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Another key area is Web services. By the second half of 2004, 40 percent of Global 2000 enterprises will have unauthorized, undocumented and unmonitored Web services connections that extend beyond their perimeters, according to Gartner. If that doesn't scare you, you haven't been listening: WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) provides a system-independent way for your applications to say, "If you want to talk to me, here's how you have to do it"--human-readable pointers into your internal business process and data--what services you have running, their data formats, even how to access them.
Despite these concerns, the payoffs can be great, not only in better application integration and seamless interactions but in very flexible business processes. In fact, 102 of 191 readers we recently polled said Web services would be of "fundamental importance" in the way software applications are built and deployed at their organizations.
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