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ALSO CALLED: Smart Services, Dynamic Services, Web Services (Software) DEFINITION: Web services (sometimes called application services) are services (usually including some combination of programming and data, but possibly including human resources as well) that are made available from a business's Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. Providers of Web services are generally known as application service providers. Web services range from such major services … Definition continues below.
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Thriving in the Ecosystem: How Web Application Interdependencies are Transforming the Business of IT sponsored by Webmetrics, a Neustar service WHITE PAPER: This white paper, based on unique, primary research, will provide you with a window into these new Web ecosystem dynamics - what they are, what are the trends, who is impacted most, and what strategies are most likely to help to minimize business risk and optimize growth opportunities. Posted: 25 Nov 2009 \| Published: 25 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Autonomic Computing \| Business Process Management \| Cloud Computing \| Grid Computing \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Service Management \| Utility Computing \| Web 2.0 \| Web Services \| Web Services Architecture

Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design in Five Steps sponsored by Progress Software WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the creation of an information "exchange" between applications or services in the context of the business process ticketing systems in an enterprise eBonding example. In this paper you will learn about application integration using the SID; Read on to learn a practical approach for project scoping and design in five steps. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Published: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Application Development and Integration Services \| Application Integration \| Application Monitoring \| Application Programming Interfaces \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Databases \| SOA \| Web Services

Empowering the Business to Sense and Respond: Delivering Business Event Processing with IBM WebSphere Business Events sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses one of the critical IBM technologies for supporting agility and alignment, Business Event Processing (BEP). Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Activity Monitoring \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| SOA \| Software Selection \| Web Services

Web Application for a Smarter Planet sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: As threats to Web applications continue to grow, IBM offers Web application security for a smarter planet—integrated, end-to-end security to build secure Web applications, run secure Web applications and protect SOA environments. Posted: 28 Oct 2009 \| Published: 28 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Security Threats \| SOA \| Web 2.0 \| Web Application Security \| Web Applications Management \| Web Services

Web Security SaaS: The Next Generation of Web Security sponsored by Webroot Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines Web security solutions that focus on increasing overall security effectiveness and reducing the burden on IT departments. It describes the challenges facing many SMB environments and identifies critical elements that make for lower-cost and easier-to-manage solutions. The paper highlights Webroot's SaaS security offering. Posted: 01 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Email Security \| Email Security Services \| Hackers \| SMBs \| Software as a Service \| Spyware \| Virus Protection \| Web Services \| Web Services Security \| Worms

Email and Web Security SaaS sponsored by Webroot Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about the many offerings of Webroot's Software as a Service (SaaS)-delivered e-mail and Web security suites, including anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-virus, and email archiving and encryption. Posted: 01 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Anti-Spam Software \| Anti-Spyware Software \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Email Encryption \| Email Security \| Email Security Services \| Email Security Software \| Software as a Service \| Virus Protection \| Web Services

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical White Paper sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a significant new release of the core application grid infrastructure foundation underpinning Oracle Fusion Middleware. It has been designed to provide a standards-based, mission-critical platform for organizations that deploy application grid and service-oriented architectures. Posted: 01 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| High Availability \| Middleware \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| Web Server Software \| Web Services

Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the testing challenges presented by Web services, and introduces best practices to ensure SOA application quality through the use of Oracle’s award-winning Web service testing solution, Oracle Application Testing Suite. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Service Level Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Testing \| Web Services \| Web Services Architecture \| Web Services Management

Whose Fault is it Anyway? Using Compuware Abend-AID to Diagnose DB2 and WebSphere MQ Problems sponsored by Compuware Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID. Posted: 04 Sep 2009 \| Published: 04 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Server Software \| DB2 \| Java \| Mainframe Computers \| Mainframe Operating Systems \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Software \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools \| Web Services \| WebSphere

9 Management Practices for Exceptional Webinars sponsored by Citrix Online WHITE PAPER: This new white paper examines Webinar effectiveness at driving lead generation and outlines 9 best practices for using Webinars in a cohesive lead-generation campaign. Posted: 21 Aug 2009 \| Published: 21 Aug 2009 TOPICS: B2B \| CRM \| Customer Service \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Lead Generation \| Marketing \| Web Conferences \| Web Services \| Webcasts

Delivering Quality Leads, Not Just Quantity: The Interactive Value of Webinars sponsored by Citrix Online WHITE PAPER: Using interactive media such as Webinars can help marketers effectively balance quality with quantity when it comes to lead generation. Download the white paper to learn more. Posted: 21 Aug 2009 \| Published: 21 Aug 2009 TOPICS: B2B \| CRM \| Customer Service \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Lead Generation \| Marketing \| Web Conferences \| Web Services \| Webcasts

Enabling Enterprise 2.0 sponsored by Websense, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn ways that organizations can create a strategy that embraces Web 2.0 technologies securely and enables a successful transition to Enterprise 2.0. Posted: 20 Aug 2009 \| Published: 20 Aug 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Collaboration \| Email \| Enterprise \| Remote Computing \| Security \| Web 2.0 \| Web Application Security \| Web Services

