Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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CIO Priorities: Reducing Costs Isn't #1. CIO Insight magazine recently surveyed nearly 400 CIOs, and while many questions are only of interest to the respondent group, others are of more general significance. With all the talk about tight budgets and pressure to reduce costs, I was intrigued to find that cost reduction was only the top priority for 6.0% of CIOs. Here's the complete list:
- Aligning IT with the business: 31.7%
- Making the enterprise more adaptive, flexible, and faster: 18.4%
- Developing strategies that leverage new technology: 13.6%
- Ensuring security and business continuity: 11.9%
- Ensuring projects are completed on time and on budget: 10.1%
- Reducing costs: 6.0%
- Helping to launch new products or lines of business: 5.2%
- Ensuring systems uptime: 1.8%
- Recruiting, retaining, developing staff: 0.3%
By a 3:1 ratio, CIOs consider "making the enterprise more adaptive, flexible, and faster" to be more important than cost savings. All the more reason to think of the business-agility benefits of web services as the primary objective, and that leads to loosely coupled services as the place to focus your attention.
Posted Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:51:11 PM  
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Making Web Services More Flexible. David Chappell and Tony Hong are trying to get programmers thinking about creating loosely coupled systems in this article in XML & Web Services Magazine. The pitch: SOAP over JMS.
Posted Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:35:22 AM
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