Deliver
Information for Partners as Web Services
Extensio Extender for Web Services provides a web service
interface to Extensio Information Services for partners and
partner applications. With Extensio Extender for Web services,
information services containing data from multiple sources
is exposed as a single information object, encapsulated within
standard web service interfaces. Partners and partner applications
can use the Extensio web services to lookup, update and receive
notifications from a variety of enterprise and web sources.
Why Deliver Enterprise
Application Information to Partners?
While your ERP, CRM, SCM, and portal applications provide
valuable information for your enterprise, many of your business
partners cannot interact with the information silos within
the enterprise. Inability to provide information routes to
your enterprise data stores increases process complexity,
time-to-respond and inhibits process changes.
What if your partners could access information from your
data sources within their applications and within their business
processes? What if your partners could avoid dealing with
the pain of writing expensive custom code for integrating
their applications with yours? What if your partners could
use standards based web service interfaces to query and update
application integration?
Extract. Assemble and Deliver. To Partners, with Extensio Web Services
Extensio provides a SOA based information delivery layer
that extracts information elements from data sources, assembles
related information on a single interface, and delivers it,
on-demand, as standard web services. With Extensio Web Services,
partners need not build expensive, brittle and custom application
intergration logic to access your data within their applications.
Partners can weave in information from your data stores within
their applications using standard web service calls, reducing
complexity, embracing change and increasing business flexibility.
Who Benefits from the Extensio Extender
for Services?
With the Extensio Extender for Web Services, business partners
get access to enterprise data with ease. Typical users include:
- Suppliers
that need to interact with Purchase Order Information stored
within your ERP system
- Retailers
that need to incorporate pipeline information from CRM application
into their Sales forecasting processes
- Customers
that need to provide visibility to their team members about
shipment status from your SCM system
Key Features of Extensio Extender
for Web Services
- Supports
SOAP 1.2
- Supports
WSDL 1.1
- Support
for SOAP over HTTPS
- Choice
of single method call for all services or individual service
calls for each information service
Building and Using Extensio Web Services
Customer's IT department
uses the SOA-based Extensio
Information Server
and its browser-based Extensio Studio to extract the required
data elements from
multiple data-sources, assemble and publish
them as
information services
for the Extensio Extender for Web Services. The Extensio Security Manager is used to assign
permissions to users and groups.
Once Extensio Information Services have been provisioned,
partners can read their WSDLs, and access the described web
services rom designated web service end-points.
Once information services have been built for Web Services, the same information services can be delivered on multiple user channels such as Desktop Gadgets, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Outlook, Web Widgets, Partner Applications, and Mobile
devices.
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