Web Services such as SOAP take center stage when it comes to advancing the Internet as an infrastructure for cross-company applications or as a solution for integrating internal applications (Enterprise Application Integration – EAI). Web Services make it possible to implement both closed applications as well as services available worldwide. These can be either accessed directly by the user or integrated into new systems. Thus they provide the technical basis for the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), in which applications can be created potentially from services available worldwide.

In COI-BusinessFlow 4X, the SOAP interface is used more and more for the integration with other products and as an communication protocol of the internal system components. This interface is gaining increasing importance as a future-proof communication center between internal and external processes. The topic of SOAP, respectively Web Services, as a basis for Service Oriented Architectures will become more important in the ECM field.

The new SOAP server is a strategic development of COI for both existing and new customers who have chosen – or will choose – the COI-BusinessFlow 4X product line.

The adoption of the SOAP protocol reduces development times and improves the solution's serviceability. Today, functions such as e-mail-archiving for Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, or Lotus Notes as well as connection to ERP systems, for example Navision, are incorporated via SOAP. As the SOAP interface can be easily and quickly expanded, our customers can continue to react flexibly to new technical requirements in the future.

Interested in our new SOAP server or COI-BusinessFlow in general? Then please contact us.