The EXTOL Web Services Integration Option (EBW) adds optional web service integration capabilities to the EXTOL Data Integrator products (and is an integrated feature of EXTOL Business Integrator). With EBW, you can create, deploy, manage, and maintain web service applications, with unmatched speed, flexibility, and productivity. Unlike other, more limited integration solutions, EBW:

• Creates both SOAP and REST consumers and providers, including attachment and SSL support, without programming
• Supports a wide range of standard and non-standard web service implementations
• Integrates with the EXTOL Data Integrators for process automation and document transformation support
• Includes a high-level modeling suite that simplifies and speeds the creation and maintenance of web service applications
• Minimizes the need for web services expertise

EBW enables you to deliver web service consumers and providers that can connect and integrate your business processes, applications, and data with external service providers and internal web service-capable systems. The resulting applications can be deployed on your choice of supported platforms, including multiple versions of Windows, Linux, and IBM i OS (i5/OS).

Capabilities: With EXTOL Web Services Integration Option, you can:

• Install in minutes and produce custom web service integration processes in minutes or hours, without coding
• Integrate with external partners and service providers for on-demand pricing, availability, status, sales, and other information
• Integrate with Software-as-a-Services (SaaS) applications
• Integrate with online exchanges
• Provision services for near real-time web- and telephone-based applications
• Dispatch MRO services through online service providers
• Track orders and shipment status with suppliers, 3PLs, and carriers
• Get or provide real-time inventory information in support of VMI and other collaborative processes
• Automate responses to routine pricing requests, load tenders, and other revenue-dependent inquiries
• Verify addresses, credit scores, and other customer data
• Integrate with web-enabled commercial and in-house applications
• Expose enterprise resources safely to external consumers by wrapping applications, data, and other web services
• Produce and consume orders, invoices, shipment notices, and virtually any other type of business document
• Rapidly create or extend web service integration applications by reusing existing integration components
• Choose from multiple supported deployment platforms, with identical capabilities on all platforms