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<META HTTP-EQUIV="assetid" CONTENT="HV01082297"><META NAME="lcid" CONTENT="1033"><title>Research Service Scenarios</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="office10.css"><script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript" src="ExpCollapse.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="inline.js"></script></head><body><p id="ExpandAllLine" class="ExpFav"><a href="#" onclick="ExpandAll()" onkeypress="ExpandAll()" class="DropDown"><img id="picHeader" border="0" src="expandtri.gif" alt="Show All"><span id="ExpandAll">Show All</span></a></p><h1>Research Service Scenarios</h1><p>The Research feature provides a platform for three kinds of third-party research services: </p><p><a href="#" class="DropDown" onclick="Outline2()" onkeypress="Outline2()"><img border="0" src="blueup.gif" alt="Show">General research services</a></p><div id="ExpCol" class="collapsed" border="0">Third-party developers can write general purpose research services that Microsoft® Office 2003 users may find useful, such as a dictionary or a thesaurus.</div><p><a href="#" class="DropDown" onclick="Outline2()" onkeypress="Outline2()"><img border="0" src="blueup.gif" alt="Show">Subscription research services</a></p><div id="ExpCol" class="collapsed" border="0"><p>Third-parties companies can also build and advertise research services that users can subscribe to. For example, law firms may be interested in subscribing to research services for legal case reviews, reducing their time and cost on accessing government resources.</p></div><p><a href="#" class="DropDown" onclick="Outline2()" onkeypress="Outline2()"><img border="0" src="blueup.gif" alt="Show">Custom research services</a></p><div id="ExpCol" class="collapsed" border="0"><p>Corporations can build custom research services for their own corporate use.</p><p>For example, a pharmaceutical company, Contoso Pharmaceuticals, with a large internal database containing product, insurance, and sales data could create a research service that makes this data available to designated users who work with Office 2003 applications. The Research Service Software Development Kit provides detailed information about building a custom research service. </p>This service would consist of a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) method named <b class="bterm">Registration</b> that registers the service on a client computer, and another SOAP method, <b class="bterm">Query</b>, that handles client queries, retrieves the information from the database, and returns the information to the client.
A user can add the service by:<ol><li>Clicking <b class="ui">Research options</b> in the <b class="bterm">Research</b> task pane.</li><li>Clicking <b class="ui">Add Services</b> in the <b class="ui">Research Options</b> dialog box.</li><li>Typing the URL of the service, as shown in Figure 1.</li></ol> <img border="0" src="../img/rsResearchAddServices.gif" alt="Add a Research service."><p><p><img border="0" src="../img/callout1y_ZA01093948.gif" alt="Callout 1"> The user adds the service by typing the URL in the Address box.</p></p><p class="ac">Figure 1: Adding a research service manually</p><p>Alternatively, the user could use one of the deployment methods described in the <a href="rsDeploymentOverview.htm" id="HV01082278" lcid=" ">Deployment Overview</a>.</p><p>After adding the new service <b class="bterm">Contoso Reference</b>, the user searches for “Blood Pressure” on the Contoso research service and returns the results shown in Figure 2. Key corporate data is now available where the user needs it. </p><img border="0" src="../img/New_RTWP_9.gif" alt="Results on a search on a custom research service."><p class="ac">Figure 2: Results from a search on the custom research service</p></div><h2>Easy configuration</h2><p>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.</p><p><img border="0" src="../img/RTWP_4_new.gif" alt="Office 2003 client accessing research service within or outside of firewall."></p><p>Office 2003 applications can use services on:</p><p> <p><img border="0" src="../img/callout1y_ZA01093948.gif" alt="Callout 1"> Office 2003 Client</p></p><p> <p><img border="0" src="../img/callout2y_ZA01093949.gif" alt="Callout 2"> Corporate Information Provider behind a firewall</p></p><p> <p><img border="0" src="../img/callout3y_ZA01093950.gif" alt="Callout
3"> Information Provider outside firewall</p></p><p class="ac">Figure 3: Possible locations for Office 2003 client and research service</p><h2>Easy conversion</h2><p>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.</p><center><a href="XMLSchemaCopyright_HV01147162.htm">©2003-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</a>
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