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What
are Web Services?
A Web service is simply a way for a business to exchange information
over a network with another business without needing to have any prior
knowledge about how their network operations work. Web Services are
extremely easy to implement, since they are not considered a programming
language, it does not matter what language your applications are written
in. As Open standard (XML, SOAP) based
applications,
RCaster Web Services can be implemented by any application,
system, or language which can exchange an XML message. Web
services are the new standard for communication in the computer world,
recognized by CEOs, Marketing Directors, and CIOs everywhere around the
world.Web Services also
refer to technology that's provided to a consumer or business over the
Internet, otherwise known as Software as Service. Software companies
that sell Software as a Service, or provide Software on Demand services,
typically, sell
software to its customers as a monthly, pay-as-you-go service, rather
than sending disks and installation instructions.
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Web Services connect new capabilities to any part of your
company, using any programming language, or any operating system.
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Web Services can be integrated in hours or days compared to
months using conventional implementation methods.
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Web Services eradicates the need for
maintaining extra hardware and software.
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Web Services negates the need to learn other
enterprise's IT
Infrastructures.
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Web Services are accessible anywhere in the world
with an internet
connection.
How do I use Web Services?
Go ahead and ask yourself where Web Services could benefit your
business. Will automated SMS marketing alert campaigns help reach your
customer faster and with greater open rates? Will
automatic voice reminder phone calls help customer retention? If we
standardize all of our customer data, will my company
save money on postage and returned mail? 'Web Services' are very
attractive to IT departments because they are so easy to implement into existing
applications. Make sure your IT department or your IT outsourcing company
is aware
that there is a great value to using ReminderConnection Web Services.
How can Web Services help me?
You can standardize, cleanse or verify
your Mailing Address database at Point-of-Entry or at all at one time
using a Address Verification Web service.
You can set up automatic Doctor Appointment Reminders in your Hospital
CRM Application using a Notification Web service.
Who uses Web Services?
Any entity that desires to exchange data between systems without having
to invest substantial funds to standardize their system or engineer
interfaces with multiple systems should use Web Services. Although
big companies like Google, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo,
HP, Dell, IBM and thousands more use Web Services every day, the
equalizing benefits of Web Services may have a much more profound effect
for smaller companies. The
following companies show examples on how Web Services are currently
being utilized.
What does Web 2.0 mean and what can it do for your company?
ARTICLE >
The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international
non-profit organization leading the development of standards for geospatial and
location based Web Services.
Web Services play a key role in their work. Watch this video to
see how:
VIDEO >
Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (ARTICLE)
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