JUPITERMEDIA'S JUPITER RESEARCH DIVISION REPORTS THAT PERVASIVE WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGY WILL NOT LEAD TO DIRECT REVENUE STREAMS FOR MOST VENDORS

Jupiter Research's recently released report, titled "Web Services: Gauging the Impact on Business Alignment with IT," states that although Web services technology will not reach full maturity for another three to five years, there is already a near universal experimentation and exploration of it today. Executives have chosen to ignore security concerns and the relative immaturity of the technology. "The adoption of Web services technology is very broad but not yet very deep," said David Schatsky, Vice President and Research Director at Jupiter Research. "While everyone is piloting something, a dramatic transformation of enterprise computing is still at least a couple of years away."

Web Services to have Complex Impact on Business and IT Relationships
According to the report, Web services have the potential to significantly strain the relationship between business executives and IT departments. Contrary to many vocal advocates of Web services technology, who paint a portrait of the technology liberating business executives from their dependency on IT organizations, enabling them to building new Web services-based applications on the fly, Jupiter Research envisions a quite different future.

"Ironically, Web services technology could shift IT decisions and power to central IT groups and away from technology groups aligned with internal business units," said Schatsky. "This could create friction between business-unit-aligned IT groups accustomed to developing and deploying applications without central IT oversight."

Web Services Market is a Fantasy
Jupiter Research reports that Web services technologies will become pervasive over time, permeating all levels of an enterprise's software stack, from infrastructure and tools to enterprise and desktop applications, but they will provide little in the way of distinct revenue streams to most vendors with the exception of a few niche providers of Web services technology. In addition, Jupiter Research predicts that the term "Web services" will become obsolete as it loses its explanatory power.

The complete findings of this report are immediately available to Jupiter Research clients online. Other companies interested in purchasing the report can call toll-free 1-877-464-6627 or visit www.jupiterresearch.com.

Jupiter Research Web Services Report Methodology
The core of Jupiter Research's products is the perspective and opinion of its research professionals. Jupiter Research analysts are immersed in the industries they cover through ongoing contact with corporate and technology leaders, daily study of trends and events in the online world, and their collective professional experience. Individual analyst perspectives are filtered through rigorous collective debate and deliberation, producing research that reflects the combined sensibilities of Jupiter Research's entire team. Analyst perspectives are enhanced and refined through Jupiter-designed market research. Specialists with Jupiter Research's Data Research Group assist analysts in the technical development of these tools, such as survey design, sample building, data weighting and data analysis.

About Jupitermedia Corporation
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