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Web Services Articles
Help Abounds
For Users
All the major consulting firms have invested in the new technology, training
programmers, setting up dedicated development centers, and forging ties
with technology vendors. The goal? To become attractive to Wall Street
firms moving to a services-based architecture. Securities Industry News
talked to a number of consulting companies and asked what advice they
have to offer Wall Street firms looking to deploy Web services. Here are
some of their suggestions.
Securities
Industry News (May 5, 2003)
Wonders
of Soap: A Dream for Users, Nightmare for Vendors
Everybody and his brother has a different definition of Web services,
but it's really very simple: Web services are built with Soap (Simple
Object Access Protocol). If it ain't got Soap, it's not a Web service.
Securities Industry News
Feature (May 2003)
As Standards Evolve, Platforms Improve
This year, Microsoft, IBM, BEA and Sun Microsystems are expanding on their
basic Web services development frameworks to offer support for the latest
security and transaction protocols, improve Web services coordination,
and add more management tools.
Securities Industry News
Feature (May 2003)
Web Services: Set for Prime time
Wall Street firms are already enjoying the benefits of Web services for
internal integration, but a lack of security standards has hindered use
outside corporate firewalls. That situation will start to change in 2003
as standards-setting bodies are expected to agree on methods to ensure
that Web services are safe and secure. A standards-based way to connect
disparate applications, Web services offer lower costs and quicker deployment
than other integration mechanisms.
Securities
Industry News (January 6, 2003)
The Downside Of Web Services: Security
Risks
As Web services proliferate across Wall Street, new security vulnerabilities
will also appear, experts warn. The first and most obvious concern is
the lack of common security and transaction standards. "Because of
the stage of maturation of the security standards, you have to be very
selective about how you use Web services outside of the enterprise,"
said Merrill Lynch CTO John McKinley. Merrill Lynch has been on the leading
edge this past year in deploying Web services in the enterprise, and has
joined the Web Services Interoperability Organization, an industry group,
in order to bring a Wall Street user perspective to standards development.
Securities
Industry News (December 23, 2002)
IBM-BEA Deal: Buy Solaris, Get
WebLogic Free
Just in time for the holidays, customers who buy Sun's Solaris 9 operating
system will get six free months of BEA Systems' WebLogic Server. The deal
may be a sign that Sun is having problems with its own Sun One Application
Server, but it's a great coup for BEA in its competition against IBM's
WebSphere.
Securities
Industry News (December 23, 2002)
WebSphere Upgraded But Hindered by
Standards Gap
Billed as offering better security, business process work flow and management
tools, IBM's new WebSphere Application Server version 5 (WSAS 5), released
on Nov. 25, lets companies better integrate their business processes across
the enterprise and with partners, suppliers and customers. But it's still
a partial solution. The general lack of common standards for security
and complex transaction processing means this latest release still requires
some negotiations between partners.
Securities
Industry News (December 9, 2002)
IBM,
BEA Face Microsoft STP Competition
While Microsoft recently entered the straight-through processing fray
with a new Web services tool set, industry leaders IBM and BEA Systems
continue to expand on their integration products. BEA unveiled a new way
to bring together data from disparate sources earlier this month, and
IBM continues to expand on its WebSphere product line, with a new version
due the end of the month.
Securities Industry News
(November 2002)
Microsoft
Upgrades BizTalk
Microsoft is releasing a new set of integration tools on Nov. 4 that work
with its BizTalk server application. The new tools will go head-to-head
against products from BEA Systems and IBM.
Securities Industry News
(November 2002)
Web
Services
Technology Quick Study:
Web services are a new class of applications that can talk and work with
one another over the Internet...
Computerworld
Sep. 24, 2001
More
Java Spilling Across Wall Street Enterprises
Java has hit prime time on Wall Street. The language is versatile because
the same program can run on any machine or device. "You develop once
and run wherever you want..."
Securities
Industry News Apr. 1, 2002
Microsoft
Gears Up to Battle Java on Wall Street
The World Wide Web didn't make Windows obsolete and
Microsoft won the browser wars-just in time for the next battle, the war
over Web services…
Securities
Industry News Oct. 29, 2001
Web Services
on the Real-Time Internet
The U.S. government may be trying to break up Microsoft's
monopoly through lawsuits, but the real battle over the company's
future is being fought on a different front. It involves a new way of
writing software, called Web services, and it promises to make operating
systems, the very thing that forms the foundation of the Microsoft empire,
irrelevant…
e-Securities
Aug./Sep. 2001
Wall
Street Releases Draft XML Standard
The RIXML.org Standards Committee has released a draft
version of RIXML 1.0 that's aimed at giving brokerages a common language
for describing equity research...
Computerworld
Insurance
Carriers Move to Crumple Paper Processes
Two insurance industry projects that promise to automate
formerly paper-based processes are going live this month, involving industry
powerhouses The St. Paul Cos., AIG and The Hartford...
Computerworld02
Apr 01
Internet
Changes Insurance Back Offices
Although lagging behind other financial services, insurance
companies have begun to use the Internet to change the way they run the
back office and communicate with agents...
Computerworld
13 Nov 00
XML
Gains Momentum in Financial Services Industry
Yet another XML-based standard has been added to the
library of different protocols already being developed for financial services.
RIXML -- Research Information Exchange Markup Language -- promises to
make it easier for investors to share data about companies...
Computerworld30
Oct 00
Power
Brokers Race to Trade On International Markets
In the quest for overseas trading dollars, U.S. brokerages
are forging alliances at a furious pace. From Asia to Australia, these
partnerships - enabled by IP, XML and other technologies - bring local
populations the opportunity to buy U.S.-listed stocks, either online ...
Computerworld
14 Aug 00
The
Speed Of Money
Online payments have met with a great deal of resistance,
but analysts say things are starting to change. New moves by startups
and banks to close security gaps and open the doors to more businesses
are helping to speed the use of online business-to-business transactions...
Computerworld14
Aug 00
Financiers
Aim to Unify XML Standards
A new financial services industry group is trying to
weed through two dozen existing XML-based financial standards to come
up with one universal lexicon...
Computerworld
10 Jul 00
Group
Seeks Web Banking Standard
The Financial Services Technology Consortium, which includes
banks, research firms and government agencies, will meet June 15 to discuss
the creation of a new standard to exchange customers' financial data
with aggregator Web sites...
Computerworld
12 Jun 00
Bank
consortium to explore new customer data-exchange standard
The Financial Services Technology Consortium, which includes
banks, research firms and government agencies, will meet June 15 to discuss
the creation of a new standard to exchange customers' financial data
with aggregator Web sites...
Computerworld
Larger
banks have edge in electronic CRM, report says
Big financial institutions may have an edge over small
and nimble Internet upstarts in electronic customer relationship management,
according to a new report by Meridien Research...
Computerworld
28 Apr 00
Finance
Players Back XML-Based Standard
Biggest players back new XML-based financial standard...
Computerworld
17 Apr 00
Big
names back new XML-based financial standard
The world's top financial institutions have formed
a consortium to promote an XML-based standard for exchanging financial
data over the Internet...
Computerworld
07 Apr 00
Internet-Based
Foreign Exchange Service Debuts
Barclays, Charles Schwab team up to offer online currency
trading...
Computerworld13
Mar 00
Bank
to launch Web-based foreign exchange service
Barclays, Charles Schwab team up to offer online currency
trading -- but U.S. investors will have to wait...
Computerworld
08 Mar 00
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