How Web services can help your business

Web services is a technology for deploying, and providing access to, business functions over the World Wide Web. Web services make it possible for applications to be integrated more rapidly, easily, and cheaply than ever before.

Web services can help your business by: The key to achieving all these things is a common program-to-program communication model, built on existing and emerging standards such as HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL.

The support that CICS® provides for Web services makes it possible for your existing applications to be deployed in new ways, with the minimum amount of reprogramming.