Chapter 5. What Do Web Services Enable My Organization to Do?

In This Chapter

Key Insights

Web Services in Action: Generic Examples

How Web Services Can Help a Business Open New Markets

How Web Services Can Be Used to Dynamically Increase a Company's Application Portfolio

How Web Services Can Be Used to Reduce Development Time and Costs

How Web Services Can Help Create New Organizational Efficiencies

How Web Services Can Help an Enterprise Create/Overcome Competitive Pressure

How Web Services Can Help Create a New Revenue Stream from Existing Intellectual Property

How Web Services Can Help ISVs Repackage Their Software Offerings to Better Reach/Serve Existing Markets

Repacking Affects Physical Product Packaging, Marketing/Promotion, Business Partnership Strategies, and Sales-Channel Approaches

How Web Services Can Help Solve Legacy Systems Incompatibility Problems

Another Example of How Web Services Can Help Resolve Interoperability Issues

How Web Services Improve Individual Productivity

Chapter Summary