Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Tony Scott, GM's CTO, continues to be a prolific proponent of web services, and this Computerworld interview reflects some of his latest thinking. The questions aren't the most intelligent, but the answers contain some important insights:
- "Today, we have to embed lots of business logic and rules in every single application that uses vehicle identification numbers." (GM has dozens if not hunderds of such apps.) GM is "creating a VIN web service that in effect will encapsulate all of the logic and business rules...so you don't have to support and maintain that in hundreds of applications."
- GM is "unlikely to rip out [a high-power EAI engine] and try to replace it with web services."
- Web services "force an architectural discipline into your environment that you may not have had."
- They have "a few internal" web services in production.
- "...we're several months to a year away before I'd feel comfortable..." offering external web services. The two issues are security and scalability.
The interview is worth reading for its perspective on what a large enterprise is really thinking and doing in the web-services space.
Posted Friday, February 14, 2003 6:30:40 AM 
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