Web Services and Web Mapping

emapsite is a location intelligence (geo)web services powerhouse. Our belief is that our early adoption of web services technology reduces integration complexity for ourselves and prospective partners and clients, enabling us to establish stronger and faster relationships with those customers and partners. This in turn means fast turnaround time for services and reduced time to market for products for our customers.

Web Services technology, and specifically location related web services technology, allows customers to leverage their existing information databases and IT applications.  In the case of geospatial web services this typically occurs by embedding external web services within the existing IT architecture. However, emapsite’s expertise across the web services space includes helping clients to move business processes to the “edge”, making them accessible beyond their usual space, and enabling emapsite and third parties to integrate more swiftly and seamlessly with the required processes and deliver business value.

emapsite subscribes to the principles of a service oriented architecture paradigm in which all processes are “packaged” as “services” and the underpinning IT infrastructure allows different applications to exchange data and “participate” in business processes without being close-coupled to that architecture or those processes.  Such a loosely coupled, decomposed model demands the creation of functionality as discrete elements which can be distributed and re-used according to need across whatever network requires them. Geographic web services delivered according to these principles can be architected into other applications.  emapsite uses WSDL, SOAP and XML metadata to ensure that our web services can be used effectively over standard internet protocols, independent from platform and programming language.