 Anne
Thomas Manes is a Research Director with Burton
Group, a research and consulting firm. Anne is a widely recognized
industry expert on Web Services. She is the author of Web Services:
A Manager's Guide. In 2002, NetworkWorld named Anne one of the 50
most powerful people in networking. The previous year she received a
similar honor from Enterprise Systems Journal, who listed her among the
2001 Power 100 IT Leaders. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and
author of numerous articles. She is a member of the editorial board of
Web Services Journal. Anne participates in Web Services standards development
efforts at JCP, W3C, and OASIS. Before joining Burton Group, Anne took
a sabbatical and spent six months writing her book. She formed Bowlight
at that time to host her independent consulting activities. Prior to
that she was the Chief Technology Officer at Systinet, the Web Services
Infrastructure Company. Before joining Systinet, Anne was Director of
Market Innovation at Sun Microsystems, where she pioneered Sun's Web
Services strategies. She also served as a Senior Analyst with Patricia
Seybold Group, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the "Distributed
Computing Monitor" newsletter. Anne developed her expertise working
at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies. Anne
earned a bachelors degree in Economics at Wellesley College. You can
reach Anne via e-mail at atm@bowlight.net. |
If you ask five people to define
Web Services, you'll probably get at least six answers. The simplest and
most basic definition is this: a Web Service is an application that provides
a Web API. A Web API is an application-to-application programming interface
that lets the applications communicate using XML and the Web. The purpose
of a Web API is to enable heterogeneous application integration. Web Services
support any programming language running on any platform.