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South Florida Web Service
MVI offers web Services for South Florida business that needs to grow thru better use of technology. Technology can make mundane functions simple by eliminating requests to un-complicate the business processes. Items such as E commerce, CRM, Contact Organizers, Inventory control, MLM, organize data between different locations, POS, business tools to improve service such as tickets systems, time logging and database integration.
South Florida businesses must prepare a framework that will have greater and more instant access to customers, consumers, and vendors, which literally span the entire globe. That is, of course, for those businesses which have suitable business plan and MVI stands ready to assist.
Centralize Data Globally Accessible The ability to centralize information in a globally accessible manner is definitely a plus for the company Internet. This has been one of the major problems in organizations, which have several divisions and even more applications. For example, the contact details of a customer or even an employee have traditionally been bound to one application and then either copied to another application via cut and paste, or via sophisticated integration programs, or completely re-entered altogether.
The Web Services approach allows this information to be stored and universally retrieved by any application, which requires the information, in a common and defined manner, independent of platform and programming environment. This characteristic, more than any other, is what makes Web Services the hallmark of the next generation of the information age.
The important emerging standards for Web Services are UDDI (Universal Discovery Description Integration), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) 5 and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). UDDI defines the method for discovering a Web service and WSDL describes the service to be discovered and how to access the service once it has been discovered. SOAP and XML are the underlying methods used to access the UDDI registry and communicate with the Web Services.
MVI Services has already staked claims in the Web services territory. The economic downturn in 2001 may in fact be a silver lining for the enterprise software field when it comes to Web services. What is happening is that the really tough economic environment has created a slowdown that is actually going to be a good for Web service vendors, because it will help support a slow transition.
Protracted Timetable will elapse before mainstream companies will start feeling great pressure to migrate to Web services application platforms. In 2003 thru 2005, MVI and other software makers are releasing the first, leading-edge applications, which are being deployed only by highly advanced, large enterprises.
In the 2009 timeframe, we expect wide implementation of Web services standards. MVI will begin to release long-awaited killer applications based on the new architecture, and e-commerce packages have already been released. A select group of major software companies are driving development of Web services standards and products through their early involvement. Not surprisingly, Microsoft tops the list with its .NET product family, which includes an extensive set of development tools. Network hardware and software makers Sun Microsystems, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and MediaVue are also players.
On the enterprise software side, ERP (enterprise resource planning) company Oracle made the list of bigwigs, along with platform maker BEA Systems and, of course, IBM, with its enormous WebSphere push. South Florida businesses and IT executives may have a hard time deciding how and when to make the jump. Many managers may begin now by assessing their infrastructure needs and computing the costs involved in moving enterprise applications to a Web services architecture.
Before committing to any application migrations, IT groups should become more familiar with the challenges and advantages. MVI would like to offer local support to the South Florida IT execs and business owners to consult to make informed decisions about migration and establish a realistic timetable
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