A Performance Evaluation of Web Services Infrastructure

Burton Group's Selecting Web Services Infrastructure Workshop includes on-site training, a facilitated planning session, and a written report with recommendations your project team can use to build and communicate a Web services infrastructure strategy. At the conclusion of the engagement, your team will have a comprehensive awareness of Web services technology and deployment issues specific to your organization, as well as a high-level action plan for moving forward with integration-related initiatives. Web services infrastructure projects typically require multiple stakeholders — including information technology (IT), corporate security, and application owners — to resolve complex technical and process issues. When a Web services initiative gets underway, the architects, business analysts, and system administrators often ask tough questions about performance, scalability, extensibility, security, management, interoperability, provisioning, and administration. How these issues are handled can impact the development process and team composition. The Web services infrastructure initiative can be a catalyst to rethink the development process and create a more efficient organization to meet the demands of an agile business strategy. A successful solution delivers a secure, scalable, reliable, and extensible Web services environment. The Selecting Web Services Infrastructure Workshop addresses organizational and project challenges by helping your extended team of integration stakeholders understand the technology, issues, and dynamics of evaluating, selecting, and deploying new Web service infrastructure components. It generates buy-in and prepares your team to move forward. The Selecting Web Services Infrastructure Workshop is designed to help your organization overcome the challenges of deploying the new technologies, products, and best practices used to integrate business processes across disparate application platforms and organizational boundaries. The workshop will cover Web services infrastructure components, products, and market trends to bring your project team up to speed on service interface design practices, development techniques, and service management approaches. The workshop consists of three segments: on-site training, facilitated planning, and post-session reporting. The training portion of the Selecting Web Services Infrastructure Workshop addresses the needs of both senior management and technologists. Burton Group also offers customized tutorial presentations. Additionally, the workshop will be a forum to provide feedback on the team's initial assumptions. Burton Group conducts the facilitated planning portion of the workshop in a structured format. Using special survey tools, a Burton Group consultant captures a snapshot of your overall Web services and integration environment. Burton Group also takes the opportunity to invite stakeholders from IT, security, and line-of-business organizations (as appropriate) to describe and discuss …