Web Service Basics
All articles here are about Web Services in the most basic understandable form.
Will your company be a leader in 2010 and beyond? It’s not a risk, it’s an opportunity.
What are the characteristics of a 21st century business?
The 21st century company is a flexible entity that values human resources, maximizes efficiency in every turn, and uses proven cutting edge technology to easily adapt to changing models in the business sphere and move forward towards greater profit and a strong reputation in the field in any economy. The 21st century business is info-centric, because information is power only if you use it well.
The tools of Web 2.0 can help your business achieve 21st...
The government knows. It always knows. The Social Security Administration has a whole file dedicated to it. Maybe a little creepy to think about, but be glad this file exists. For one, if you die and someone pretends to be you, it's a lot easier to pin down and prosecute for your children's posterity, so they don't lose their inheritance.
It also conveniently works for you while you're alive, if you run a business. There's a type of criminal out there that focuses purely on this kind of fraud, called "deceased person identity theft." And you could easily be a victim...
CDYNE 411, a directory assistance Web Service, is used by medical practices and hospitals to match patient names, phone numbers, and addresses to reduce medical identity theft. It's a good practice to use to comply with the FTC's Red Flags Rule, as a part of an identity theft prevention plan mandated by the rule.
Reverse phone lookups and Phone Append (a reverse address operation) can match patients at point of entry, as soon as they check in with the front desk for an appointment. It can also be a part of regular checks on an EHR to keep records up to...
Did you know that CDYNE provides inbound phone lines as well as interactive outbound autodialing with the Phone Notify! Web Service?
Need to set up a number for your customers or applicants to call when they receive your alerts? Do it all in one place. Portable, permanently assigned numbers hosted by CDYNE can help you communicate, track, and direct your calls. You can purchase a toll-free number or a standard one, even set yourself up with local caller ID in the areas you call.
Cost? Very affordable: $50 one-time setup fee for up to 5 lines. $100 for unlimited lines. $5 per month to maintain.
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In his October 29th blog entry on ZDNet: Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership, Phil Wainewright explores the truth behind cloud superiority. Here's a basic summary of the two main points:
The Cloud Trumps Single-Company Performance
The cloud operates on a very high standard, maintaining stellar uptime with increased redundancy and protection from outages. A cloud provider will go to great lengths to ensure that it has value over proprietary systems because of the nature of competition in the marketplace - there is more incentive to be the best.
Aggregate Savings Are Key
Cloud computing infrastructure saves money for individual businesses sharing resources...
IT departments are fast becoming the most important element in a company structure, as information takes on the key role in an organization’s ability to function operationally, reach customers, and maintain effective employees.
Keeping this information current and usable, and creating consistent and instantaneous access to data is crucial for companies to remain profitable in the global marketplace. With the speed of change in an environment dominated by technology, IT departments must be proactive in the management of information and business intelligence / data quality, setting up unified systems for maintaining and integrating data so that it is current and available...
We're almost to the point in the business world when reducing our carbon footprint is standard operating procedure. It's not quite mainstream yet, but businesses are taking more steps to go green to lower their impact on the environment, retain more customers, and save money/increase revenue based on less waste.
It can be hard to begin the "greening" process, however. Where do you start? How expensive will it be? Do you have to perform costly construction on your office space or change the way your energy is being used? Not necessarily. All the little steps add up, and even tiny...
Do you have a unified plan for communicating with your customers? With all of the possible channels for staying in touch and marketing your products or services, communication can get fragmented. And inconsistent methods can be costly and time-consuming, and may convey the wrong message to your client base. That’s the last thing you want to do in a tough economy with customer attrition at an all-time high.
CRMs are helpful in keeping information in the same place, but you can use communications and data quality Web Services to help automate your process, making your CCM efficient and potentially revenue generating.
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In June of 2008, Gartner, Inc., released a special report that predicted that cloud computing would be on par with e-business in level of influence over the business world. A little over a year later, we can say definitively that Gartner was right.
In a press release from the research giant last summer, Gartner’s definition of cloud computing was a “style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ using Internet technologies to multiple external customers.” The report claims that this new technology would allow businesses to focus on the actual service being provided rather than...
CDYNE Web Services are perfect for implementing in CRM software solutions. Offer your customers valuable add-ons to help them retain customers and stay in touch with staff.
They can scrub their data as it enters their system – automatically. They can communicate with staff, students, customers, and patients by sending automatic messages straight from the database. You can resell these services or offer them as a complimentary added value to your software or service.
CDYNE Web Services are fast and easy to implement. They – and the data they process – update automatically to make sure your customers always have...
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