Tech Glossary
What is Web Services?
Web services are a way to communicate between different systems in a standardized way. This means that you can use different systems and different technologies to communicate with each other. Web services are often used to integrate different systems, for example a company's internal system with a supplier's system. In this way, you can easily exchange data between different systems without having to create your own integration. There are two main ways to use web services, SOAP and REST. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol used to send messages between different systems. REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architecture for web services that uses HTTP to send data between different systems. Web services are a very useful tool for integrating different systems. It makes it possible to easily exchange data between different systems without having to create your own integration.