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'''Seekda''' <ref name="Seekda">{{cite web |url=https://www.seekda.com/en/darumseekda |title=About us |publisher=Seekda}}</ref> is a hospitality management software company and a provider in the field of e-tourism. Headquartered in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], the company was founded in 2007,<ref name="WKO">{{cite web |url=https://firmen.wko.at/seekda-gmbh-mehr-als-ein-channel-manager---eine-distributionsplattform/wien/?firmaid=dd12f473-1ce9-490c-bdb9-77b25f1ad3ca |title=Entry in company directory |publisher=WKO}}</ref> and employs around 50 people, mainly IT staff and tourism experts.
'''Seekda''' is an Austrian hospitality management software company and a provider in the field of e-tourism. Headquartered in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], the company was founded in 2007,<ref name="WKO">{{cite web |url=https://firmen.wko.at/seekda-gmbh-mehr-als-ein-channel-manager---eine-distributionsplattform/wien/?firmaid=dd12f473-1ce9-490c-bdb9-77b25f1ad3ca |title=Entry in company directory |publisher=WKO}}</ref> and employs around 50 people, mainly IT staff and tourism experts.


==Background==
Seekda develops and offers solutions for the tourism industry that help hotels achieve their sales goals through a web-based interface. Seekda's portfolio includes a customizable booking engine with revenue-generating marketing features, connections to the most OTA and META channels, and hotel programs (PMS). In addition, Seekda matches its customers with brands through loyalty and rewards programs.
Seekda GmbH was based in [[Innsbruck]], Austria in 2010.<ref name="Krause2010">{{cite journal |last=Krause |first=Jan Christian |editor1-last=Sadiq |editor1-first=M. A. Karim |editor2-last=Tamir |editor2-first=Dan |editor3-last=Sophatsathit |editor3-first=Peraphon |date=2010 |title=Using Thematic Grids to Document Web Service Operations |url=https://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/User/JanChristianKrause/SETP-10-Pub.pdf |journal=International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice 2010 |publisher=International Society for Research in Science and Technology |isbn=978-1-61782-073-1 |accessdate=2024-05-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501061144/https://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/User/JanChristianKrause/SETP-10-Pub.pdf |archivedate=2024-05-01 }}</ref> The company began keeping track of web services in 2006.<ref name="Mirmotalebi2012">{{cite journal |last1=Mirmotalebi |first1=Rozita |last2=Ding |first2=Chen |last3=Chi |first3=Chi-Hung |date=2012 |title=Modeling User's Non-functional Preferences for Personalized Service Ranking |journal=[[Lecture Notes in Computer Science]] |publisher=[[Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg]] |volume=7636 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-34321-6_24 |isbn=978-3-642-34320-9 }}</ref> The [[Montreal]]-based company Valsoft in August 2023 purchased Seekda, which was based in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref name="Joseph2023-08-10">{{cite news |last=Joseph |first=Irien |date=2023-08-10 |title=Valsoft buys European software companies Klopotek and Seekda |url=https://www.pehub.com/valsoft-buys-european-software-companies-klopotek-and-seekda/ |website=PE Hub |publisher=[[Private Equity International]] |accessdate=2024-05-01 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501092222/https://www.pehub.com/valsoft-buys-european-software-companies-klopotek-and-seekda/ |archivedate=2024-05-01 }}</ref>


Seekda's [[web crawler]] identifies web services that it subsequently categorises into an [[ontology (information science)|ontology]]. The crawler directs its attention to [[Web Services Description Language]] (WSDL) and [[REST]]ful services. Finding every web service is Seekda's goal.<ref name="Fensel327">{{harvnb|Fensel|Facca|Simperl|Toma|2011|p=327}}</ref> Seekda monitors services from numerous areas including shopping, entertainment, sports, maps, and weather.<ref name="Li2010">{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Deyi |last2=Zhang |first2=Haisu |last3=Liu |first3=Yuchao |last4=Chen |first4=Guishen |date=2010 |title=On Foundations of Services Interoperation in Cloud Computing |journal=[[Lecture Notes in Computer Science]] |publisher=[[Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg]] |page=9 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-14553-7_3 |isbn=978-3-642-14552-0 }}</ref> In August 2011, Seekda had saved 7,739 providers and 28,606 services. The scholar Rozita Mirmotalebi and her coauthors processed the services, eliminating those corresponding to [[link rot|dead links]]. They found that there were 1,208 services and 537 providers remaining.<ref name="Mirmotalebi2012"/> In the [[Web Services Description Language]] (WSDL) format, Seekda provides [[interface description language|interface descriptions]] for [[web service]]s. Its web crawlers find WSDL descriptions on the Internet for [[web indexing|indexing]].<ref name="Krause2010"/>
Seekda's target groups are accommodation providers of all kinds - from campsites, vacation apartments and vacation homes to individual hotels or large hotel chains.

