Monday, April 10, 2006

What is Factiva?

I have mentioned to many of you that I work for Factiva. If you would like to know a little bit more about what exactly Factiva does then click the link below. The description from Wikipedia is close to accurate. The slight difference is we no longer partner with IBM on the Web Fountain project. Also the Yahoo partnership has grown. If you are a customer of Factiva you can do a search on the Yahoo search engine and retrieve results from Yahoo and Factiva. The results you get are considered premium content. This is only the beginning as eventually we will intergrate with other partners. The key to integrating with web partners is using a technology called web services. Web services is used for applications written in various programming languages and running on various platforms to exchange data over computer networks like the Internet. Clear as mud?

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