Hi all,

I am looking into the possibility of creating a Research Web Service for our company which can be used by our internal employees (through Office Research functionality) to look up company approved terms related to our business.  Since SFDC can be integrated with virtually anything, and from all the documentation and posts I have read about the subject so far, I am confident that this is very much possible to do. However, I'm not a developer by any means and most of the information goes right over my head.

I am planning to create a small custom object which would house the terms as records, with maybe 5 or 6 different fields for each record.

Here's what I understand so far (correct me if I am wrong):

• Office Reseach is the web service client, and its structure and methods to communicate with the web service are predefined.
• SFDC can host a web service, through an apex class.