Web Services Directory

"Rogue Wave's XML Link allows businesses to create Web Services from back-end resources, delivering components to the Web without restricting businesses or their partners to a specific platform, language or object model."

DoubleHelix use a data component XML definition for integration, called the International Financial Markets Toolkit. For use in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the XML component schema ensure the creation of standardised in-house XML definitions for integration. Definitions are available in most middleware formats, programming class definitions and XML schema.

Features topics such as; administration, B.I., careers, decision making/planning, development, SAP software and web/internet. It also includes SAP-specific search results from an independent and comprehensive SAP-based domain.

Collaxa provides enterprises with a new approach to integrating applications and services into collaborative and transactional business processes. It is based on industry standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, JMS, BTP and ebXML. It relies on an innovative JSP-like abstraction called ScenarioBeans. This combination delivers a high level of operation visibility and process manageability. The benefit of these innovations is that they reduce complexity, skill requirements and total cost of integration.

Flypaper's approach to enterprise collaboration is to create InterAction Web sites which seamlessly centralize business-crucial information from in-house systems. The user interface is the web browser and the technology is Web Services based.

Sonic's core business is messaging and its flagship product is SonicMQ, based on the Java Messaging Service (JMS) specification. SonicXQ builds on this and exposes any application as a service, providing support for HTTP/S, SOAP and WSDL generation for UDDI registries.

Tarviz's eIntegration Suite contains and adapter development tool with over 250 pre-built intelligent adapters, including ERP, CRM, and SCM software from Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, Siebel and Microsoft Great Plains.

Vergil's RAD tool for SAP allows access to business functions in SAP exposed as BAPIs and RFCs and allows business analysts users to model and automatically generate EJB/JSP/Servlet codes for web enabling any SAP backend system. Generate code at the click of a mouse.

StrikeIron is pioneering innovative products and subscription-based online services that provide a new level of ease of use and productivity for the utilization of Web services. The StrikeIron Web Services Business Network™ (WSBizNet™) allows anyone, with minimal experience to quickly locate, understand, and utilize existing Web services for easier and faster access to information, integration with existing applications and assembly of new applications.

BindStudio enables business analysts, process designers and integration engineers to model collaborative business requirements that can then be used to drive Web Services technology solutions for enterprise integration and electronic business-to-business integration.

Induslogic provides EAI solutions based on Web Services technology. Its range of products include Xintegrate Web Services, a complete development and deployment environment for enterprise Web Services; and XSLWiz, a graphical environment for generating XSL scripts.

Vergil’s VRAD-Web Services for SAP, based on Web Services standards such as WSDL, UDDI and works in conjunction with Java Connector Architecture (JCA) version 1.0 specification based adapters. VRAD-Web Services for SAP comes complete with an intuitive web based user interface, seamless connectivity to SAP system via standard interfaces provided by SAP, and uses Vergil’s JCA adapter. It uses underlying Business APIs and RFCs in the SAP R3 system to execute business processes and data and allows a business analyst to visually configure the integration with a few mouse clicks. Once configured, the same can be generated as a ready-to-deploy executable Web Services Interfaces that can be deployed inside private or public UDDI registry managed by the enterprise. VRAD-Web Services for SAP currently supports popular servlet containers like Tomcat and compatible UDDI registries implementation and does not require an application server to deploy these Web Service Interfaces. The VRAD for SAP is available now at a special introductory price of US$5,000, valid until Dec 31, 2002.

XMLSP (XML Server Pages) is a RAD which delivers client side solutions based on standard technologies including XML and Javascript. XMLSP supports both J2EE and .NET platforms. CTi claim the evironment combines the simplicity of HTML with the power of Java.

VOS is based on Web Services standards and comes complete with a Windows GUI based Orchestration Composer with an intuitive user interface that allows business users to compose new business processes using available Web Services, an Orchestration Server which allows deployment and execution of these new business scenarios in a scalable and secure fashion within a J2EE application server environment, and an Orchestration Console which provides the facility to secure, monitor and manage these deployed business scenarios. VOS enables deployment of both synchronous and asynchronous web service flows and supports existing infrastructure such as JMS, MQ and other MoMs through Vergil’s Gateways. VOS supports composition of scenarios with services deployed on multiple platforms, multiple UDDI registries and non UDDI repositories. While the scenarios can be composed with almost no coding, VOS supports integration of custom classes written either in Java or as COM objects that can form part of the business scenario to handle custom logic in the flow.

Adopting an "appliance" approach rather than a software suite for collaborative solutions makes CommerceRoute unique in the Web Services arena. CommerceRoute’s Syncx™ integration appliances empower companies to consolidate critical business systems and information in order to connect with business partners via the Internet using Web Services and e-business standards such as RosettaNet, BizTalk, ebXML and EDI.

KnowNow specialise in integration over the web technologies. Key product is the Web Services Router which manages the routing of events and messages over the internet using standard protocols. A range of gateway adaptors allow integration of existing asynchronous messaging middleware and EAI technologies.

SeeBeyond's expertise is its range of EAI technologies for eBusiness and Application Integration solutions. It has now embraced the use of SOAP within its product offering in order to provide additional web enablement facilities within its product line.

HostBridge is a Patent Pending software product that allows companies to XML-enable their exiting CICS terminal-oriented applications. As a result, you can integrate CICS applications with other XML-based applications - such as web services and B2B integration platforms - quickly and easily. HostBridge does this without using terminal emulation or "screen scraping", and without requiring any changes to your existing CICS applications.

Abilizer Solutions, Inc. delivers a range of software and hosted solutions that enable the rapid, cost-effective and integrated delivery of web services and enterprise information. The core product consists of the Abilizer Web Engine, a 100% Java/J2EE compliant layer which provides a web presentation framework for underlying data and systems. The Abilizer Configurator is an intuitive drag-and-drop application for designing, assembling, deploying and managing web sites and for targeting the delivery of web site content.

Contivo has solutions for both Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects and Trading Exchanges buildouts. Core technology includes Enterprise Integration Modelling, which utilises a universal data model approach to maximise reuse in each new discrete integration project.

webMethods is an early adopter of Web Services technologies to enhance its EAI offering Global Business Visibility. webMethods has made BPM central to its solutions therefore it is no surprise that from its platform users can publish WSDL and and create UDDI entries. Support exists for SOAP.

Primordial is a professional services and products company concentrating on Web Services. In addition to its consulting services Primordial offers the WSBANG - - the Web services broker and network gateway - a Web services proxy that integrates with a corporate LAN and provides caching, monitoring, metering, micropayment tracking, reporting, and security and encryption.

With expertise in BizTalk, Oracle 9i/AS Interconnect and BEA Web Logic, Actional takes a web-service approach to providing system integration without the use of additional middleware. The SoapSwitch Web Services Gateway is aimed at EAI.

eXcelon specialises in collaborative software solutions which provide a single view of data across the enterprise and outside the enterprise. A leading supplier of both XML database and development tools, worthy of consideration for web enablement of existing and new systems. eXcelon also provide educational and training services.

Attunity specialises in the integration and web-enablement of existing legacy systems through their Attunity eBusiness Integration Suite. Compatible with a wide range of legacy technology including applications and data from more than 30 data sources on more than 20 different computing platforms including 0S/390, 0S/400, Tandem, OpenVMS, UNIX and Windows.