The emerging market for mobile web-services: a proposition in many guises.: Industry

The emerging market for mobile web-services: a proposition in many guises.

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: June 2003
Product Code: R313-9424

Description

Introduction:
As discussion of mobile web-services proliferates, so do interpretations of what they are. This thought leadership piece investigates understandings for enterprise mobility, the mobile operator, mobile solution vendors, enterprise management solution vendors and the potential role for 3rd party service providers.

Scope:
* While this report contains no opportunity sizing (given the nascence of the market), it is global in relevance

* Future business models have relevance for network providers, for application vendors and enterprises alike

* Companies mentioned in this report include Blue Titan, Cape Clear, Dexterra, Flamenco Networks, Iona, Infravio, Talking Blocks and WestGlobal

Report Highlights:
Ramifications of the development of component-based technology inside and outside the enterprise.

Suggestions for future operator roles in the provision of mobile web-services, to avoid relegation to the role of 'pipe'.

Discussion of the ramifications for Enterprise Management, of rolling out web-services to mobile devices.

Reasons to Purchase:
* Start considering your company's abilities in light of business models discussed, and therefore the necessary strategy for your company to pursue

* Determine if your company can achieve a return on any assets and can offer those as a service, or make use of those of partners

* Learn about companies / competitors that have already made tentative steps towards pursuing new markets

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Putting definitions in a mobile context

Operator role

Partnerships

Conclusion

CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS A MOBILE WEB-SERVICE?

What is a web-service?

Employment of web-service standards and tools is currently an internal integration play

CHAPTER 3 WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE

Componentization not in short-term vendor interest

Web-services affect a change in the perception of middleware

Security ‘outside the box’

Securing mobile enterprise portal use

CHAPTER 4 EXTENDING THE ENTERPRISE

Messaging standards / transport issues

Document- or delta - change?

XML compression

Mobile solution design and management

Service consumption dictates management centricity

Addressing management of a web-services environment

Where does traditional enterprise management fit?

CHAPTER 5 OPERATOR AS SERVICE PROVIDER?

In the context of the enterprise

The direct model

The indirect model

CHAPTER 6 HOW DOES THE TECHNOLOGY STACK UP?

Some current issues requiring resolution

Microsoft environment

Symbian environment

CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION

Mobile web-services as enterprise extension

Mobile web-services as public service

Mobile web-services as operator ROA

CHAPTER 8 APPENDIX

Definitions

Further reading

References and links

SPP writing team

How to contact experts in your industry

List of Tables

List of Figures

Figure 1: The mobile services eco-system

Figure 2: Integrating the back-end

Figure 3: ‘Dipping’ into back-end information

Figure 4: Mobile solution evolution

Figure 5: Mobility delivers business agility

Figure 6: Extending the enterprise

Figure 7: Building blocks in place - emergence of tools to give business context

Figure 8: Deployment and adoption offer multiple vendor opportunities

Figure 9: Managing IT assets by business results versus by architecture component

Figure 10: WestGlobal’s view of web-service management

Figure 11: Mobile operator as direct / indirect service provider

Figure 12: Mobile operators: return on assets

Figure 13: How they stack up: Microsoft v. Java environment

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