OK, so migrating to web services may not magically solve all of your company’s I.T. challenges. But it’s a good start <smile>! In a recent survey to a segment of customers running our RPG-XML Suite software, we asked how these businesses are utilizing web services within their organizations. Here are 30 different responses:
- Sending data to/from eCommerce shopping cart
- Updating inventory
- Sending purchase order data to supplier
- Performing address validation
- Viewing order status
- Order entry
- Order submission
- Customer eligibility verification
- Wage garnishment employee verification
- Displaying health benefit details
- Displaying insurance claim details
- Updating IBM i customer master file from data on external .NET system
- Updating product attribute data
- Displaying and updating pricing
- Mobile quoting application
- Facilitating generation and deployment of email
- Credit card processing
- Generating shipping and packing lists
- Freight quoting
- Sales tax quoting
- Obtaining shipping rate estimates
- Bill of lading generation
- Parcel pickup request generation
- Obtaining shipping transit time duration
- Wireless customer monthly statement generation
- Document management data processing
- Document management workflow control
- Synchronizing CRM application with IBM i data
- Geocoding addresses
- Displaying customer rewards data to kiosks upon ID swipe
Now, are any of the business processes above found within your organization? If so, migrating to a web services-driven environment may be just the ticket for you!
How are you utilizing web services today to create new efficiencies?
(And don’t be that I.T. department in the comic strip above)!