Web Services Spread Slowly Into IT - Computerworld

Webサービスの導入事例と各種課題など。
ウィスコンシン州が9つの調達アプリケーションをWebサービスで統合したとか、RouteOneのクレジットの事例。

Web Services Spread Slowly Into IT - Computerworld

the state of Wisconsin last year used Web services to integrate six procurement systems in less than two weeks, according to CIO Matt Miszewski. And Navitaire Inc., a Minneapolis-based application service provider that houses reservation systems for low-cost airlines, expects to slash infrastructure costs in half by leveraging application development tools and Web services in Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform to migrate its applications.
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RouteOne, a joint venture of DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC, Ford Motor Credit Co., General Motors Acceptance Corp. and Toyota Financial Services Corp. that was formed to provide a Web-based credit application management system, has built its entire business on XML and Web services.

"Security was a gimme for us [because] it is the dealers' customer data going across," said T.N. Subramaniam, chief architect at RouteOne in Farmington Hills, Mich. "We tried to do it in software by rolling our own, but it was too slow for the volume of messaging."

The company now uses Cambridge, Mass.-based DataPower Technology Inc.'s secure gateway product, a wire-speed XML-aware networking device that digitally encrypts and signs the entire payload of RouteOne's messages without affecting performance, Subramaniam said.