"Web services gives you a leverage point" to start bridging organisations, says Bond. Traditional paper-based contracts include descriptions of service levels and other ways such as delivery dates ...

For a couple of years now, we've been barraged with messages from the press, analysts, vendors, and others about possible useful applications of Web services. Almost all of these messages envision Web ...

Technology has enabled businesses to do something they couldn’t have done before – have real-time, up-to-the-minute access to information about inventory, pricing, purchasing and order status. Web ...

In an attempt to seed the market for Web services, webMethods Inc. on Thursday served up a free, 60-day evaluation version of its application integration platform. Officials at the Fairfax, Va.-based ...

No one can dispute that the Web has fundamentally altered the way we shop, do business and are entertained. But underneath it all, the Web remains what it has always been-an enormous collection of ...

The last 15 years have been a stage of continuous development for portals. Following developments in web technology, from mere content display platforms with minimal personalization capabilities, ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

Here is one way to look at distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain in the context of integration evolution. Over the years, businesses and their systems are getting more integrated, ...