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Subject: [provision] Gartner's note on "Web Services Provisioning"
Gartner has a recent cluster on "Charting Web Services Opportunities" and notes Web Services Provisioning as a distinct area: See http://www3.gartner.com/1_researchanalysis/focus_areas/ipws/ipws022202/i pws022202.jsp The note is on the article titled "Key Entry Points into Web Services Markets". Excerpt: Web Services Provisioning Web services provide a new opportunity for companies, and even individuals, to become suppliers of business services internally and over the Web. Recognizing this, Gartner has developed an implementation model called the "service station," which leverages some of the best features of Web services and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, with the goal of opening up the path to tighter collaboration and more cost-effective document sharing. The advent of Web services and the interest in P2P models make the service station concept particularly timely for strategic and opportunistic applications (see "The Service Station: A P2P Web Services Usage Model," COM-15-0042). Former application service providers (ASPs) will seek out this market to build a new business model. Other players will include traditional service providers, such as Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms. New players in this market will come from commodity service Web services (e.g., those handling hotel reservations, package shipping and banking services), which will trigger new classes of business opportunity. In addition, former applications vendors (e.g., SAP and PeopleSoft) will provide an increasing amount of their applications functionality in a service-based model. Finally, structuring Web services so that they can be located with relative ease or for aggregators to gather them, based on quality and category, will create business opportunities for enterprises to redefine and sell themselves as Web services. Market Opportunity: Enterprises should explore the possibility that Web services will catalyze a lucrative business opportunity where service provision expertise and quality of service, rather than technology expertise, will define winners and losers. Representative Vendors: ISPs, application vendors and ASPs
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