1. Microsoft.NET; A vision for the next generation of XML Web Services. Steven Adler Product Manager Microsoft EMEA

2. 2 Evolution of the Internet HTML Web browser TCP/IPARPANET ASCII FTP, Telnet XML Web Services Presence Transactions Business  TCP/IP plumbing  FTP sites - Downloads  Web Sites - Publishing  Web Sites - Transactions  Web Sites - Web Markets  Web Services - Business

3. 3 Company A Consumers, Partners MobileEmployees Company B Customers Partners Suppliers Consumers, Partners MobileEmployees The Virtual Enterprise

4. 4 Web Service Opportunities  Consumer Services  Reinventing e-Business  Microsoft.NET My Services  Business to Business System to System Integration  Business Services  B2B Exchanges, Web markets  Inter-Enterprise Integration (SCM)  Integration with the Enterprise  Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)  Infrastructure as Application Services

5. 5 What Is An XML Web Service?  Evolution of applications and Web sites  Accessible by other computers, not just people  Transform into reusable components  Can publish and/or consume Web services  Secure interactions across trust boundaries  New integration methodology  Uses XML interactions between systems  Internet-native, based on open set of standards  Works with any operating system, programming language or network  Can expose existing code as Web service  Different systems can actually talk

6. 6 XML Web Services Foundation Simple, Open, Broad Industry Support Internet Ubiquitous Communications: XML Universal Data Format: SOAP Service Interactions: UDDI Publish, Find, Use Services:

7. 7 Microsoft.NET The Platform for XML Web Services

8. 8.NET Clients New Breed of Smart Clients  XML, service-aware  Work well alone or with others

9. 9.NET Building Block Services  Microsoft Passport  Authentication service offers single sign-on capability for any Web site  Microsoft®.NET My Services  Set of user-centric, XML Web services  Enables users to control their “personal networks” for more consistent experience  New way for businesses to reach customers, with customers’ permission  Open Access model allows any application, device or service to inter-operate

10. 10.NET Development .NET Framework  Native XML Web services platform  Deliver services via ASP.NET  High Performance*  Multi-language development, integration  Over 20 programming languages available  Maximize developer skills  Exploit existing code  Visual Studio.NET  Next release of world’s most popular tools  High productivity development environment  Tap world’s deepest developer talent pool Source: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/compare/nileperf.aspx

11. 11.NET Enterprise Servers  Integrated suite for running, managing, orchestrating Web services and apps  Enterprise reliability and scalability for today’s most demanding solutions  Enables the next generation of business applications and services  Deep XML support for integration within and across organizations  Supports scale out for performance, availability, economics

12. 12 Who would have believed… Replacing the mainframe ! Sabre Holdings Corp. yesterday said it will shed its decades-old legacy system over the next few years…. Fort Worth, Texas-based Sabre is moving off an IBM transaction-processing mainframe reservation system that has been the airline standard since the 1950s. In its place, Sabre will create an open system based on more modern programming languages like C++, Java and SQL. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO63398,00.html

13. 13 Windows Server Scalability Windows- and Intel-Based Unisys ES7000 Achieves No. 1 Performance of All Servers Tested in SAP Standard Application Benchmark Equipped with 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon 32-bit processors, the Unisys ES7000 supported 24,000 concurrent SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD) users. Source: http://www.unisys.com/news/releases/2001/oct/10228070.asp http://www.sap.com/benchmark/HTML/SD_3_tier_4x.htm

14. 14 Summary  Fundamental shift: distributed computing for the Internet  XML Web services provide open, Internet-native integration mechanism  Microsoft.NET delivers complete solution for XML Web services