The Essential Guide to Web Services

How are Web services being used Now?

Companies testing the Web services waters generally tackle internalsoftware integration projects first, chiefly because in-house projectsare less risky and easier to test-drive. "People will integrateapplications, processes, business flow, even content," says Gary Hein,senior analyst at The Burton Group, a Midvale, Utah-based consultancy.At Texas A&M, for example, the IS department wrote Web services thatauthenticate users' identification; it is also working on Web servicesthat would pull information from several legacy applications andpresent it over a webpage so that students can check their schedulesand their tuition accounts online.