Encoding/Decoding Web Service: Service Consumer

We are at the beginning of "services" era; web services.

Software will represent soon a "service" and enterprise applications will be based on a group of provided services, organized as needed. Software Applications are already web oriented.
From this point to the next is a small step: software companies providing web services instead of fully functional applications, providing small pieces of "services" that will allow others to put the pieces together fast and build something to fit their needs in a much faster manner and with better quality on the final result. Something like custom software components are these days, but much more than that.

Imagine building an enterprise system for a corporation when you already have a multitude of services to chose from, you just have to organize them right, to meet a specific need.
It is a win-win-win situation: the "service" provider, an IT company will sell that service as a "product", the "service" user, another (or the same) IT company, will have an easyer job to build a customized project for The Client and The Client will probable have something he needs much faster than he has today. I didn't think about the costs of it, though...

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