with Phil Wainewright that the listing of 42 private companies to watch is thorough, but my impression from the body of the report is that D&T have been sucked into the hype and don't really understand what's going on.
- They forecast the conventional-wisdom steady evolution of (1) behind the firewall, then (2) outside the firewall, followed by (3) application marketplaces. Yet in every one of their four examples of web-services early adopters (Dell Computer, Nordstrom, Chanel and Merrill Lynch), the companies are connecting to customers or suppliers. Listen to Hagel: Smart companies know the real benefit comes from external web services. D&T: You've at least got to use examples that support your own forecasts. Or get the forecast right.
- Someone--perhaps not the authors--wins the award for the worst analogies ever used to explain the web-services protocol stack: XML=Car, SOAP=Freeway, WSDL=License Plate, UDDI=Road Map. Huh?
- D&T miss the point of what they call Phase 3--Application Marketplaces, which they suggest will fail because companies won't share application code with one another. Doh! The whole point of web services is that you don't have to be running the same code, only supporting the same highly standardized interfaces. Just unclear on the concept.
[Sources: Phil Wainewright via Julian Bond]
Posted Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:02:22 PM 
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