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Based On Open Standards
Web services are based open standards - HTTP, XML, UDDI, WSDL and SOAP - all of which have near universal acceptance within the software industry. By utilizing these standards you are future proofing your IT investments against vendor "lock in".
Click here to find out more about these standards.
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Loosely Coupled
Web services are designed to leverage loosely coupled interactions between Web service providers and consumers - the data that users consume is entirely decoupled from the source of that data. Loosely coupled services in an SOA provide the ability for applications to respond to changing requirements because they are not hard coded together like systems of the past which slashes the cost of integration.
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Data Exchange
Web services are able to exchange structured documents that contain varying amounts of information. Once your data is available over the messaging bus, it can be served into any format that is applicable to your business using highly available standards such as XSLT (the XML transformation technology).
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Scalable
Web services messages are reliably multicast across multiple machines. Consequently, there is built in redundancy and close to zero additional load on your network as additional applications or services are added.
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Real-Time
Web services are inherently real-time. Messages get actively pushed across the Energy Service Bus so there is no need to "poll" from a database or wait for batch runs to kick off and complete which slashes the time for report generation and other time-consuming processes.
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Reliable
Web services messages are not sent to a particular machine. Instead, they are multicast to a logical address, which can refer to an arbitrarily large number of actual services or machines. This provides a natural mechanism for implementing fault-tolerant services.
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Platform Independent
Web services are accessed securely via the Internet using HTTPS and SMTP protocols - without the need for installed hardware or software. Not only does web access offer tremendous convenience but data can be output in formats optimized for different devices - whether via a web browser, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), 3G mobile phones or other technologies that may become popular in the future.
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