March 09, 2010
SEO Still the Elephant in the Room with Flash-based RIAs and Websites
The dream of "Rich Internet Applications" has always been to improve the usability and interactiveness of Web applications. This in turn creates a better, rich user experience for the entire Web, creating a rising tide to raise all ships so to speak. These rich Internet applications enable external data sources and Web services, such as those that we provide at StrikeIron, with internal data sources and other reusable content, providing a foundation for compelling, sophisticated applications to emerge. This has the potential to literally change the landscape of the Web for the better. - read more
March 02, 2010
Can You Afford to Ignore Data Governance in Salesforce.com?
Data quality, a key pillar of data governance, is often cited as the #1 issue preventing success among CRM and marketing professionals. When CRM systems fail to deliver, poor data quality is quite often pointed to as the chief villain. But even marginal success or mixed results are a shame when applying a data governance strategy can reap tremendous benefits to the practicing organization. And anyone employing business intelligence analytics on top of their CRM system (and who wouldn't) is wasting their time and perhaps even hurting their organization if these analytics are not performed on a foundation of quality, accurate data. - read more
February 16, 2010
IBM Mashup Center Demonstration Showcases StrikeIron Web Services
IBM demonstrates its Mashup Center capabilities by building a demo using several Web services from StrikeIron. - read more
February 09, 2010
HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX - What it Means for Data Providers
If you remember Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, Betamax vs VHS, and many of the other format wars, then you have a pretty good idea about what we are on the precipice of in the world of Web animation frameworks and browser standards. - read more
January 30, 2010
Validating Email Addresses using REST - an Example
An actual REST example demonstrates how to perform an email verification on the fly. - read more
January 26, 2010
Twenty-Five Use Cases for SMS Text Messaging Alerts and Notifications
Twenty-five use cases for SMS text messaging - read more
January 19, 2010
Brokering Data via Web Services for CRM, Marketing, and E-Commerce Applications
StrikeIron has been brokering data to a large number of customers in production applications for quite some time now. We launched our "Web Services Marketplace" in 2005, but had customers commercially consuming data from us from within their applications and... - read more
January 11, 2010
The Business Case for Ongoing Data Quality via the Web
The Quality of data stored within an organization's various databases is an important business issue. Customer and operational data is used often at a high level as the basis for strategic decision making. It also used simply for operating a... - read more
January 05, 2010
A Consistent Business Model Across Many Different Web Services
The advantages of a consistent business model across many different Web services and Web services APIs explained. - read more
December 22, 2009
Salesforce.com Only as Good as the Data Within it: StrikeIron Web Services Now Fully Integrated, Including Custom Field Mappings and Batch Processing
Since the beginning of contact management applications, the effectiveness of CRM has always been dependent on the quality and comprehensiveness of the data within the CRM system's database. The better the data inside, the better the ROI. Incomplete or inaccurately... - read more