Use Dallas to:

• Find premium content to power next-generation killer apps for consumer and business scenarios
• Discover and license valuable data to improve existing applications or reports
• Bring disparate data sets together in innovative ways to gain new insight into business performance and processes
• Instantly and visually explore APIs across all content providers for blob, structured, and real-time web services
• Easily consume third party data inside Microsoft Office and SQL Server for rich reporting and analytics

Benefits

Developers

• Trial subscriptions allow you to investigate content and develop applications without paying data royalties
• Simple transaction and subscription models allow pay as you grow access to multi-million dollar datasets
• Consistent REST based OData APIs across all datasets facilitate development on any platform
• Visually build and explore APIs, preview results
• Use Add Service Reference in Visual Studio to easily get access to Dallas data from within your application

Information Workers

• Integration with PowerPivot to easily work with the data in Microsoft Excel
• Simple, predictable licensing models for acquiring content
• Coming soon: ability to consume data from SQL Server, SQL Azure Database, and other Microsoft Office assets

Content Partners

• Easy publication and on-boarding process regardless of blob data, or structured data
• Developer tooling on the Microsoft platform to ease Visual Studio and .NET development
• Expose your content to Microsoft’s global developer and information worker community
• Content discovery and integration inside Microsoft Office and SQL Server
• Scalable Microsoft cloud computing platform handles storage, delivery, billing, and reporting

Dallas Features

Rich Web Services

• Secure, REST based model for consuming services across the entire content catalog
• Dynamic pagination built into the APIs to simplify access
• Standard OData feeds are available for most services
• HTTP Basic Authentication

Service Explorer

• Preview the data of services you have subscribed to in tabular form or as OData feed
• Instantly copy the visually built URL for the service call into clipboard to ease development

Marketplace Integration and Discovery Portal

• Easily Discover new data across all domains including consumer and business
• Manage service subscriptions and usage limits
• Manage account keys to access the services

Go to the Dallas Developer page