Business Aspects of Web Services - 9783642224461

Business Aspects of Web ServicesAuthor(s): Christof Weinhardt, Benjamin Blau, Tobias Conte, Lilia Filipova-Neumann, Thomas Meinl, Wibke Michalk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany\nImprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K\nISBN-13: 9783642224461, 978-3642224461\nSynopsis\nDriven by maturing Web service technologies and the wide acceptance of the service-oriented architecture paradigm, the software industrys traditional business models and strategies have begun to change: software vendors are turning into service providers. In addition, in the Web service market, a multitude of small and highly specialized providers offer modular services of almost any kind and economic value is created through the interplay of various distributed service providers that jointly contribute to form individualized and integrated solutions. This trend can be optimally catalyzed by universally accessible service orchestration.