Web Services

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-030243",
  "term": "Web Services",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Web Services refers to the technologies that allow for making connections. Services are what you connect together using Web Services. A service is the endpoint of a connection. Also, a service has some type of underlying computer system that supports the connection offered. The combination of services - internal and external to an organization - make up a service-oriented architecture.\n\n2. A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. They make it easier to conduct work across organizations regardless of the types of operating systems, hardware/software, programming languages, and databases that are being used.",
  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "references": [
    "Terminology Services Glossary",
    "Exchange Network Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/web-services/"
}