The Web Service

TheWebService is a new brand that we've launched which is aimed more at a more technical audience.

It's a brand which marks our transition from being a company that is best known in the UK for addresses and reflects the fact that we offer a much wider portfolio of web services which continue to improve the whole process of managing data throughout its lifecycle.

So why did we call it TheWebService? Well, in our view, web services are now recognized as a technology in their own right, and whilst we've moved on from the general view that a web service is "any service relating to the internet", it still confuses some.

Probably more importantly in our view is that international markets are currently opening up to the possibilities of public and privately hosted data services and frankly we were getting a bit fed up telling people at international trade shows that we were nothing to do with posting data as the name Postcode Anywhere might suggest!

So TheWebService was born. It's got a long pedigree through Postcode Anywhere, but it comes with a big difference.

It's designed to provide developers with a much easier access to public data web services backed by a pricing model that is aimed to maximize flexibility of movement between different data sources whilst giving you complete transparency on pricing.

It's also a completely new innovation which enables you to deploy and consume your own data through our web service infrastructure using the MyTables range of web services.