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Listen to Lori MacVittie's Reality Check, "What Can Web Services Do for You," complete with accompanying PowerPoint Presentation.

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Networld+Interop conference sessions are available for purchase in audiocassette and audio CD formats as well as MP3 CD-ROM with available powerpoint presentations.
  1. What Web Services Can Do For You
  2. Meet Lori MacVittie
  3. What are Web Services
  4. Core Standards
  5. The SOAP Stack
  6. What can Web Services do?
  7. Business Agility
  8. Reusability
  9. Legacy Reuse
  10. Portals
  11. Enterprise Application Integration
  12. Reduction in Costs
  13. Web Services: B2B
  14. What to Watch For
  15. Issues with Web Services
  16. What to do: Everyone: Pilots, Enterprise-wide
  17. What to do: Admins:Traffic, Security
  18. What to do: Admins: Horsepower, Load Balancing, Auditing

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