"Credit Reporting" Web Service

Brief description


Introduction
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"Credit Reporting" web service is a software which enables to perform business
related operations programmatically through Internet.


Business Operations
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The service has necessary operations for providing Credit Reporting business
activity over Internet, these operations are:

- searchByNameAndAddress
- searchByIdentifier
- getCompanyDetails
- placeOrder
- getOrderStatus
- getAllCompletedOrders
- getCompanyReport

Using these operations, remote client software can make searching a company by its
name and address or by some of its legal identifiers, get detailed information on
the found company (including online report availability), get available report online
or place new order to refresh company report. Orders can be checked for their current
status and applied reports can be retrieved. So, complete cycle of getting credit
reports online is provided for Consumers.

Address of the web service entry point is:
https://online.igkservice.lv/WebServices/CreditReports

Detailed technical description of the service can be found in WSDL:
https://online.igkservice.lv/WebServices/CreditReports?WSDL

Xml-to-html transformation is located here:
https://online.igkservice.lv/xsl/cr/credit_report.xsl



Internet Standards
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The service was built on standards like SOAP, XML, HTTP, and SSL which have been
accepted for inter-program communications over Internet.

All operations manipulate with requests and responses which are xml-documents with
pre-defined structure.

Internet traffic is encrypted and protected by secure https protocol.

The WebService interface is platform-independent and widely accepted. This allows
to establish the program relation between any sites.
The client software can be built-in into specific Consumer programs thus making
communication with remote server transparent for the end-user local interface.

Due to its standard-based architecture the service can be easily extended with new
operations as well as has clear scalability features.


Resume
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The "Credit Reporting" web service is a good basis for building automated B2B
communications.
Based on accepted standards, the service is expected to keep its actuality for a
long time.


IGK Service
Riga, Latvia