Dan Gisolfi gisolfius'ibm'com

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OASIS WSCM Technical Committee January 2002
IBMs Business Requirements for WSCM
Dan Gisolfi (gisolfi_at_us.ibm.com) jStart Emerging
Technologies, IBM SWG IBM WSXL Team
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Business Objectives

• Reduce the cost of
• developing interactive Web applications
• delivering them to end users thru 3rd parties
• maintaining them to the changing requirements
  imposed by new business models
• Enable enterprises to
• Achieve an effective user experience that is
  appealing, efficient, and easily branded and/or
  aggregated by business partners
• Support business flexibility thru reconfiguration
• to add new distribution partners and application
  content providers quickly
• to change and update applications without being
  dependent on business relationships.
• Leverage existing skills and infrastructure

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Who is the target audience?

• Interactive Application Providers
• Creators of interactive web applications
• Interactive Application Integrators
• Distributors of branded, enhanced or modified
  user experiences
• Portal developers that aggregate multiple web
  applications into a single interactive user
  experience
• Utility Service providers who need to reconfigure
  and package existing user-facing business services

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Application Integration

• Business Requirements
• Ease of change Application Providers need to
  extend existing software assets to the web with
  minimal development, deployment and maintenance
  cost.
• Ease of adaptation Application Integrators
  require access to value-added content with
  reduced acquisition costs

Application Provider
Application Integrator
Users

HTTP (HTML)
Travelers Check Application
WSXL Pres
HTTP(SOAP)

HTTP(HTML)
WSXL Application
WSXL Application
Branded Travelers Check Application
WSXL Runtime
WSXL Runtime
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Seamless Tight Integration

• Business Requirements
• Ease of aggregation Application Integrators seek
  to group several applications into a single user
  experience, such as a portal.
• Ease of integration Application Integrators need
  to create a new presentations by seamlessly
  combining several independently created
  applications.
• Interoperability Application providers and
  integrators seek to create new value-added
  interactive user experiences from a variety of
  business component services without increasing
  development costs or adding interoperability
  risks.

Application Provider
Application Integrator
Users
WSXL Data
WSXL Pres

WSXL Control
HTTP(SOAP)
HTTP(HTML)


StockPlot Data Input
StockPlot Graph Generator
WSXL Application
WSXL Application
WSXL Runtime
WSXL Runtime
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Leverage the Emerging Web Services Technology
Stack
WSXL is built on widely accepted established and
emerging open standards, and is designed to be
independent of execution platform, browser, and
presentation markup.