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Research Service Scenarios

The Research feature provides a platform for three kinds of third-party research services:

ShowGeneral research services

ShowSubscription research services

ShowCustom research services

Easy configuration

Regardless of whether a research service is built for a more general group of users or a specific group of corporate users, Office 2003 applications can be used to access research services installed on a local machine, on a corporate server within the firewall, or on a server on the Internet outside the firewall, as shown in figure 3. This is because all communications between an Office 2003 client and a research service take place over HTTP.

Office 2003 client accessing research service within or outside of firewall.

Office 2003 applications can use services on:

Callout 1 Office 2003 Client

Callout 2 Corporate Information Provider behind a firewall

Callout
3 Information Provider outside firewall

Figure 3: Possible locations for Office 2003 client and research service

Easy conversion

Because research services are based on HTTP, SOAP, and XML, information providers of existing information services that use XML to communicate their data can use the Research Service SDK to make their services Office-compatible.

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