The potential to use SOA to drive software development productivity gains is one of its key attractions, according to Sandy Carter, IBM's vice president, WebSphere strategy, channels and marketing.
Web services are improving supply chain and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) network management. As companies such as IBM and Ariba develop better service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services at the partner and customer end, providers such as Arch Rock are pushing wireless Web services-enabled networking onto the shop floor and to previously inaccessible production locations.
