Leveraging Web Services: Planning, Building, and Integration for Maximum Impact (Hardcover)

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Product Description
Web services are a group of closely related, emerging technologies based on an open, Internet-centric infrastructure. They are the driving force that makes corporate portals work, and the best, most economic way of making content and services available to everyone within a corporation, as well as all of its suppliers and customers. And web services is the only area of IT seeing any increase in spending over the foreseeable future.

Leveraging Web Services helps CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and senior managers understand how web services can be applied to their own organizations. The book uses case studies and interviews to take readers inside top real-world enterprises that have conceptualized, developed, and implemented this new technology. From stock quotes, content syndication and mapping services, to payroll management, business intelligence, shipping and logistics and other applications, making the most of web services can open up huge possibilities. Featuring examples from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon.com, Leveraging Web Services offers a compelling examination of how the technology can be used for superior results.

Book Description

"Web services are a group of closely related, emerging technologies based on an open, Internet-centric infrastructure. They are the driving force that makes corporate portals work, and the best, most economic way of making content and services available to everyone within a corporation, as well as all of its suppliers and customers. And web services is the only area of IT seeing any increase in spending over the foreseeable future.

Leveraging Web Services helps CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and senior managers understand how web services can be applied to their own organizations. The book uses case studies and interviews to take readers inside top real-world enterprises that have conceptualized, developed, and implemented this new technology. From stock quotes, content syndication and mapping services, to payroll management, business intelligence, shipping and logistics and other applications, making the most of web services can open up huge possibilities. Featuring examples from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon.com, Leveraging Web Services offers a compelling examination of how the technology can be used for superior results."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (January 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814471951
• ISBN-13: 978-0814471951
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,288,141 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Free whitepapers are better on Internet, February 28, 2004

By	"chris0f0" (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews

I am the CTO for a medium sized business that focuses on eBusiness solutions and software development. Recently, our company has started dabbling in Web Services development, mainly for integrating different types of applications and datasets more quickly. I wanted a book to really go underneath the hood of some successful large scale web services integration projects. I hurriedly did a search on amazon and found this book. Reading it you realize the book was created in a hurry as well. Each chapter consists of a series of quotes from some company's tech guru bragging about how great their web services project went, then the author chimes in and summarizes the quotation. This goes on and on throughout the book and each project is refernced in such general terms ("we had great success integrating application A with app B using web services") that you really don't learn anything. If you want to hear success stories w/o any tech knowledge gained - I recommend downloading the countless whitepapers available on the internet for free.

This book is also very small and it uses a 15 pt font so you will be finished in an hour or so. No meat to this book. I give it one star simply because it looks bleeding edge sitting in my bookcase in my office.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointed, March 30, 2005

By	peter viola (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book never rises above trite journalese and lacks any of the substance promised by the title. I had expected something more insightful.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two John Edwards!!, February 3, 2004

By	Hoppy Doppelrocket (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

Apparently, there are at least two John Edwards. One, the web-savvy bizness man from Arizona. The other, a slick, baby-faced Senator (ne trial lawyer) from North Carolina. I wonder why there are two? Just like the two Americas!!! And Bessie's two Bobos!!! Two is bettah dan one!!!