EasyLink Introduces Web Services Integration Tools.PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- EasyLink Services Corporation, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : EASY) --Next-generation Application Programming Interface (API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. ) Gives Corporate Customers, Independent Software Developers and Solutions Providers Convenient Access to EasyLink's Transaction Management Services EasyLink Services Corporation, (NASDAQ: EASY), a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises and their customers, today announced the introduction of its next generation integration tools. The tools offer an application programming interface (API) incorporating the latest standards for Internet-based application integration. These standards, generally referred to as Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , use Simple Object Access Protocol (protocol) Simple Object Access Protocol - (SOAP) A minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML over HTTP. DevelopMentor, Microsoft Corporation, and UserLand Software submitted SOAP to the IETF as an internal draft in December 1999. Latest version: SOAP 1. (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ) and have emerged as a favored approach among corporations, independent software developers, and solution providers building communications- and transaction-oriented applications. Web Services are endorsed by major software companies including Microsoft and IBM Many people are too new to the computer industry to remember that IBM once occupied the lofty position that Microsoft currently enjoys. Today, it's a Microsoft versus The Rest of the World computer industry. Yesterday, it was IBM versus everybody else. . The goal of the EasyLink Web Services API is to increase the overall number of customer and partner applications using EasyLink's services. The EasyLink Web Services API allows external applications to access two key capabilities of EasyLink's global network: sending transactions and tracking message disposition, and provisioning accounts and service features. By following the instructions set forth with the API, developers are able to introduce the capabilities of EasyLink's Production Messaging or Integrated Desktop Messaging Services to a wide range of systems, solutions, and applications that they control. A number of EasyLink's corporate customers have been the first adopters of the EasyLink Web Services API and demonstrate the range of possibilities it enables. One of the world's largest financial institutions is linking Human Resource applications to EasyLink's account provisioning system via the API to ensure all new employees in various departments are automatically set up with Easylink's Email-to-Fax and Fax-to-Email services. A major insurance company is submitting contract and proof of insurance documents from its back-end systems via the API for delivery by EasyLink's network. A secure messaging solutions provider is using the API to fax-enable desktop software for HIPAA-compliant secure message delivery. Gary MacPhee, EasyLink's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and Executive Vice President of Transaction Management Services commented: "The development community has fully embraced open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced including the use of Web Services for application integration. Our introduction of a Web Services API demonstrates EasyLink's commitment to open standards and, perhaps more importantly, our commitment to providing enterprise customers and independent software developers with easy to use programmatic interfaces Same as API. to our services to drive new levels of business process automation." For additional information on EasyLink's Web Services API, visit www.easylink.com/developers. About EasyLink Services Corporation: EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities, and their customers. EasyLink's global network handles over 1 million transactions every business day on behalf of over 60 of the Fortune 100 and thousands of other companies worldwide. We facilitate transactions that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products, and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers, among many others. EasyLink helps companies become more competitive by providing the most secure, efficient, reliable, and flexible means of conducting business electronically. For more information, please visit www.EasyLink.com. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the future events or the future financial results of EasyLink. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . These include the matters set forth in the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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