What Is Notification Services?

Notification Services is a programming framework for creating applications that generate and send notifications, as well as a platform for hosting those applications. Using the programming framework, you can quickly create applications to generate and send notifications to subscribers. After creating the application, you can deploy the application on the Notification Services platform.

In This Section

Topic	Description
What Does Notification Services Do?	Explains in general terms how Notification Services uses events and subscriptions to create notifications.
How Does Notification Services Work?	Explains how Notification Services obtains events and subscriptions, and generates and distributes notifications.
Why Use Notification Services?	Explains the benefits of using Notification Services instead of other notification solutions.

See Also

Concepts

Usage Scenarios for Notification Services
Notification Services Architecture
Notification Services Programming Framework
Notification Services Deployment Options
Notification Services Security, Reliability, Scalability, and Availability
Notification Services and Other Technologies
Editions of Notification Services

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