Web services were designed to overcome the obstacles imposed by IT on enterprises. Web services allow industries for collaborative commerce without any barriers.

The Internet is changing the way businesses operate. Organizations are using the web to deliver their goods and services, to find trading partners and to link their existing applications to other applications. Web services are rapidly becoming the enabling technology of today's e-business and e-commerce systems and will soon transform the web into a distributed computation and application framework. There is already a body of experience accumulated to demonstrate the difference between just having an online presence and using the web as a strategic and functional medium in e-business-to-business interaction (B2B) as well as marketplaces.

Web services guarantee business agility. Enterprises use various methods to reach out to their customers and partners, this service enables enterprises to benefit from collaborative synergies of their trading community and to focus on their core business.