Xignite is going global! We plan to release the following services by the end of the year:

• XigniteGlobalHistorical
  XigniteGlobalHistorical will deliver end-of-day and historical split and dividend-adjusted prices for more than 200 global exchanges. Securities will be accessible by ISIN or Valoren and the service will also provide complete splits and dividend information. Hemscott and Telekurs will be the primary sources for this data.
• XigniteGlobalDelayed will deliver intraday quote information from the world’s leading exchanges. Please email us to verify if we are supporting the exchanges you need.

There are many more upcoming services so stay tuned for the next newsletter. If there is anything you need and don't find it on our website, don’t hesitate to email us. Your feedback helps us identify and prioritize new developments.

InsideView is not Umberto Milletti’s first successful startup. Umberto was also a co-founder of DigitalThink, a leading provider of Web-based corporate training services. Umberto helped lead DigitalThink to a successful IPO, growing annual revenues to $60 million, and ultimately to its sale to Convergys in 2004.

Umberto started InsideView in 2005 to create a different kind of sales intelligence service, designed to keep sales professionals informed about the people and companies they most want to understand - their prospects and customers. InsideView’s unique opportunity intelligence and analysis technology helps salespeople more effectively learn about the business priorities and decision-making structure of prospects. InsideView offers detailed, up-to-date sales intelligence about key managers, strategic initiatives, corporate pain points, and competitors.

To provide this information to its clients, InsideView needed to access and mine a large set of quantitative and qualitative information including press releases and SEC filings. "XigniteEdgar and XigniteReleases made it easy for us to access this information. We were able to focus on our opportunity dashboards based on information mining and aggregation technology for our clients instead of spending time building processes to simply collect the information." says Umberto. “Xignite web services helped us build our solution much quicker and at a much lower cost.”

And InsideView is not stopping here. They recently announced the availability of their solution on the popular SalesForce.com AppExchange platform.

Xignite Web Services Powered McDonald's Corporation ChipotleExchange.com Website
(Source:http://biz.yahoo.com)

E*Trade is Banking on Web Services
CIO Greg Framke talks about mashups and how using them will help the online trading and financial services company stay competitive.
(Source:http://www.businessweek.com)

JSONic Thoughts
Monday October 30, 2006 12:25PM
(Source:http://www.oreillynet.com)

Will it be working families vs. big business?
After a dozen years in the minority, the Democrats are ready to put their stamp on oil, pharma and finance.
(Source:http://money.cnn.com)

IBM Plants New SOA Development Centers in India, China
(Source:http://eweek.com)

An SOA call to arms
(Source http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com)

Users offer SOA advice: Start small
(Source: http://computerworld.com.au)

Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit
4-6 December 2006,
Gaylord Palms™ Resort & Convention Center,
Orlando, FL, USA

The 4th IEEE European Conference on Web Services
4-6 December 2006,
Zurich, Switzerland

XML 2006
5-7 December 2006,
Sheraton Boston Hotel,
Boston, USA

WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006
December 18-22, 2006,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Hong Kong

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Services listed below were released in the last twelve months:

• XigniteCalendar Xignite has partnered with Econoday, the leading provider of economic calendars, to deliver a web service version of their popular economic indicator calendar (take a peak at this one on Bloomberg). This service will be ideal for you to present business critical market announcements directly on your employee portals or on custom wireless applications.
• XigniteScreener lets you screen more than 10,000 US and Canadian equities based on more than 200 different criteria. See the What’s Hot section to learn more.

As of the last couple weeks, we have received approval from the following exchanges for redistribution of their delayed commodity prices. Check out XigniteFutures for the complete list:

• New York Board of Trade (NYBOT)
• Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)
• New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX)

Many applications require screening functionality. Whether you are building an analyst workstation or powering an investor web site, screening can really enhance the stickiness or value-add of your solution. Unfortunately, building such functionality has traditionally been complex and expensive.

First, you have to build and maintain a gigantic and expensive database containing all the possible criteria a user may want to use in a screen. Second, you have to design and build a sophisticated querying engine giving your users the flexibility they need.

Using XigniteScreener you can add screening functionality to your application or web site in minutes. The service lets you query and filter our 10,000+ database of US equities by more than 250 different parameters. You can screen equities by any combination of parameters, in addition, XigniteScreener offers some simple operations you can use to screen using one, two or three parameters.

For instance, let’s say that you want to query any equity that had a market capitalization greater than $150B and a PE greater than 50. The operation you would use for that is DoubleSearch. The operation accepts 2 similar sets of criteria (therefore its name).

To search for Market Capitalizations greater than $150B we enter the following values:

• Type1 = MarketCapitalization
• SearchType1 = GreaterThan
• FirstValue1 = 150000000000

To search for PE greater than 50:

• Type2 = PERatio
• SearchType2 = GreaterThan
• FirstValue2 = 50

Finally we enter Count = 100 to make sure we only retrieve the top 100 values. This precaution proves moot as the search only returns a single Company: Google, with a PE of 64 and a market cap of $152,708,086,442.00.

Using XSL to parse and format the result of a web service is easy. The first step is to use HTTP call to one of our web services and pull the result in an XML document. The next step is to apply an XSL stylesheet directly to the result of that call. Applying a stylesheet is simple. The only thing you must worry about is manipulating the document using the proper namespace.

For instance, the following code will apply a stylesheet directly to a document as it is loaded in a .Net XML WebControl for display in a web page.

First, create an xml document instance and load it with the result of the web service:

Then create and load the stylesheet:

Finally create a .Net XML webcontrol and apply the document and stylesheet to it:

Using the following web service output: http://www.xignite.com/xquotes.asmx/GetMarketSummary
And applying the following stylesheet:
http://www.xignite.com/Samples/example.xslt

We obtain the following web page:
http://www.xignite.com/Samples/xXsl.aspx?xml=
http://www.xignite.com/
xquotes.asmx/GetMarketSummary&xsl=
http://www.xignite.com/Samples/Example.xslt

Web services will rule the world in the near future. It will be an exhilarating experience to be an integral part of it.

If you are a master of your own trade, looking for an early startup to sweat into an apparent overnight success, Xignite is for you! We are a small but thriving company growing full of smart and motivated people. We work hard and are passionate about changing the life of our clients and making the delivery of web services the business model of the future.

For more information on Careers at Xignite click here.