Pixie Dust Or Technology Panacea?: Standards for developing Web services for core insurance processing still need to emerge. From: Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for TechnologyManagement | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Griffin, Rodney | COPYRIGHT 2004 Thomson Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

With almost every software vendor scrambling to reposition products to address the Web services technology paradigm, Web services have arguably become the hottest phenomenon in today's IT market.

But in the stampede to get on the Web services bandwagon, the definition of Web services has become so corrupted and abused that the true meaning has been lost and the value often misunderstood.

Defining Web services

Just what are Web services? The answer d...