Web Services Providers

Web Services are a means to quickly integrate applications across multiple platforms, systems and disparate businesses enterprises. Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are gaining their momentum as architectures that enable the Web Services production and consumption. These services, with the help of the appropriate technologies, are already able today to extend well beyond the firewalls of companies. Web Services Providers can take an advantage from Web APIs technologies to offer over the Web data and behaviors locked so far within their legacy enterprise systems. This change can be accomplished without a significant effort or change in infrastructure. With help of Web Services technologies, system-to-system communication and integration is becoming easier and cheaper than ever before.

But it is not enough just to develop good Web Services. The next step is to help potential consumers of services to find this service. These days seekda is already becoming the most comprehensive Web Services search engine in the world that helps consumers to find Web Services they need. Keep in mind that seekda can paralleled to Web Services directories (such as well known UDDI or ebXML registries) and governance systems as they have been defined in SOAs. Our existence on the public Web means that we provide the central point for sharing services, reviews for these services, and other centralized information, having the ability to support scalability, and continuously manage through economies of scale as customers search through all Web Services in one place.

We provide a few key features to facilitate service producers with technology allowing them to reach potential consumers, and the ability to monetize this interaction, including:

• A directory where Web Services can be found, containing a description of services, our monitoring data, information about service providers, technology documentation, etc.
• With our community features we facilitate our visitors to share reviews and other useful information with all users of the seekda portal.
• With our upcoming marketplace we will offer the option to charge for services based either on a perpetual license, or pay-per-click rates.

The rapid growth of worldwide available Web APIs (REST based and Web Services based) is driven to a large extent by the emergence of truly Web-based applications. Using APIs is nothing new; developers are already quite accustomed to assembling their applications from various components with well defined interfaces. However, the advent of Web Services along with the notion of the mashup has changed the way we consider and leverage APIs. Mashups provide techniques allowing quickly assemble composite applications that combine information and behaviors from various service providers. With mashups users of services combine many resources, using standard and well-defined APIs, to quickly create something that can be both new and useful. For example with approaches such as AJAX, Web-based applications can now dynamiclly interact with users. Typically these applications leverage a client/server type of a model, where the front-end application interacts with a user, while the business logic of the application simultaneously communicates with the back-end. The back-end can contain sets of Web APIs which provide information in the context of structure, as well as functional application behavior. With the seekda Web Services search engine your potential consumers find Web APIs defined in the form of Web Services (in the future REST services will also be included in our index), which can then be next used to assemble their applications. To help seekda to get you faster to your potential customers:

• Submit Web Services - Add your Web Services to seekda – just paste your address (URL) into our online form. We will take care of the rest. Our robots will crawl your domain and if suitable, your Web Service(s) will be indexed and added to seekda index.
• Monitor Web Services - Every Web Service is monitored by us continuously 365 days a year. You and your customers get precise statistics about your Web Services uptime for free. To understand how to interpret the data generated for every Web Service by seekda we recommend to read the article about Monitoring the Availability of Web Services in the features section of our blog.
• Update your profile and information regarding your services - let your customers know about your organization and your services. We provide community based features which provide a wiki based style to edit your profile and description related with every services indexed by us.
• Get in Touch!: seekda gets you in touch with your Web Services customers - we provide you an additional marketing channel. Use feedback of the seekda community to improve your Web Services.

The Web of services (extension of Web of pages) is all about how systems communicate with systems, applications with applications, and interfaces with interfaces. While the traditional Web of pages was about content and information as exposed to humans, the Web of services will include core business systems as well. We are quickly moving into the stage where all information systems will have access to any information required, on-demand, in real or near real-time. seekda is a leading company facilitating the development and support for Web of services. We provide you with our search technology as a foundational basis, but the possibilities of using and mashing your services are innumerable. These will be explored by the users who will be using your services and you can only imagine the potential of the Web when millions of services will be provided to millions of their users.