Swingtide unveils first products
Company eyes XML
Web services startup Swingtide on Monday unveiled the first two products in what will become its suite of software for making Web services work together.
The Portsmouth, N.H.-based company took the wraps off of QoB (Quality of Business) Lab and QoB Assistant, both of which were built to automate the design of XML-based service networks, according to president David Sweet.
QOB Assistant is a vendor neutral resource including a populated knowledge base populated with a project planning tool, as well as an online community users can tap into for information about XML and related issues.
QoB Lab, for its part, is a three-day course created to help customers understand the fundamentals of Web services interoperability, and includes information on a dozen XML standards, XML implementations and typical interoperability problems.
These two are the first in what Sweet said would become an integrated suite with the aim of helping customers understand, define, manage and analyze Web services.
“I think one of the hallmarks of XML is that it lends itself to heterogeneous deployments. And I think it’s accepted that change will be a constant,” Sweet said.
To complete its suite, the company will release the software pieces for managing and analysis in the second quarter of this year, Sweet said.
“We want this to come together as an integrated suite,” he said.
