Managing Digital Organizations Web Services Business Value Team 6 03/07/05 Management Workshop Arsalan A. Lodhi Pankaj Luthra Daniel M.
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Managing Digital Organizations
Web Services Business Value
Team 6
03/07/05
Management Workshop
Arsalan A. Lodhi
Pankaj Luthra
Daniel M. Li
Managing Digital Organization
Key Issues
Biggest Challenge!
Tremendous pressure to drive growth by productivity and squeezing cost
How do we achieve productivity?
Intelligent automated responsive business model
What does that mean?
- Componentized and prioritize your processes
For example – credit card authentication, supplier lookup, risk management
suite, etc
- Enable processes to be responsive to the dynamics of market
For example – have systems find the best and cost effective supplier themselves
and place an order
- Improve connectivity both internally and externally
For example – systems that are closely connected to each other will streamline
business processes and improve reliability
How do I achieve all that ……?
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Web Services
What is it ?
a standard way to leverage your existing IT infrastructure component talks to
other components within the same enterprise, across the enterprise with your
customer and supplier.
Can be seen as a way to integrate IT applications built using different
technologies.
What is the problem?
½ of 80% of companies that had to alter their business models could not do so
because of inflexible IT. ERP systems reduce fragmentation and silos, but lock
companies into rigid business processes.
Value Proposition
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Faster response to customer priorities and shifting markets
Faster delivery of business change, both internal and external
Higher end-to-end process value
Reduced cost of change
Build inventory of service component to be re-used for
different business model scenarios.
Streamline and simplifies information management.
Flexibility in the integration of both internal and external components
to improve business processes.
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Web Services Value > new market
Create new distribution and discovery channels
Enable more innovation
Drive Productivity and cost effectiveness
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Web Services value > loosely coupled applications
Leverage assets across enterprise when wrapped around services by breaking vendor
specific communication channels
Generate new businesses and stream of revenue by selling internal core expertise as
services
for example: CitiConnect – Citibank payment processing service
Improve business intelligence by acquiring real time business performance data by
integrating once-siloed applications/departments
Improve time to market as connections to partners and customers can be made faster
even dynamic
More choices of vendors and partners to pick on the basis of cost effectiveness and
excellent service: same communication language leads to intelligent systems to pick and
place order to new vendors
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Web Services value > Lower IT Budgets
Lower the cost of connection, management, and integration
Reduces complexity of integration – Open architecture simplifies third-party
implementation
Delivers platform and technology independence – businesses will no longer
worry about picking right suit of applications to match existing Infrastructure
Creates stack of component based inventory of services lead to reduce
deployment cost
Support for multiple client types
Higher availability – one system down will not affect the entire business
Reduce development cost as integration and communication of component will
be based on Industry Standards
Eliminate need to rip and replace – more of a plug ‘n play framework
Facilitates grid computing – workload is distributed across cheap machines –
example of Google
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Web Services value > Strategy Perspective
Buy services on a need basis, shifting development/maintenance burden to
service providers.
Latest technology available - service providers will compete to provide up-todate technology to keep their market share.
Some online services can be sold to other companies as a potential source of
revenue.
Enhanced services for customers, leading to increased customer satisfaction
(Allstate insurance)
Effective communication with vendors streamlines supply chain and cuts costs
of stockpiling inventory/maintaining warehouses. (DELL corp)
Increased employee efficiency (UnumProvident)
Facilitated Grid Computing – reduced operating costs.(Hewitt)
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Evaluating Vendors
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Considerations while choosing Technology
Lifespan – shouldn’t be replacing technology every 2-3 years
– XML, SOAP, HTTP offer 7-8 yrs lifespan.
Comparative ease of implementation – a relative measure
Comparative costs – another relative measure as compared to other
technology/vendors
Security – should be based upon “INDUSTRY STANDARD” security protocols
Scalability – ease of adding extra functionality or additional users as or when
needed.
Reliability
Interoperability
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Considerations while selecting vendors
Vendors that conform the most to existing industry standards.
Stable, mature companies with a history of reliable customer service.
Vendors who are experts in their field and intend to remain among the market
leaders.
Vendor should be able to support your system for the duration of its lifespan.
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What are the disadvantages of WS?
Relatively New
- No established “Best Practice” methodology in this realm
- Prone to implementation risks.
- Lack of security standards – Still being finalized by vendors as they work toward achieving a common set of
protocols
- Many specifications/standards are still “work in progress”
Some Problems with Availability and Reliability
- Easy to become overly dependent on service providers.
- No website is available 100%, service providers can become unavailable.
- Initially requires a certain amount of commitment between partners.
Increased Competition
- Competitors can also easily implement very similar services.
- Service providers can also cater to the competition.
- Services become more increasingly commoditized
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is it more hype from IT industry - why not?
- Technology providers have been investing heavily in implementing Web Services infrastructure
- Support from major vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Siebel, and SAP
- New standards are created and approved by bodies such as OASIS, WS-I, and W3C for reliable deployment of
transactions, workflow, e-commerce, messaging and security
What is the ROI on Web Services?
- ROI is usually hard to establish in terms of dollar amounts; a better measure would be the strategic value added:
- Business Process Efficiency
• Improved information management and accessibility by business processes
• Real-time and straight through processing (ie. up-to-date inventory and order processing)
• Customer, partner, and employee enablement
- Business Process Efficiency
• Not locked into proprietary technology
• Wide choice of suppliers and improved quality through competition
• Reduction in technology costs through commoditization
- Lower Entry Barrier
• Low cost enables the integration of a branched network of small partners and suppliers
• Globalization and the integration of geographic dispersed organizations
- Flexibility
• Minimizes system change on the business
• Simplifies finding and switching to new partners and services.
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Frequently Asked Questions (cont.)
What is the best implementation strategy?
- Step-by-step approach
- Start with the “Edge” of the enterprise and work inward
• Supply Chain Integration
• Connecting with external partners, customers and suppliers.
• Implement functionality with the most payoff first
- Incorporate additional functionalities as returns are realized.
- ie. IBM’s SOMA (Services Oriented Modeling Architecture) – reference architecture that simplifies the alignment of
business processes to Web Services
What value do I get to be a leader instead of follower?
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Gain competitive advantages earlier on
Establish exclusive and/or strategic partnerships
Improve customer loyalty by enhancing customer experience
Services implemented can become revenue generating; “rent” to other companies.
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