Executives Guide to Web Services (SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture)

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP), 34, 115

Financial Information Exchange (FIX), 38

financial services industries, 132–135

banking in, 132–134

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in, 133

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), 134

insurance industry in, 134–135

legacy systems in, 133

security in, 134

Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC), 38

finding (see discovery of services)

FinXML Consortium, 38

firewalls, 14, 27

FITS, 150

Flamenco Networks, 199

flexibility of Web services, 7–8, 26, 63, 93–94, 171–174

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 129

Ford, 128

Forrester Research, on Web services, 114–115

fpML, 38

“friction-free enterprise” concept, 92–93

Fujitsu, 55

future of Web services, 207–208