1) What are the purpose and business value of Web services?
Amazon is platform charge more in web technology services from its website, they realize that if they have all bottled-up intellectual as developers in their services, they will be more valuable to the Amazon, so they create "programmable web" where programmer can have access to data and functionality website.
Furthermore, while EBay took an invitation-only developer program to make e-commerce software available to the public, they could download it, it was a development kit, it has some tools from Borland, Microsoft and companies that develop tools based on Java language, and so over 8,000 became members of the development program.
The aim is to sell products and act as a guide platform websites for their customers it can alter the data and information in real time. Web Services also creates a business data exchange through which they run, such as e-commerce and e-business. Moreover, most of the business is the employees as business programmers, the customer such as Intel and McDonald's, it uses the Internet, telecommunications support electronic trading, share resources and develop services. By the way the business may be able to share with customers, suppliers and other business partners all the information needed.
2) What are the benefits of Web services to Amazon, eBay, and their developer partners?
Web services to Amazon, eBay, and their developer partners is that they expand the possibilities to any company that wants an e-commerce, they present tools and technology for integrating web platforms with web services, they create software apps that expand the market of the clients, Amazon offers different categories as product details, search, capabilitie...
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In addition, it because too many challenges for Web services business, they need to focus on core business processes. An opportunity for outsourcing, offshoring, and application hosting company now provides many options that allow them to concentrate. In addition, they must provide the service website that can attract customers to use.
Moreover, the Web services paradigm is expected to transform the Web into a distributed application-to-application networks. Web services landscape is in a constant state of change with core specifications almost mature and more widely accepted by users. But for some specific web service concept in the development of specifications exist. In addition, developers have started to use the primary Web service standards to be familiar with their distinguished opportunities in connectivity, interchangeable handle and easy to us
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Amazon.com uses an internally developed system for its Website and substantially all aspects of transaction processing, including:
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