Calculated Risks
- Topics:
- Strategy Formulation
- Tags:
- Adopters Web Service,
- Web Service,
- Web,
- Strategy,
- Software,
- Roi/Tco,
- Risk,
- Marketing,
- Managerial Accounting,
- Management,
- ...
- Source:
- IDG (International Data Group)
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Overview: Diverse companies are rolling out Web services in defiance of the risks, looking for early mover advantage, ROI projected in the millions, and huge cost savings over developing and deploying software in conventional ways. Early adopters web services are betting that by investing in multiple standards, performing extra due diligence on vendors and keeping a long-term outlook, the effort were worthwhile. Article discusses how the three very different organizations—Motorola, the U.S. Navy, and Wells Fargo—are addressing five major risks of Web services in their deployment strategies. First risk was that the web services are not secure, second risk was the lack of standards breeds complexity, third risk was vendors might go out of business, fourth was adoption by partners is unpredictable, fifth was that there was no evidence yet for enterprise ROI.
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Format: HTML | Date: Oct 2003 | Pages: 1
