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Xignite Grows the Cloud with Six New Exchanges

Administrator — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Financial market web service and data provider Xignite made available some new market data from six additional global securities exchanges.

The new exchanges include the SIX Swiss Exchange, the Irish Stock Exchange, Wiener Börse AG, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

“We continue to see strong growth in demand for global market data delivered via the cloud,” said Stephane Dubois, CEO of Xignite. “Increasingly, large organizations are coming to us because they have a global presence and need global access to market data from any location, at any time and without heavy data management costs. Many regional firms around the world are also driving demand for market data generated by their local securities exchanges. These customers find on-demand delivery of market data an ideal way to meet their requirements.”

Xignite and Wolfram|Alpha Partner for Financial Web Services

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:44:00 GMT

Xignite, a cloud service provider of financial Web services for corporate applications, has announced that it will be working with computation knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha.

Information delivered by Xignite will be aggregated and analyzed by Wolfram|Alpha before it is returned to the user in the form of charts and graphs for comparative study.

Integrating Xignite enables Wolfram|Alpha to provide financial information for queries as simple as “biggest automotive company,” or as complex as “what is General Electric’s dividend per share in euros.” The integration also enables Wolfram|Alpha to return results in locally-adjusted currencies, based on real-time rates and location awareness.

"Wolfram|Alpha's goal is to be the single source for definitive answers to factual queries, and we rely on acquiring and processing data in a vast number of areas," said Peter Overmann, executive director of research and development at Wolfram Research, Inc. "In a climate where there's tremendous demand for financial tools and information, we've set out to create the best possible financial portal where all analyses and visualizations are calculated in real time, as users put in their questions. Xignite has met all of our expectations in terms of the scope, quality, and performance of its data services, and we look forward to working with the company as we expand Wolfram|Alpha."

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API Watch: On-Demand Stock Quotes

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Some news from the Web 2.0 Expo being held in New York today. Xignite, a provider of on-demand financial web services for applications, announced the availability of XigniteGlobalQuotes. The Web service delivers delayed stock quotes from global established and emerging markets such as the London Stock Exchange, Mumbai Stock Exchange and a whole host of others. If that's doesn't get you thinking about all the ways you can use the Xignite API then nothing will.

Data from emerging markets has traditionally been hard to come by and even more difficult to integrate into business processes. XigniteGlobalQuotes lets businesses integrate delayed stock data into their applications and websites in minutes with just a few lines of code and without deploying any infrastructure.

“For the last four years, Xignite has been at the forefront in delivering web services for the financial industry. We identified a strong, unmet demand for global financial data and are meeting it with XigniteGlobalQuotes,” said Stephane Dubois, founder and CEO of Xignite. “With cloud computing gaining traction in the enterprise and within financial institutions, IT departments are recognizing that cloud-based web services offer a flexible and cost-effective alternative for sourcing market data to power mission-critical applications.”

Splice it up at Xignite

Administrator — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:00 GMT

Xignite, Inc., the leading pure-play provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, announced the launch of Xignite Splice, the industry’s first supply-side web services platform. Splice is open to all corporate developers who wish to create and share new composite web services. The announcement was made at 2008 Web Services/SOA on Wall Street Conference, held yesterday in New York.

The Xignite Splice platform helps corporate developers compose and publish custom web services that mash up existing web services into a single, more complex composite web service. Splice’s patent-pending functionality is able to handle heavy-duty data transformation with high scalability and reusability to create industrial-strength web services. These advanced composite web services are then supplied as building blocks in the development of enterprise mashups, composite applications and other service-oriented business applications by business analysts and other power users.

Developers using the Splice platform can mix and mash any of Xignite’s 50 available financial web services with web services from third party sources. Corporate developers can even mash up web service-enabled enterprise data stores, such as those from common applications like Salesforce or SAP, to create truly unique composite web services. Developers can publish their new services to the community, along with possible consumption scenarios. Over time, Xignite Splice will feature a growing library of community-created composite web services.