In the age of Web Services, a company's purchasing application communicates via the Internet directly with a supplier's warehousing application to check price and availability, submitting the purchase order to the supplier's shipping application automatically, with little or no human intervention. ... In more details, by exposing critical business functions to the internet, Web Services can expose valuable corporate data, as well as applications and systems, to a variety of external threats. ... Classic examples are a web site being vandalized or confidential data from a mainfra...

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Abstract Everybody is talking about e-business. We know its modern and many are going for it, but why? What are the real benefits? Is it really worth the effort? What is it all about? Correct answers to these questions may be the key to success of an e-business project and its long-term benefit. An...

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The Internet is defined as global networks defined by a set of open standards for communicating data and information between computers. ... Most consumers are overjoyed that they are now given the opportunity to purchase products right from their home by simply clicking a mouse button or entering data on their computer keypads. ... Grocery stores would shut down, and millions of jobs would be lost in which shopping centers would be replaced by giant warehouses to assist the Internet shopping consumers. ...

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