商情資訊服務由於Internet 的普及和各種瀏覽界面的出現,使得客製化、即時化及互通性等需求不斷的產生,如何利用較少的資源以高度相容的格式快速產生最新的商情資訊並透過Internet傳遞此產品給予客戶,以滿足客戶少量多樣的商情報告需求,一直以來都是令人困擾的問題。相關企業往往以類似EDI型式定期傳送或接收整批資料然後再予以處理,轉換成其自有格式後提供給客戶端使用,此種作法不但使其核心競爭力來源 — 商情資料存放於企業體之外,管理上較為不易也另人對其資料安全產生疑慮。 且當面對客戶端即時且多樣化的資料格式需求時,常因開發時間過久或任務時程編排上的差異而延誤到企業商機及競爭力。所以本研究針對商情服務業的特性並基於跨平台資料交換的前題下運用XML及Web Service,發展出一個多層式架構的「整合性商情服務提供系統」,來提供商情資料的取得、轉置及商情資訊的服務提供也使商情需求企業的開發人員能線上取得使用此服務所需資訊進而能快速且正確地開發出使用此服務所需系統。
Due to the widely adoption of Internet and more advanced application of browsing interface, business information service has been even more customized, instantaneous and mutual-transmitted than ever. It has been an issue of delivering the latest business information promptly through internet at the most rationalized resources and highly scalablized specification in order to satisfy the need of small quantity with various designs. Enterprises have delivered and transmitted batches of data frequently using the form such as EDI. This has put the core competitive source, the business information, outside the corporation. Meanwhile, it also reduces the management risk of data security. When facing the need of instantaneous and diversified data specification at client end it might incur the loss of business opportunities and competitiveness because of a longer R&D time or the difference of tasks scheduling. Hence, this research is aimed to develop a multi-tier infrastructure of integrated business information system using XML and Web Service within cross-platform data exchange. This integrated infrastructure is designed to provide the acquiring, transforming and service of real time business information. Further more, software developers will be able to develop any necessary application based on this system with no time delay.