Utilising the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration registry to provide business performance and quality of service data for web

Abstract

Web services can be defined as 'a family of interrelated standards that work together to provide a simple way to allow program functionality in different languages and on different platforms to interoperate' (Mattern and Woods, 2006, p. 13). Interoperability is therefore the key to the technology as it can provide an organisation with the ability to communicate and perform business tasks with other business partners regardless of language or platform.