Web Services Technologies and Trends
Key Findings:
- The Web Services market is segmented into three major segments:
- Web Services Platforms consisting of a Web Services Development Environment and Web Services Runtime Environment
- Web Service Application Development Suites
- Web Services Operations Management
- 75% of surveyed companies stated that their planned Web Service deployments will be internally-focused
- 64% of surveyed companies stated that Enterprise and Data Integration was the primary focus of their Web Service implementations
- 61% of surveyed companies plan a pilot test of Web Service-based applications within the next 12 months
- 58% of current Web Services pilots are being deployed on the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructure
Table of Contents:
- Executive Summary
- Scope of Report
- Web Services — Baseline Definitions
- Problems addressed by Web Services and ROI
- Current State of the Market of Web Services
- Market Sizing, Numbers, and Stats
- Pieces of the Puzzle: Standards and Specifications
- SOAP Implementations
- Portability and Interoperability Issues and Challenges
- UDDI Implementations
- Pieces of the Puzzle: Web Services Market Segmentation
- Web Services Platform: Development Environment and Runtime
- Web Service Transports
- Web Service Application Development and Delivery
- Web Services Operations Management
- Competitive Trends & Directions
- Missing Elements / Gaps
- Predictions
- What’s Real and What’s Not?
- End Notes and References
- Vendor Profiles