|
|
Article: CIOs should govern Web services now. (Issue analysis).
- Article from:
- MSI
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Companies are deploying Web services aggressively to tie together internal and external business processes, with 41 percent in some stage of rolling them out, and 11 percent already in production. But current information technology (IT) governance will mismanage Web services.
Even though most companies anticipate little difficulty managing Web services--given that most are awaiting the maturation of standards--Web services deployments have a free-form nature that poses challenges. In a complacent environment, use of Web services will proliferate beyond the reach of IT's normal approach to software development, deployment, and operation. Why? Any developer can ...