Overview of the Product

nCode's Web Services has been developed to meet the demands of today's marketplace for distributed services. This powerful and flexible tool allows your organization to access the power of nCode online in a simple, easy-to-use, standards-based interface.


Who Needs nCode Web Services:

Business to Consumer:
Anyone who wants to build a distributed, web-based application using standards based web application protocols giving users the capability to do customer self-service.

Business to Business:
Anyone who is looking for a more effective and efficient way of doing EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) or e-commerce.


Features:

• SERP Certified by Canada Post
  
  
• Allows you to access all of the power of nCode through a web services interface
  
  
• Gives you a simpler interface; all the power in a small set of requests and responses optimized for distributed systems.
  
  
  

Technical Highlights:

• Internet, extranet, or intranet based
  
  
• 15 Web Service requests versus 240 customized APIs without any loss of functionality
  
  
• Windows or UNIX server platforms
  
  
• Utilizes the powerful nCode engine
  
  
• Comes with all of the WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
  
  
• Allows your programs and nCode to communicate in the language of web services.
  
  
• Secure Distributed Access
  
  
• Performance: Interfaces optimized to minimize the number of roundtrips. Efficient use of bandwidth
  
  
  

Why Web Services is Your Choice:

• Easily adaptable to acting as an intranet-based postal address processing system serving multiple applications within an enterprise.
  
  
• Simple to use and fast, easy implementation
  
  
• Cost effective
  
  
• Allows you to build a distributed system using standards-based technology that's easy to secure
  

  		Gives you the security afforded by web services
  		Standards-based
  		Implement distributed applications with ease