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APIs

The API names on the product page

Named web services, the Reporting role, layouts, call variables, and the clocks that delete evidence.

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The APIs and SDKs page names CTI Web Services, Configuration Web Services, Reporting Web Services, Statistics Web Services, Web2Campaign, the CRM SDK, and Web Connectors. The same page also says REST. It does not, in the text this lab relied on, give a one-line SOAP-versus-REST label for every family.

Call a family by its product name. If you have not opened that family's guide, write 'transport unconfirmed' instead of guessing SOAP or REST.

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From the APIs and SDKs page.

Worked example

Name the family

Match three jobs to product names.

  1. Click-to-call style control
  2. A nightly report extract
  3. A CRM that is not in the adapter list

You used three different names.

Web2Campaign is
Statistics and Reporting are
A homegrown CRM starts with
This lab's rule on SOAP versus REST per family is
Unencrypted API calls are

Sources and go deeper

  • APIs and SDKs. vendor. last checked 2026-10.
  • Technical requirements PDF. vendor. last checked 2026-10. Fetched for this lab in October 2026. Re-read before you buy hardware or open a firewall.
  • confirm. The overview page says REST and also lists Web Services families. This lab does not assign a transport to each family. last checked 2026-10.

Ecosystem

Glossary. Campaign profile: Overrides defaults such as ANI. One profile is assigned to a campaign. The same profile can be reused. Campaign profiles

Sister technologies. RedSky. Emergency-location partner on the E911 data sheet. Not the ITSP. E911 data sheet

Config. Match three jobs to product names.

Troubleshooting. Six different families were lumped into one word. Name the family that failed.

Cross-platform bridge. A mapping to another PBX or contact center is a teaching bridge. It is not an import button.

Future hook. The guide's cloud endpoint stays unset. Confirm before relying on a dated catalog or a case-study number.

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