Günther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

As web services technologies mature, and commercial-scale, service oriented architectures shift from early adoption to mainstream development, a new revolution of service orientation is emerging. Beyond the orchestration of web services in multi-party business processes, a dedicated treatment for procuring web services into different markets is coming into focus.

The first beneficiaries of open procurements of web services are ventures having successfully overcome the dotcom-burst such as Salesforce, StrikeIron, and GrandCentral. These companies leverage XML-based technology to consolidate enterprise application portfolios built by independent software developers for the small to medium markets. Their early successes are paving the way to long-anticipated Amazon/eBay-style marketplaces for web services.

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained mainstream acceptance as a strategy for consolidating and repurposing legacy applications to be combined with new applications in more dynamic environments, through self-contained, reusable, and configurable services. As fostered through the web services standards stack, services, once in place, can interoperate with other services, be composed into long-running business processes, spanning intra- and inter-organizational boundaries, and be procured through different business domains and market sectors. As web services are exposed and connected with one another, they give rise to service ecosystems.

Gunther Gerlach