Black Knight Launches Webhooks Automation Component for Its Optimal Blue API Platform, Adds Event-Based Push Delivery of Real-Time Transactional Data

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Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) has launched a new webhooks component for its Optimal Blue API platform, enhancing efficiency and workflow automation for lenders. This development reflects the company's API-first strategy, offering real-time notifications on various mortgage transactions without the need for requests. The launch includes comprehensive documentation and a self-serve configuration dashboard, aimed at helping clients customize notifications. According to Scott Happ, this innovation is designed to save valuable client time and improve overall service delivery.

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• Launch of webhooks component enhances lender efficiencies and automation.
• Real-time notifications simplify mortgage transaction processes.
• Comprehensive documentation and self-serve dashboard improve user experience and customization.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI), a leading provider of integrated software, data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, recently announced the launch of a new webhooks component for its Optimal Blue application programming interface (API) platform. This highly anticipated launch is another step forward in the company's ongoing commitment to an API-first strategy that boosts lender efficiencies and workflow automation by providing real-time access to advanced secondary marketing capabilities throughout the mortgage loan process.

Accessible via the Optimal Blue API Developer Portal, API webhooks publish event-based notifications directly to a subscriber, providing a simple way to deliver real-time data about transactions that take place within Black Knight's Optimal Blue platform. While APIs have historically included a request followed by a response, no request is required for a webhook. Rather, API webhooks will intuitively deliver the data when it becomes available--saving valuable time and effort. This level of automation is highly advantageous to lenders, providing real-time notifications on lock requests, concessions, extensions, profile and product changes, relocks and more.

"Our expanding universe of APIs is essential to our continuous innovation," explained Scott Happ, president, Black Knight Secondary Marketing Technologies. "The new webhooks component of our Optimal Blue API platform is the next step, saving our clients valuable time and effort by eliminating the need to request data. Webhooks take automation one step further and deliver up-to-date, relevant details directly to the user."

The initial launch features two components: documentation and a self-serve configuration dashboard. The documentation page provides details about all events available for subscription, with the corresponding business definition and the complete schema payload for each event. The self-serve dashboard can be configured based on a client's personal preferences and can maintain specific notification URLs.

About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.

Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serve their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com.

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Michelle Kersch	Mitch Cohen
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michelle.kersch@bkfs.com	mitch.cohen@bkfs.com

 

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FAQ

What is Black Knight, Inc.'s recent announcement regarding BKI?

Black Knight, Inc. announced the launch of a new webhooks component for its Optimal Blue API platform.

How do the new webhooks benefit lenders using Black Knight's services?

The webhooks provide real-time notifications and eliminate the need for clients to request data, thereby saving time.

When was the webhooks component launched by Black Knight, Inc.?

The webhooks component was launched on January 4, 2021.

What features are included in the new webhooks launched by Black Knight?

The initial launch includes documentation on available events and a self-serve configuration dashboard.

What is the purpose of the Optimal Blue API platform introduced by Black Knight, Inc.?

The Optimal Blue API platform aims to enhance secondary marketing capabilities and improve workflow automation in the mortgage loan process.