Mobile Service Web

Mobile Service Web

1. Supply Chain Management (SCM)

   • synchronize the requirements of the customer with all the participants of the supply chain process
   • The relevant key for SCM is the process communication
     • it requires multiple implication of all the internal or external actors
   • consists on the integration of companies’ processes according the exchanges between the suppliers, the customers and the company. It includes, fundamentally, the purchasing, production and distribution processes
     • One major advantage of mobile phone communication in industry business is that data can be transmitted on real-time virtually worldwide
       • the development of mobile services for intra-organizational use is still rare and slow
     • the works proposed in mobile web service in SCM seems to be still in its infancy
       • the development of mobile web services for intra-organizational use is still slow

2. anytime and anywhere

3. provides mechanisms to simplify data exchange by internet regardless of their implementation platforms

   • supporting different types of devices and different operating systems

4. developers can discover and combine specific functionality offered by third-parties instead of developing them.

   • mobile web service is becoming the suitable technology to provide and consume service in the mobile environment.
     • It allows users to invoke and consume web service in their mobile phone and get desired information anytime and anywhere
       • Several criteria characterize any solution of the mobile web services such as scalability, availability, reliability, ubiquity, security, ease of use and immediacy

5. Current mobile Web service architectures are basically adapted to the traditional Web service approach by applying SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) Principles

   • a variety of mobile web service architectures were proposed by researchers regarding the Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) such as “proxy-based” or “Peer To Peer” or “Asymmetric”
     • Based on the generic mobile web service architecture, there are two ways to consume web service in this architecture.
       • The first one is Mobile web clients that are hosted on the server application, and can be consumed on the server directly
       • The second one is mobile local client where the application is running on mobile devices by connecting to server using wireless or local area.
     • the mobile web service can be classified in two categories: target users (consumers vs. business) and network connection (disconnected vs. connected).