Are web services the answer to integrating mobile devices into corporate systems?

摘要

A growing problem facing IT managers is how to integrate wireless applications and the wide variety of mobile devices into corporate systems. Web services technology could provide a way of doing this without blowing the IT budget on complex and costly integration projects. Microsoft and Vodafone are working together on mobile web services that would enable developers and users to take advantage of wireless applications. In a keynote presentation at the ITU Telecom World show last autumn, Bill Gates and Vodafone chief executive Ian Maxwell, outlined an initiative for defining technology specifications to allow developers to exploit mobile web services using standards-based tools and techniques.