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• Web Services Backplane: Infrastructure for Web Services

  Provides Model for Web Services Architecture and Value Proposition

  by Susan Aldrich

  The Web Services Backplane is the most critical investment category for Web Services.
  Jan. 2, 2003

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• Portal Framework

  Our Framework for Evaluating and Comparing Portal Platforms

  by David Marshak

  We present our framework for evaluating portal platform products. The framework enables product-to-product comparisons on functionality, services, and architectural levels.
  Dec. 12, 2002

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• The Bekins Company

  Moving into the Future with Web Services

  by David Marshak

  The Bekins Company has used a Web Services approach to create a virtual marketplace among its agents for tendering its home delivery.
  Nov. 27, 2002

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• What Are The Issues Around Single Sign-On?

  Portal Q & A

  by David Marshak

  Addressing the question of single sign-on for portals is more difficult as the complexity of the portal increases.
  Nov. 14, 2002

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• Portal Q & A

  If You Build it, Will They Come?

  by David Marshak

  The answer to how do you train portal users depends on whether you are building Workspace portals or Resource Portals.
  Oct. 3, 2002

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• IBM's WebSphere Portal Express for Medium Businesses:

  Its Goal: To Lower Cost and Complexity Barriers

  by David Marshak

  IBM introduces WebSphere Portal Express, a portal offering aimed at small and medium business.
  Oct. 3, 2002

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• Cysive Applies Web Services to Create Flexible Business Scenarios

  Cymbio Interaction Server V2 Connects Users and Devices to an Orderly Back-End Façade

  by Susan Aldrich

  Cysive’s Cymbio Interaction Server is a high-end interaction and business process composition environment that uses Web Services standards as the base for creating a uniform façade for all application assets.
  Sep. 19, 2002

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• The State of Portlet Standards:

  Clearing Up the Confusion

  by David Marshak

  Major steps are being taken to bring standards into building Portlets, including a common Java API and a remote Portlet extension to Web Services.
  Sep. 12, 2002

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• Web Services Sell Groceries at Tesco.com

  New Approach Provides Rich Customer Experience and Future-Proofs the Home-Shopping Application

  by Susan Aldrich

  Tesco.com, the world’s most successful Internet grocer, is using Web Services to reach customers via handhelds and desktops.
  Aug. 29, 2002

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• Oracle Enters Collaboration Race:

  Oracle Will Soon Offer an Alternative to Microsoft Exchange; Will Anyone Migrate?

  by David Marshak

  Oracle will release an e-mail and collaboration product later this year that is technologically competition to Microsoft Exchange and IBM’s Lotus Domino. The company, however, faces an uphill battle trying to dislodge these entrenched market leaders.
  Jul. 25, 2002

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• Why Build Web Services Using Vendor-Provided Core Services?

  Lessons in SOA

  by Susan Aldrich

  The value of Web Services derives in part from adopting Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) based on layers of shared core services. Should you use vendors' versions of core services or build your own?
  Jun. 6, 2002

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• Anatomy of Web Services:

  Five Technology Categories and Selection Criteria

  by Susan Aldrich

  In seizing the Web Services opportunity, use these guidelines to select technologies from our five categories.
  May. 16, 2002

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• Standard Life

  Creating the Infrastructure to Take Advantage of Changing Business Conditions

  by David Marshak

  Standard Life of the UK has migrated to a standards-based hub-and-spoke architecture which enables the company to quickly provide new e-business applications for its agents and customers.
  Dec. 20, 2001

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• How Do You Manage Your E-Business?

  Your Workers Are Invisible, and Their Managers May Not Be on Board

  by Susan Aldrich

  As business shifts to ebusiness, IT problems have become business problems. Electronic business systems, which automate business processes and allow customers to serve themselves, must have automated management systems.
  Dec. 14, 1999

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