backbones, 199–200
bandwidth, 169
banking industry, 132–134
Bcentral, 176
BEA, 31–32, 41, 44, 52, 54–55, 148, 176, 182, 186, 191–192, 194–195, 201
Beacon Hill Group, 155
benefits of Web services adoption, 83–85
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), 34
Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG) principle, 77
Bill Of Materials (BOM) management, 131
billing, 51
binding Web services, 104, 166
BizTalk server, 177
BlueTitan, 195
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BBN), 34
BorderManager, 198
Bowstreet, 193, 195
Brown, John Seely, 142–144
browsers (see Web browsers)
Built to Last, 76–77
business landscape and adoption, 60–66
business models, 88–94, 115–116, 205
Business Process Collaboration (BPC) (see collaboration), 15
business process execution, 48–50, 69
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), 31, 49–50, 67, 69, 73, 83, 194, 200
Business Process Management (BPM), 31, 49
Business Process Management Initiative organization (BPMI.org), 31
Business Process Markup Language (BPML), 49
Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), 31
Business to Business (B2B) integration, 10–15, 70, 126
business value chain, 95–97
business value from Web services, 13–17