Factiva Enhances its Web Service API; Developers Can Deploy Content Applications More Quickly and Cost-Effectively Using the Factiva Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2003 Factiva(TM), a Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance and Reuters Company, today announced the release of enhanced features to its market-leading Web Service 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. ), enabling developers to take advantage of automated programming tools to develop and deploy new content applications more quickly and cost-effectively. Factiva Developer's Kit, offering a second-generation XML-based application-programming interface (API), provides developers with flexible tools to easily integrate new content into business applications, such as intranets, portals and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems, delivering knowledge to the point of decision within a user's workflow. This reduces the time that end users spend looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. information, allowing them to focus on their specific tasks, and improves decision making. This new release includes new Factiva Developer's Kit transactions that provide developers with access to additional content and functionality in the Factiva Platform. The addition of Web Services Description Language “WSDL” redirects here. For other uses, see WSDL (disambiguation). The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dəl' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. (WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. ), a language used for standardizing the description of 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. , allows developers to use widely available Web Service tools to add a high level of automation to the production of programming objects. This increases the speed of application development and deployment. The latest version of Factiva Developer's Kit also makes the 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. transactions much more intuitive for developers. "Factiva Developer's Kit is specifically unique in that it enables administrators to create integrated 'news pages,' including editorial comments, flags, and internal links to content, on the company's intranet, using their own corporate look-and-feel," said Aviv Siegel, Chief Technology Officer, AtHoc, Inc. "With the new set of API's, second-generation XML programming environment, and automated tools in the Factiva Developer's Kit, customers can quickly build new applications at a reduced cost as well as integrate complementary partner software that maximizes return on their IT investment. In our case, the FDK FDK Frederick, MD (airport code) FDK From Data to Knowledge (University of Helsinki) FDK Function Display Key FDK Frequency Difference Keying FDK Frame Developer'S Kit FDK Federated Simulations Development Kit allows a company to easily integrate content with our notifications software to deliver personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. content updates direct to user's desktops, driving increased usage of both content and the intranet." The Factiva Developer's Kit is built on Factiva's end-to-end XML product platform, launched two years ago to support a sophisticated Factiva product portfolio. Since its release, the Factiva Platform has undergone continual development and refinement to deliver market-leading performance. Technology leaders such as Microsoft have chosen to partner with Factiva because the Web Services-enabled platform allows flexibly and rapidly develop applications. "Factiva Workflow products, such as the Factiva Developer's Kit, allow customers to streamline the process of having relevant business information integrated in the applications their information workers need every day.," said Clare Hart, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Factiva. "The release of the Factiva Platform two years ago demonstrated our foresight in market development, and our efforts to provide our customers with leading-edge technology." The enhanced version of the Factiva Developer's Kit will be commercially available later this month. For more information, please visit www.factiva.com/developerskit. About Factiva Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides world-class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva's products and services help companies integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence Organizational intelligence (OI) is the capability of an organization to comprehend and conclude knowledge relevant to its business purpose. OI can be seen as the business oriented extension to knowledge management (KM), as it is the application of KM concepts to a business and leverage external and internal content within the knowledge management function. Factiva's content management and integration services are used by leading organizations around the world. Built on industry standards and open architecture, Factiva products deliver flexible, extensible, customizable solutions to enable easy integration and use in the enterprise. Editorial and technical consulting, taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, application, integration expertise and e-learning programs reflect Factiva's innovative approach to delivering solutions beyond the content. Factiva is one of KM World Magazine's "Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management" and part of EContent Magazine's "Top 100 content companies to watch." The Software & Information Industry Association recognized Factiva as the 2003 Codie Awards winner in the Best Online Business News or Information Service and Best Online Professional Financial Information Service categories. 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