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Web Services Overview

Overview
	Kognitiv Loyalty Web Services allow our clients and their vendors to integrate their own business solutions with the data and functionality of our platform. The Kognitiv Loyalty WS provides a rich interface that makes it extremely easy for developers to build highly effective websites and applications. The WS has an open Application Programming Interface (API) that exposes a large set of methods for developers to use in building their solutions. The API is implemented as a series of collections that expose methods related to a particular class of business objects. For instance, functions related to managing loyalty member information are found in the Member collection. Each collection has its own Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file, which describe the methods associated with that business object.

What Is A Web Service ?
	This document assumes that you are familiar with using your computer (the client) to request that some other computer (the server's) perform some task and respond over the Internet. The work performed server is called a service. The service might be returning a map location, or, in the case of SBLP-WS returning information about loyalty members. A web service is any piece of software that uses REST and/or a standardized XML messaging system like SOAP to exchange data between applications or systems. The data is exchanged between systems via standard network protocols, such as HTTP or HTTPS. Software applications written in various programming languages and running on various platforms can use web services transparently to exchange data over computer networks, like the Internet, because the WSDL provides a standard definition of the data that is exchanged.


Reference
link:	Web Services Map
link:	SBLP Security Token Information