Index_P

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Paras, George, 163–164

partnerships, 90–92, 95, 155

Passport, 177

peer networks, 155

PeopleSoft, 10–11, 173, 185–186, 201

performance load, 51

personal computer development, 10–11, 160

pharmaceutical industry and, 129–130

pilot project, 68, 151–154

application inventory for, 151–153

guiding principles for, 151–152

risk management and, 153–154

Sweet Spot in, 153, 154

platform vendors, 183–185

Point-Of-Sale (POS) systems, manufacturing industries and, 130

point-to-point interfaces, 15

Porras, Jerry I., 76–77

portals, 4–5, 99

preparation for successful Web services, 145–151

awareness of management in, 147–149

questions to ask, 145–147

skills acquisition, 147

standardization of data definitions in, 149–150

training programs for, 147–149

XML enabling in, 150–151

principles of Web services, 27

process orchestration and workflow in, 82–83

procurement processes, 99–109

application, 105–106

collaboration and, 71

Web services and, 115

product breadth, for vendors, 184

product development, 96

collaboration and, 71

Engineering Change Notifications (ECN) in, 125

manufacturing industries and, 125

time to market, 141–142

product/service complexity vs. Web services, 119

productivity, 10, 115–116

profiles, 56–57, 154

programmatic access, 27

Progress Software, 185

Proof-Of-Concept (POC) phase, 60

proprietary standards, 31, 152

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), 53

public trade exchanges and, 137

publishing of services (see also universal description, discovery, integration), 104, 166, 170