Washington Group International, a construction and project management company, is finding one of the most visible benefits of its emerging service-oriented architecture is service reuse.
A number of the firm’s applications now can access its document management system through a single service. “In the past, we had to build point-to-point connections between every application and the document management backend,” relates Rich Colton, application integration manager for the Boise, Idaho-based company. With Web services, we’ve only had to implement an API in one place. Then we built a series of components around a Web service that our applications can use.”
