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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / OCTOBER 13, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 41
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Systems/Enterprise:
SINGAPORE TO LEAD IN SETTING
GLOBAL WEB SERVICES STANDARDS
By 2004, Web Services companies around the world will benefit from an
international Web Services standards created by Singapore. Singapore is the
first Asian country to partner with OASIS, an international standards
consortium, to lead in creating an international Web Services standard. For a
start, the standards work will be done by a 15-member body called the "OASIS
Framework for Web Services Implementation (FWSI) Technical Committee."
The founding members of the OASIS FWSI Technical Committee comprises
co-chairs, IDA and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology
(SIMTech), a secretariat, the Information Technology Standards Committee
(iTSC), as well as six local companies, Crimson Logic, Ecquaria, EG
Innovations, ESS Software, ReadiMinds and Singapore Computer Systems. They
will be joined by three MNCs, Sun Microsystems, NEC and Yellow Dragon, two
international e-business consortia, RosettaNet and CommerceNet, and a research
institution, the Centre for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CEDID) at
the University of Hong Kong.
"We are very pleased that the OASIS FWSI Technical Committee is being
launched
in Singapore," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS during a visit
here. "We value IDA's foresight and initiative in identifying critical
business application issues. The work of the OASIS FWSI TC will help to enable
Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures to be more rapidly implemented
in eCommerce applications around the world," he added.
"Singapore's leadership in helping to set global standards in Web Services
represents the coming-of-age of the local infocomm industry. By collaborating
with OASIS on standards development, local Web Services companies can gain
from knowledge exchange with MNCs and other global companies. This will give
them a competitive edge in the global Web Services market," said Mrs. Ching
Yee TAN, chief executive officer at IDA.
The new standard will help companies accelerate Web Services implementation
and adoption while generating revenue growth. From working in the OASIS FWSI
Technical Committee, the six local companies can raise the international
profiles of their products and services and through this, aim to generate as
much as S$36m ($20.86) in revenue over the next two years.
To kick-start the standards work, OASIS has issued a Call-for-Participation
to
its more than 600 global member companies and individuals to join IDA and
others, in the OASIS FWSI Technical Committee. The broad-based participation
ensures that the standard, when completed by September 2004, is accepted and
implemented by the global electronic commerce industry. Singapore aims to
increase business adoption of Web services from 8 to 20 percent over the next
three years under the WEAVE (Web Services Add Value to Enterprises) program
launched by IDA in May 2003 to spur Web Services developments in
Singapore.
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