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Saturday, August 24, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0231.pdf Web Services in Higher Education — Hype, Reality, Opportunities Bernard W. Gleason Web Services are a set of software standards that govern the secure exchange of data and services over the Internet. The term can be misleading, so perhaps the best way to understand the concept is by a simple example. Suppose a mail-order company has a partner agreement with a package delivery service. After a customer places an order over the Web, a Web Service lets the customer track the shipment’s status from within the originating mailorder company’s application. Web Services are the middleware glue that helps integrate these disparate and distributed applications and facilitates the timely sharing of information. Web Services eliminate the need for an institution to discard or architecturally modify existing core business or legacy applications, or to move data and functions into a single operating environment to achieve integration. Whether an institution has invested in a large enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or elected to keep its legacy application system, new requirements and new opportunities to integrate these core systems with other business functions will result in improved efficiency for both the institution and its business partners....
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