FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) August 19, 2005 -- Seattle, WA August 19, 2005: Lightspoke, a provider of hosted web applications for small/mid-sized businesses, announced the immediate availability of web services. Lightspoke’s move towards web services follows closely on the heels of salesforce.com, which began offering similar services last year.

Web services has become the de-facto method of communications between internet services. For utility computing providers like salesforce.com and Lightspoke, web services allow customers to integrate existing IT investments with the data inside the hosted web applications. In addition to data access, Lightspoke web services offers pre-generated forms and reports that can be embedded into existing web sites. Customers with a web site can build database driven functionality with

little or no programming. All of the forms and reports can be configured through simple, easy-to-use web pages on Lightspoke.

Says Donald Browne, Director of Supply Chain Operations at a Seattle-based distributor: “We were able to deliver a fully customized intranet service to round-up our 50 or so vendors in less than a month [by using Lightspoke]. Now, our vendors update their own profile and proactively tell us what their capacities are.” Utility computing coupled with web services are enabling nimble web applications to be deployed in a way that works seamlessly with the existing business infrastructure.

Utility computing providers are enabling small/mid-sized businesses to manage the complexities of their businesses at the same level of sophistication historically

available to larger companies. When coupled with prudent use of web services, many utility computing providers are delivering significant top and bottom-line improvements to small/mid-sized businesses.

Lightspoke is the leading hosted web-based database delivering custom web applications in 60 seconds. To learn more, visit http://www.lightspoke.com.

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