The Planon ProCenter software is often deployed in environments with many other enterprise applications. Because of this, customers want to integrate Planon ProCenter into their common business processes allowing other enterprise applications to interface and use data from Planon ProCenter.

This approach shifts the focus of Planon ProCenter as being a ‘stand-alone enterprise application’ to a broader ‘service oriented’ solution in which enterprise applications are loosely coupled through well-defined interfaces.

In order to allow Planon ProCenter to play a role in such a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), we need to be able to interface with other applications. One of the major approaches to SOA is the use of Web services for tying applications together. Planon ProCenter offers basic support for Web services.