Air-Trak Inc., San Diego, Calif., developer of the Cloudberry GPS tracking and communications system, is offering a Web service application programming interface

(API) to allow customers and partners at no additional cost to easily integrate location, routing or telemetry data with enterprise, office or third-party software.
A Web service is an application that accepts requests from other systems across the Internet, making it easy for programs to exchange information.
Using the Air-Trak Web service, software developers and customer IT departments can incorporate Cloudberry functions into other programs. Examples include tracking, say, the amount of heating oil carried by delivery vehicles or responding to customer requests in real time.
An API, provides the building blocks for developing software applications using familiar user interfaces. Air-Trak's Cloudberry API is a Web service that provides everything needed to exchange information with other applications easily over an Internet connection.
The Web service uses XML, a standard plain text language, to make open communications possible, regardless of the machine or operating system. Any Internet-enabled system can easily access the functions and display the desired information in a familiar format.
For more information, visit www.air-trak.com.