GARTNER GROUP - Web Services  

"Simple in nature and timely in their emergence, Web services will drive the next generation of software. Web services will serve as an attractive means through which enterprises can gain access to software and business services."
Gartner, Inc. June 11, 2001

"Businesses that ignore its potential, or decide to sit out its early stages will find themselves outpaced by rivals that take advantage of Web services to improve their agility and even to transform themselves into new kinds of enterprises."      
-David Smith, vice president and research director for Gartner.

Web services are software components that interact with one another dynamically and use standard Internet technologies, making it possible to integrate systems that otherwise would require extensive development efforts. Web services-based systems can advertise the presence of business processes, information or tasks that can be consumed by other systems.

Web services deliver the functionality generally demanded through software simply through dynamic integration. This functionality enables radical change, not only in the way software is delivered, but also in the expectations businesses will have of the software.

The dynamic adaptation of e-business processes and associated systems to support is changing business strategies and tactics.

A business advance made possible by the Internet + open standards The Internet + HTML standards revolutionized content publishing, making it easy to share information and documents created in different formats on different systems. Result: an explosion in Web content.

The Internet + e-mail standards eased communication across systems, around the world. Result: an explosion in e-mail. Now the Internet + Web services standards, used with a robust infrastructure, offers a similar advance for applications.

Mix-and-match, reusable applications will be used to create innovative business processes and value chains Innovative solutions that provide business a competitive edge can be developed without the traditional work required to integrate with existing systems and support current business processes

Anticipated Result - an explosion in reusable and embeddable business processes and in business transactions. Dynamic e-business is the evolution of e-business. It's the dynamic adaptation of e-business processes and associated systems to support changing business strategies and tactics. It simplifies integration through both connections and transactions.

Storage Manager Architecture Using IBM's Tivoli IBM Tivoli storage server manager managers hierarchical storage

• The Tivoli storage manager includes: • Administrative interface, Server database and recovery logs • Server storage • Backup client, allows user management • Applications program allows enhancements to existing applications • Server grouped into storage pools via local or storage area networks.

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