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Best of Breed Web Content Management (WCM) Different Technologies for Different Needs sponsored by SDL Tridion WHITE PAPER: This paper examines SDL Tridion's position within the overall content management landscape as defined by business needs, rather than underlying technology. It also explains how organizations can combine different content management technologies to solve various business requirements. Posted: 20 Jul 2009 \| Published: 20 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Content Management \| Content Management Systems \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Content Management Software \| Web Content Accessibility \| Web Content Management \| Web Services

Managing Global Web Sites: Localization, a Never Ending Story sponsored by SDL Tridion WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides examples about how organizations can use BluePrinting technology to achieve a smooth global Web operation and explains how organizations combine Content Management technology with translation technologies for even greater efficiency. Posted: 20 Jul 2009 \| Published: 20 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Globalization \| Localization \| Web Content Accessibility \| Web Content Management \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools \| Web Services \| Web Site Design \| Web Site Design Services \| Webmasters

Optimizing Managed Service Delivery With Secure Application Acceleration sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will examine the trends and challenges associated with web-based services and MSPs, and will identify the best way to optimize network and application performance and security. We will look at today's best practices and examine how Blue Coat Systems is addressing requirements with an integrated solution. Posted: 26 Jun 2009 \| Published: 26 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Security \| Managed Security Services Providers \| Network Management \| SMBs \| Web Services \| Web Services Management \| Web Services Security

Reinforce Business Objectives and Achieve ROI with Internet Identity Security sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how after deploying PingFederate or PingConnect your organization will yield a high return on investment and run more efficiently and will have distinct competitive advantage over companies that do not leverage Internet Identity Security Software. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 17 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| Identity Management \| Internet Security Software \| ROI \| Security \| Security Management \| SSO \| TCO \| Web Services

Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization sponsored by Wipro Technologies WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy. Posted: 12 Jun 2009 \| Published: 12 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Continuity Planning \| CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Competition \| Data Center Management \| Economic Environment \| IT Managers \| IT Services \| Regulatory Compliance \| Web Services

Identity-Enabled Web Services: Standards-based Identity for Web 2.0 - Today sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation WHITE PAPER: Web Services are emerging as the preeminent method for program-to-program communication across corporate networks as well as the Internet. Securing Web Services has been a challenge until recently. This White Paper discusses how Identity-Enabled Web Services works, and why it is important. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 05 Jun 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| ERP \| SAML \| Security Management \| Security Tokens \| SOA \| SOAP \| Web 2.0 \| Web Services \| WS-Security

Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage. Posted: 29 May 2009 \| Published: 29 May 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance Best Practices \| ITIL \| Lotus Notes \| Reporting Software \| Six Sigma \| SLA \| SOA \| TCO \| Web Services

SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, and more. Posted: 17 Apr 2009 \| Published: 17 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business IT Alignment \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Management \| Job Scheduling Software \| SOA \| Web Services \| Workflow Software

Practical Open Source Data Integration Case Studies & Implementation Examples sponsored by Talend WHITE PAPER: This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. Posted: 11 Feb 2009 \| Published: 11 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Data Integration \| Data Quality \| Databases \| Open Source \| Web Services

Bloor InDetail: Talend Open Studio - an independent analyst review sponsored by Talend WHITE PAPER: Talend is an open source provider of data integration products or, in traditional parlance, ETL (extract, transform and load), although the product also supports an ELT approach. Posted: 11 Feb 2009 \| Published: 11 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Data Integration \| Data Profiling \| Databases \| Java \| Metadata \| Software as a Service \| Web Services

Securing Loyalty: Insurance Carrier Strategies for Optimizing Agent Retention and Productivity sponsored by CSSI WHITE PAPER: Today, technology provides tremendous, previously untapped opportunities for a carrier to enhance the experience of channel members and ensures greater productivity. This paper describes the challenges carriers face in the area of loyalty and the ways technology enables carriers to address common agent frustrations in unprecedented ways. Posted: 15 Dec 2008 \| Published: 15 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Insurance Applications Software \| Insurance Industry \| Productivity \| ROI \| Web Services

How to Gain Visibility and Control of Encrypted SSL Web Sessions sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat's SSL proxy functionality enables organizations to extend the power of the intelligent and secure proxy appliances to all SSL traffic. Read about how a proxy gives visibility and control of SSL communications. Posted: 20 Sep 2007 \| Published: 20 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Databases \| Internet Filtering \| Internet Security \| Network Performance \| Proxy Server Software \| SSL \| SSL Accelerators \| Tunneling \| WAN \| WAN Hardware \| WAN Switching \| Web Services

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WEB SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): … as storage management and customer relationship management (CRM) down to much more limited services such as the furnishing of a stock quote and the checking of bids for an auction item. The accelerating creation and availability of these services is a major Web trend. Users can access some Web services through a peer-to-peer arrangement rather than by going to a central server. Some services can communicate with other services and this exchange of procedures and data is generally enabled by a class of software known as middleware. Services previously possible only with the older standardized …
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