Financial Market Data Web Services – Xignite Blog

After almost two years of stealth development, we are launching Splice, the first on-demand Web services mashup platform for serious developers of professional financial websites and applications…you!

Splice takes advantage of Web services standards to create a drag-and-drop Web services development studio for mashing up a set of Web services into a unique service tailored to a specific application need…a splice. We’ve also built a community around it, so developers can share their splices and re-use splices from others to make development even easier. The Splice initial release supports the following:

• Combine many services into a single call.
• Integrate private and 3rd party web services.
• Format a service to exactly fit your application.
• Re-use Splices to power any application.
• Share your services with other developers.

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The idea for Splice initially came from our clients. While our baseline Web services often meet their needs out-of-the-box, some requested that we customize them to better fit their requirements. Common requests included optimizing for performance (lower XML verbosity), reducing the numbers of calls needed to collect multiple data sets, or customizing outputs. Rather than keep doing this on a one-off basis, we decided to empower you to do it yourself.

The best news is that Splice is not only free to try, it is also free to use for existing clients under Standard support or above. You can create and operate one free splice per service under subscription.

Please register and let us know what you think!