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Web services (in technical terms) are services delivered over the Internet utilizing standard Internet protocols. These protocols, formats, and specifications known as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI form a powerful base for the implementation of sophisticated distributed business applications.
The nature of web services enforces applications which are dissimilar to common enterprise solutions (like J2EE enterprise applications) with regard to their architecture. Loose coupling of components by web services leads to a service-oriented approach, where the functionality (and semantics) of the interface defines an integrated architecture of distributed web services.
Web services are proven building blocks and are not only suitable for enterprise-sized solutions. Instead, this type of technology has spread into device-related areas and domains of standard applications and solutions. Not by chance, the usage of web service technology significantly alleviates the integration task for mobile and embedded devices.
Thus, the complex integration of and access to device resources and functionality and also services is simplified and it enables the standardized and efficient creation of solutions which advertise the seamless participation of mobile devices in business processes like the realization of new mobile maintenance scenarios.
C-LAB focuses on using web services as one important instance of integration technologies especially for the area of mobile and embedded devices. Our portfolio spans from feasibility studies and market analysis to the support of design and implementation for such solutions.
Our customers receive comprehensive and competent support beginning with the analysis of both business processes, offering user-centered design and ending with the definition and realization of the technical solution.
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