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'''Web data services''' is a class of [[data]], information, [[RSS]] feeds and content from the [[world wide web]], [[web applications]] and online business sources. Web data services<ref>InfoWorld (June 22, 2009), [http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/kapow-focuses-web-data-services-600 Kapow Focuses on Web Data Services.]</ref>refers formto a fast[[service-growingoriented additionarchitecture]] (SOA) applied to data sourced from the [[structuredWorld dataWide Web]] and the Internet as a whole. Web data services enables maximal mashup, reuse, and sharing of [[unstructuredstructured data]], such as relational tables, semi-structured information, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, and traditionalunstructured onlineinformation, including [[RSS]] feeds, content from [[web applications]], commercial data from online business sources.
TheIn inputsa Web data services environment, applications may subscribe to and outputsconsume information information, provide and publish information for others to consume, or both. Applications can serve as a consumer/subscriber and/or provider/publisher of Web data services include [[mobile computing]] applications, a [[web portalportals]], [[enterprise portals]], online [[business software]], [[social media]], and [[social networks]] contribute content as web data services.<ref>Reuters (June 23, 2009), [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS113076+23-Jun-2009+PRN20090623 How Data-Driven Enterprise Applications Are Built]</ref>. AsWeb [[service-orienteddata architecture]]services buildsmay insupport usebusiness-to-consumer acrossand business-to-business information-sharing requirements. enterprisesIncreasingly, moreenteprises are including web data services willin emergetheir fromSOA business applicationsimplementations, dataas services,they integrate mashup-style user-driven information sharing into [[business intelligence]] and, [[business processesprocess management]], [[predictive analytics]], [[content management]], and other applications, according to industry analysts.<ref>Cloud Computing (June 23, 2009) [http://danagardner.sys-con.com/node/1012701 Web Data Gains Some Due Respect.]</ref>
To usespeed anddevelopment inter-relateof web data services, enterprises can deploy technologies havethat beenease designeddiscovery, toextraction, speedmovement, thetransformation, findingcleansing, downloadingnormalization, cleaningjoining, consolidation, access, and presentation of disparate information types from diverse internal sources (such as data warehouses and CRM systems) and external sources (such as commercial market data aggregators).<ref>Kapow Technologies [http://kapowtech.com/index.php/products/kapow-web-data-server Web Data Server.]</ref>, and integrating of the content so it can be readily used and presented, either alone or in combinations.<ref>Microsoft Developer Network [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb931106.aspx ADO.NET Data Services.]</ref> Increasingly,Web suchdata contentservices frombuild aon wideindustry-standard varietyprotocols, ofinterfaces, sourcesformats, willand beintegration usedpatterns, tosuch broadenas thethose scopeuse for SOA, powerWeb 2.0, Web-Oriented Architecture, and applicabilityRepresentational ofState Transfer. In addition to operating over the businesspublic intelligenceInternet, [[Web data warehousing]]services andmay trendrun analyticssolely ofwithin manycorporate kinds.intranets, Mostor formsacross ofB2B websupply datachains, servicesor areeven builtspan andhosted deliveredsoftware onas anda viaservice common(SaaS) [[webor standards]]cloud andcomputing protocolsenvironments. <ref>[http://hinchcliffe.org/archive/2008/02/27/16617.aspx What Is WOA? It's The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)]</ref>
The web data services category continues to grown in popularity as organizations increasingly seek to monitor and use data from myriad public and private web sites -- from such news sources as [[CNN]], for example, to social networking sites such as [[Facebook]], as well as from business ecosystem partners, private web applications and across [[supply chains]]. Web data services also comprise certain inputs and outputs from [[web services]] integrations, [[cloud computing]] services, [[software-as-a-service]] applications, and service-oriented and web oriented architecture<ref>[http://hinchcliffe.org/archive/2008/02/27/16617.aspx What Is WOA? It's The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)]</ref> applications. Web data services are also commonly used to expedite the process of migrating content from one [[content management]] system to another.
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