Luminate Online Web Services provide clients and partners with a standard interface for building client applications that retrieve and synchronize data with the Luminate Online server.

Luminate Online Web Services follow the SOAP standard, in which all messages between the client and server follow a particular XML format. In addition, all supported operations are described in a machine-readable document written in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The combination of SOAP and WSDL makes it easy to create applications with most popular development environments, including Java and .NET.

Luminate Online Web Services is one component of Luminate Online's Open API portfolio, and is intended primarily for implementing standalone applications such as data integration agents. Other components of the Open API portfolio follow the ReST style of operation, which is easier to work with in simpler browser-based applications.