Seekda has a [[web service]] [[search engine]] that runs queries over the data the crawler fetched. Every web service returned in the results has the service's name, its provider, a brief description, tags, and the country where it is accessed. Search results can be ordered by the web service's country and its provider, among other characteristics. Seekda monitors the [[availability (system)|availability]] of the services it has tracked and makes the data available in search results. The "Availability" tab displays the "average/connect time" (how long it took to start connecting to the service), the "average/response time" (how long it took for the full response to be delivered), the "connect errors and timeouts", and the "read errors and timeouts".<ref name="Fensel333">{{harvnb|Fensel|Facca|Simperl|Toma|2011|p=333}}</ref>

Seekda's goal is to be a go-between for a hotel and platforms that promote their business.<ref name="Fensel342">{{harvnb|Fensel|Facca|Simperl|Toma|2011|p=342}}</ref> Seekda follows the [[OpenTravel Alliance]] (OTA) [[data model]], which offers a framework for traveling industry elements like [[flight]]s, hotels, and tickets. Seekda then maps and persists "the OTA elements to target channel services" like [[Expedia]]. A hotel may want to integrate their web service with several websites to promote their business. Computer tools handle this when the hotel maps their service's data model to the OTA.<ref name="Fensel340">{{harvnb|Fensel|Facca|Simperl|Toma|2011|p=340}}</ref> In the past, a hotel had to reach out to each advertising platform they want to use which was a labour-intensive process.<ref name="Fensel342"/> "Seekda! connect", a primary product from the company,<ref name="Fensel342"/> seeks to automate the process.<ref name="Fensel344">{{harvnb|Fensel|Facca|Simperl|Toma|2011|p=344}}</ref> Instead of having to reach out to each advertising platform, a hotel can use Seekda! connect, which handles the integration. The hotel can provide attributes about their rooms, when they are open, their amenities, and their rules. The hotel configures the room data (including cost and capacity) which is encoded in [[XML]] following the OTA data model. Seekda! connect sends the information to the advertising platforms, after which customers are able to find rooms via both the hotel's web page and the advertising platforms.<ref name="Fensel344"/>

==Reception==
The author Jan Christian Krause said that Seekda's data is a valid sample of a [[system integration]] platform for [[web service]]s owing to the large quantity of operations sourced from numerous web services.<ref name="Krause2010"/> Elena Simperl and her coauthors wrote, "By pre-filtering the Web content and indexing Web API specific features, seekda manages the largest set of Web APIs known and make comparison easier through a unified presentation."<ref name="Simperl2013">{{cite book |last1=Simperl |first1=Elena |last2=Cuel |first2=Roberta |last3=Stein |first3=Martin |date=2013 |chapter=Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation |title=Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering |location=Cham |publisher=[[Springer (publisher)|Springer]] |isbn=978-3-031-79440-7 |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-79441-4_4 }}</ref>

The scholar Bin Xu and his coauthors called Seekda "the most comprehensive [[search engine]]" for web services. They criticised Seeka for not providing any search options beyond [[keyword search]], compromising the search quality's accuracy. Using the example of an engineer conducting a Seekda search for "send email", they said Seekda's top web service result was [[SMS]], which is inaccurate.<ref name="Bin2012">{{cite journal |last1=Bin |first1=Xu |last2=Sen |first2=Luo |last3=Sun |first3=Kewu |date=2012 |title=Towards Multimodal Query in Web Service Search |journal=2012 IEEE 19th International Conference on Web Services |publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] |doi=10.1109/ICWS.2012.42 |isbn=978-1-4673-2131-0 }}</ref> Charles Petrie said in ''[[IEEE Internet Computing]]'', "Seekda is possibly the best product of this kind out there. But you see the problem, don't you?" He was critical of how Seekda failed to make it clear to users what certain fields meant from WSDL service search results. The fields need to be fill in as part of a message the user transmitted to a WSDL service.<ref name="Petrie2009-11-06">{{cite news |last=Petrie |first=Charles |date=2009-11-06 |title=Practical Web Services |journal=[[IEEE Internet Computing]] |volume=13 |issue=6 |doi=10.1109/MIC.2009.135 }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Fensel |first1=Dieter |last2=Facca |first2=Federico Michele |last3=Simperl |first3=Elena |last4=Toma |first4=Ioan |date=2011 |chapter=Seekda: The Business Point of View |title=Semantic Web Services |location=Heidelberg |publisher=[[Springer Berlin]] |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-19193-0_14 |isbn=978-3-642-19192-3 }}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.seekda.com/ Seekda official website]
*[http://www.seekda.com/ Official website]
*[http://www.firmenmonitor.at/Secure/CompanyDetail.aspx?CID=715801&SID=41cb035b-7845-4c93-aef2-916d284d6c65&PID=1 Legal entry in company register]
*[https://justizonline.gv.at/jop/web/firmenbuchabfrage/405030h_3 Entry in austria justice Company register query]


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Seekda GmbH
Company typeGmbH
IndustryeTourism
Internet, Software
Founded2007
HeadquartersVienna, Austria
ProductsIT solutions for the eTourism
Number of employees
50
Websitewww.seekda.com

Seekda is an Austrian hospitality management software company and a provider in the field of e-tourism. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the company was founded in 2007,[1] and employs around 50 people, mainly IT staff and tourism experts.

