Adaptive Collaborative Work(ACW) 自适应协同工作 109 of 281 and Software as a Service(202)

The ACW aims to build a new networked
collaborative society, which sensitively captures the humanity of individuals as
well as a whole without restriction of time and location.The benefits of utilizing XML Web services based on the adaptive collaborative
system are as follows (Ohashi, 2003c):
1. It is platform independent, therefore it is usable regardless of the type of
hardware and software.
2. The connection is highly flexible, collaborative, and compatible with other
systems including the legacy system without making any changes to the
system or data.
3. It enables the collaboration between the legacy systems and newly
developed systems.
4. It avoids overlapping investments of the ICT (Internet Communication Technology)utilization and development
by determining the development methods by module.
5. It enables the sharing of the ICT sources.
6. It offers more flexibility in data process and exchange.

 

 the union of the two systems creates a real-time collaborative research

environment by allowing users to share the processes and results of researches between the institutions regardless of their location. The adaptive collaboration is also an autonomous-distributed collaborative work
system with the iDC centralized, layered data-type sharing model, which enables the clients distributed on the network to autonomously provide services to their consumers

 

Software as a Service

 

Web services environment-based computing is likely to evolve rapidly in the hosting realm. ASPs therefore need to identify and partner with infrastructure vendors able to help them fully capitalize on this trend. Web services are rapidly moving to the forefront of major service providers’ strategies for the next phase of Internet-centric computing. Web services began to constitute one of the computing industry’s most important trends during 2002 and potentially provide almost limitless, new service and revenue opportunities. The question thus far has been, “Are ASPs willing and prepared to exploit Web services?”
In the first few years of the 21st century, virtually every major IT infrastructure vendor has identified support for Web services as a strategic priority. These vendors have each determined that a key success factor for their business to go forward seriously depends on its ability to support what could likely become
a flood of Web services components.This prepares the way for Web services to aid the software-as-a-services trend to gain significant market traction and appeal. Very little sense is made of the response from
questions such as “What exactly are Web services?”, “What do Web services do for businesses?”, “How can ASPs benefit from Web services?”.