Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Is Security the #1 Obstacle? Commenting on my links last week to three eWeek articles on digital identity, Brent Sleeper writes, "If history with things like e-commerce is any indicator, it won't be as uniformly important as the conventional wisdom seems to indicate." Jon Udell addressed the same topic today.
My experiences are the same as Jon's. I, too, was convinced that PKI would take off in the late 90s. I had not just one, but two personal digital certificates. (Maybe that was part of the problem: I couldn't use my Netscape certificate with Microsoft software and vice versa.) As to web services, I think a much greater obstacle than sercurity is the lack of standards for business semantics. While the standards for web-services security have yet to be agreed to, we know how to solve the security problems. They're no longer rocket science. Companies like Grand Central Communications are already stepping up to provide reasonable ad-hoc solutions. But pulling together all the players in an industry and coming up with a common semantic model for real-world business processes, now that's a real challenge.
Posted Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:28:04 PM 
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Aggressive Adoption of Web Services. North American companies are adopting web services at a faster rate than anticipated, and companies that hold back on this cutting-edge technology risk being bypassed by more nimble competitors, according to a new research report from The FactPoint Group and Outsource Research Consulting. [Source: Brent Sleeper]
Separately, a survey conducted by Evans Data suggests 98% of IT managers plan to develop web services-enabled applications within next two years and 75% are already incorporating web services. [Source: WebServices.org via Julian Bond]
Posted Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:11:20 AM
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