Background

Seekda GmbH was based in Innsbruck, Austria in 2010.[2] The company began keeping track of web services in 2006.[3] The Montreal-based company Valsoft in August 2023 purchased Seekda, which was based in Vienna, Austria.[4]

Seekda's web crawler identifies web services that it subsequently categorises into an ontology. The crawler directs its attention to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and RESTful services. Finding every web service is Seekda's goal.[5] Seekda monitors services from numerous areas including shopping, entertainment, sports, maps, and weather.[6] In August 2011, Seekda had saved 7,739 providers and 28,606 services. The scholar Rozita Mirmotalebi and her coauthors processed the services, eliminating those corresponding to dead links. They found that there were 1,208 services and 537 providers remaining.[3] In the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) format, Seekda provides interface descriptions for web services. Its web crawlers find WSDL descriptions on the Internet for indexing.[2]

Seekda has a web service search engine that runs queries over the data the crawler fetched. Every web service returned in the results has the service's name, its provider, a brief description, tags, and the country where it is accessed. Search results can be ordered by the web service's country and its provider, among other characteristics. Seekda monitors the availability of the services it has tracked and makes the data available in search results. The "Availability" tab displays the "average/connect time" (how long it took to start connecting to the service), the "average/response time" (how long it took for the full response to be delivered), the "connect errors and timeouts", and the "read errors and timeouts".[7]

Seekda's goal is to be a go-between for a hotel and platforms that promote their business.[8] Seekda follows the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) data model, which offers a framework for traveling industry elements like flights, hotels, and tickets. Seekda then maps and persists "the OTA elements to target channel services" like Expedia. A hotel may want to integrate their web service with several websites to promote their business. Computer tools handle this when the hotel maps their service's data model to the OTA.[9] In the past, a hotel had to reach out to each advertising platform they want to use which was a labour-intensive process.[8] "Seekda! connect", a primary product from the company,[8] seeks to automate the process.[10] Instead of having to reach out to each advertising platform, a hotel can use Seekda! connect, which handles the integration. The hotel can provide attributes about their rooms, when they are open, their amenities, and their rules. The hotel configures the room data (including cost and capacity) which is encoded in XML following the OTA data model. Seekda! connect sends the information to the advertising platforms, after which customers are able to find rooms via both the hotel's web page and the advertising platforms.[10]

Reception

The author Jan Christian Krause said that Seekda's data is a valid sample of a system integration platform for web services owing to the large quantity of operations sourced from numerous web services.[2] Elena Simperl and her coauthors wrote, "By pre-filtering the Web content and indexing Web API specific features, seekda manages the largest set of Web APIs known and make comparison easier through a unified presentation."[11]

The scholar Bin Xu and his coauthors called Seekda "the most comprehensive search engine" for web services. They criticised Seeka for not providing any search options beyond keyword search, compromising the search quality's accuracy. Using the example of an engineer conducting a Seekda search for "send email", they said Seekda's top web service result was SMS, which is inaccurate.[12] Charles Petrie said in IEEE Internet Computing, "Seekda is possibly the best product of this kind out there. But you see the problem, don't you?" He was critical of how Seekda failed to make it clear to users what certain fields meant from WSDL service search results. The fields need to be fill in as part of a message the user transmitted to a WSDL service.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Entry in company directory". WKO.
  2. ^ a b c Krause, Jan Christian (2010). Sadiq, M. A. Karim; Tamir, Dan; Sophatsathit, Peraphon (eds.). "Using Thematic Grids to Document Web Service Operations" (PDF). International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice 2010. International Society for Research in Science and Technology. ISBN 978-1-61782-073-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-05-01. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  3. ^ a b Mirmotalebi, Rozita; Ding, Chen; Chi, Chi-Hung (2012). "Modeling User's Non-functional Preferences for Personalized Service Ranking". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 7636. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34321-6_24. ISBN 978-3-642-34320-9.
  4. ^ Joseph, Irien (2023-08-10). "Valsoft buys European software companies Klopotek and Seekda". PE Hub. Private Equity International. Archived from the original on 2024-05-01. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  5. ^ Fensel et al. 2011, p. 327
  6. ^ Li, Deyi; Zhang, Haisu; Liu, Yuchao; Chen, Guishen (2010). "On Foundations of Services Interoperation in Cloud Computing". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 9. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14553-7_3. ISBN 978-3-642-14552-0.
  7. ^ Fensel et al. 2011, p. 333
  8. ^ a b c Fensel et al. 2011, p. 342
  9. ^ Fensel et al. 2011, p. 340
  10. ^ a b Fensel et al. 2011, p. 344
  11. ^ Simperl, Elena; Cuel, Roberta; Stein, Martin (2013). "Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation". Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering. Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-79441-4_4. ISBN 978-3-031-79440-7.
  12. ^ Bin, Xu; Sen, Luo; Sun, Kewu (2012). "Towards Multimodal Query in Web Service Search". 2012 IEEE 19th International Conference on Web Services. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi:10.1109/ICWS.2012.42. ISBN 978-1-4673-2131-0.
  13. ^ Petrie, Charles (2009-11-06). "Practical Web Services". IEEE Internet Computing. Vol. 13, no. 6. doi:10.1109/MIC.2009.135.

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