By Alex Norman and Ricky Brentano

 “So, What the Heck Are Web Services?” ◦ Simple and straightforward ◦ Separates “web services” into two different definitions, for programmers and business people  “The Web at Your Service” ◦ Good examples of new web services  “Online Storage Options” ◦ Gave a good list of different types of online storage  “Five Barriers to Implementing Web Services” ◦ Listed problems, but didn’t explain them as well as we had hoped

 All the articles had valuable knowledge on today's advanced computer technologies and how it's been incorporated in the business aspect. Not only did the articles explain the different web service technologies, it explained how it's being applied to the business economy. Web services has dramatically changed the way people are doing business and more and more businesses are taking advantage of this in terms of sales, competition, strategies, consumers, etc. It connects the public, consumers, and businesses to each other that benefit all.

 I was discouraged with the quality of the readings. Article 1 is seriously out of date... and was too technical to be understandable by the class. #2 was OK given the problem definition you received. #3 was a user manual for a specific product... and #4 -- Was this a sales pitch for a web hosting service? #5 had lots of problems with providing appropriate context. Overall, I doubt that the class would understand what web services are today from this reading list.

 Blue Tie – service ◦ Secure and affordable ◦ Easy for Nancy to control ◦ Good technical support ◦ Lots of extra features not normally found in an service  Data Deposit Box ◦ Ease of use ◦ Security ◦ Good way to make sure all important documents and s are saved regularly

 A little bit too broad, instead of giving us a list of product vendors, it would have been nice to have a few more actual web service recommendations

 Very informative, gave us insight to web service providers I have never heard about. They linked the presentation to the consulting company and it worked. They did a good job:)  That pretty much sums them all up

 The information will help us to build a stronger internal network  Good initial ideas for us to build off of