Are your Web services up to snuff? Do they run smoothly, work the way they should? Are you sure? If you're looking for a lower-cost way to test them -- and you and your staff have some solid development skills -- check out the open-source Web service testing tools we recently put through the wringer: soapUI, TestMaker, and WebInject. They're all quite solid performance wise, but some are more capable than others, and some have a steeper learning curve. The choice is yours.
I can see clearly now: Maybe it's a case of not wanting to reveal how they make the sausage, but not many companies offer real insight into how their business runs. That's why David Margulius was surprised to find that Intel's 2006 IT Performance Report offered so much transparency into how and why it runs its business. Read this week's Enterprise insight column, take a gander at the Intel report PDF, and get a better look under Intel's hood.
