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Web service orchestration technology provides a solution to critical
business integration problems at substantially reduced risk. Until now,
users who needed to automate business flows had basically three options:
- Use expensive and proprietary EAI suites
- Develop a custom
project using a mainstream development methodology, such as Java/J2EE or
- Do nothing and wait
The continued convergence in standards,
enterprise infrastructure and application architecture yields a fourth
option, namely Web service orchestration.
This technology enjoyes lower complexity and lower cost, resulting in
dramatic reduction in the risk associated with undertaking these IT
projects while leveraging widely available development skill sets,
existing IT assets and ensuring long-term interoperability. The maturing
of the Web services standards and technologies, combined with the
lightweight pricing models and moderate learning curve associated with
them, means that a budget-conscious CIO must investigate this option.
And then, the all important ability to begin a $2M project with a $200K
for the first phase that, in and of itself, can achieve positive ROI.
You can't get much less risk than that for complex integration projects,
which likely drives most of the attention in Web Service Orchestration
nowadays.
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