2.5. Case Studies
2.5.1. Overview
This section introduces a few case studies of current Web Services implementations. They cover examples from the service industry (Trans-Canada Pipeline, Dollar Rent-A-Car) and healthcare management (Hewitt Associates).
Apart from these case studies, there are also some early success stories from the financial services industry. Merrill Lynch (U.S.) aggregates customer account information and risk profile in real-time from multiple systems and countries for wealth management. CIBC (Canada) develops SOAP calls to wrap payment messages and banking services for their Tandem and IBM mainframe legacy systems. At the SunGard User Conference 2001, OM and SunGard shared experiences in interoperating two software products ...
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