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Summary of Reports

 Commerce One

 Corechange

 Epicor

 glue:

 Lawson

 NetManage

 PeopleSoft

 SAP

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Management Briefings

 Market Overview | Part 2 | Part 3

 Expert Opinion: Linda Wooldridge of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

 View from the Top: Andy Fawcett, multinational industrial gases supplier BOC | Part 2

 Business Benefits: PA Consulting’s Conrad Thompson | Part 2

 Web Services: David Sewell, IT consultancy Citihub | Part 2

 E-Security: Consultant Paul Cronin | Part 2

 Employee Portals: Pecaso’s Simon Olive reports | Part 2

 Process Sector: Aveva Consulting’s Neil McPhater | Part 2

 Data Management: Martin Pike of Stilo | Part 2

 Portal Development: Imam Hoque of e-business consultancy Rubus | Part 2

 Online Services: Paul Sutcliffe of In-Form Consult | Part 2

 Reader Symposium: Last month’s annual Conspectus readers’ symposium tackled the theme of ‘Facing the Future’. Steve Fox reports

Using web services in content management can open the door to new levels of business-oriented services, says Martin Pike of Stilo.

Giving content a kick - Part 2 | Part 1

One of the major goals of web services is the provision of these open, standard interfaces, which should lower the cost of application ownership by providing flexibility. Obviously the mere exposure of a proprietary API will not achieve that.

One needs to understand how to take advantage of the open nature of the interface to an application that the web service mechanism offers. The ‘loose coupling’ of applications is one of the key ideas to grasp.

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