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June 2002
Volume 18 • Number 6
 
Inside TAARReport

Web Services  *
If you think Web services are just another technology fad, think again. Kevin Kelly believes that they hold the key to the future of the Internet.

Editorial
At long last, the TAARReport Web site has a new look – check it out!

Connections  *
What are you doing to build your image? For that matter, what image are you trying to build?

Guest Opinion
Do comparative rating vendors have a future in spite of the emergence of Web rating, the challenges of credit scoring, and the introduction of Transformation Station?

Review  *
nuServe, a Web-based risk management service, takes checklists and questionnaires to a new level.

Agency Solutions  *
In this new TAARReport column, Thousand Island Agency in Clayton, NY, explains how they use Outlook e-mail to share information across the agency.

Work.Flow  *
Make sure your service providers are complying with the workflows you have established.

Bits&Bytes
• Transfer Large Files with Ease
• Various Groups to Market EbixASP
• AgentSecure Expands Coverage Options

Page from the Past
Kevin Kelly: Hooked on Technology



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Web Services … Who Cares?

(You Should…They Are the Key to SEMCI)

by Kevin S. Kelly

Hey! Wait a minute, Kevin! Didn’t you once call SEMCI "A techno-political campaign slogan that had long since run its course…" and didn’t you start all-out war among those using SEMCI as a marketing hook? What gives?

stick by my position. I personally spent a good deal of time working with some great people from ACORD, promoting and teaching the concepts behind the vision that was SEMCI. I learned a great deal about insurance and the issues surrounding SEMCI by those who coined the very term. I feel that its overuse as a phrase for marketing products to the audience we were educating has been overdone and betrays its position as an industry goal and vision. However, I raise it as a topic, because the technology that delivers on the promise of SEMCI is finally here. That technology is Web services.

Everyone is talking about them. Countless articles are written about them (including this one). And you’re trying to determine why you should care. "Won’t this ‘go’ the way every technology ‘goes’?" you ask. "Won’t there be a few years of wrestling over the concepts, harming whatever good can come of them? Won’t we be onto something else next year?" That’s not likely. Web services are perhaps more important than the Web was at the outset of the commercialization of the Internet. At Microsoft, we believe they are foundational to what the Internet will become.

The concept is simple, with profound implications for software development (like agency management or policy administration syst...

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