Use case

Weir & Bell Telecom have identified a number of areas in which they can improve and streamline the supply chain management activities by exposing internal services directly to third party suppliers. This will allow partners to integrate with their internal purchasing and supply chain systems directly, reduce costs, and improve the third party experience significantly. The services expose functionality such as submit purchase orders, cancel orders, and view order status amongst others.

The architecture team at Weir & Bell has decided to expose external services using an UDDI registry that they will host privately in their DMZ. The reason for this is that they only want to expose services to selected third party vendors and retain control over who can have visibility into service offerings. By using their own registry as opposed to a global registry (such as uddi.org), Weir & Bell is able to apply strict controls on who is registered to access service details.

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