How can customers (developers and information workers) benefit from the DataMarket section of the Windows Azure Marketplace?
The DataMarket section of the Windows Azure Marketplace provides developers and information workers access to third party data, web services, and self-service business intelligence and analytics which they can access either on the desktop or mobile device(s). DataMarket allows clean, consistent APIs to all datasets and simple, easy to understand payloads in ATOM & RAW formats with support for OData. In addition, developers get proxy classes to use these services, removing the tedious job of dealing with XML code. The data streams in the DataMarket section of the marketplace provide developers with the ability to create entirely new scenarios by building applications with private and public disparate data sets from any platform (Microsoft or 3rd party such as iPhone or Google App Engine) which can be consumed across the web, desktop, and mobile devices. We provide developers with: •Consistent REST based APIs across all datasets facilitate development on any platform. •Automatic C# proxy
