About StrikeIron
Delivering Data as a Service
StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering
business data to any Internet-connected system, including Software as a Service
(SaaS) applications, Web sites, mashups, spreadsheets or core enterprise
systems. StrikeIron is the first mover as a Web services on-demand provider,
with a projected market potential of $4.6 billion dollars in 2013, according to
Forrester Research. Poised to help redefine the Web, StrikeIron is the leading
innovator in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) space, and is positioned to become
the primary data provider to next generation Web-oriented applications,
including applications built using platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, StrikeIron was founded by
veteran entrepreneurs with more than fifty years of combined experience in
building successful technology companies.
StrikeIron offers the following Products and Services to Deliver Data as a Service:
The Marketplace is sophisticated Software as a Service data distribution engine
that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want
to integrate live data from any number of sources. The Marketplace is built on
top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many
XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers
and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional
external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.
Currently, StrikeIron provides over 127 live data sources and business
functions from organizations such as D&B, Cortera (formerly eCredit) Gale,
MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, NASDAQ, The Sports Network, USPS,
and Zacks.
Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Marketplace have instant access
to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible
choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting,
flexible pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate
their utilization.
StrikeIron launched its IronCloud platform as a commercial offering in 2008. It
is the only comprehensive Web services Delivery Platform that opens up new
channels for data distribution and consumption through Web services.
Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost, complexity and challenges of
managing data distribution, including metering, monitoring, and authentication,
and concentrate their focus on making information easier to access and use.
IronCloud expands the application of this infrastructure beyond
subscription-based Web service usage. Companies that want to leverage the same
Web service delivery platform to externalize their own data or services to the
general public for use in applications, mashups, mobile devices, and Web sites
can take advantage of our "industrial strength Web service onboarding"
capabilities. They can have services live and available on the Web for use in a
very short period of time. This allows waves of innovators to build on top of
the service provider's offering and deliver valuable real-time analytics back
to the service provider about that usage so the offerings can be optimized.
StrikeIron offers a wide variety of Products and Tools to make the data easy to
integrate and immediately useful. Product include
SOA Express for Excel, an easy-to-use tool that lets
users do drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft
Excel spreadsheets as well as
Web
Services Analyzer which gives users faster understanding
of internal or external Web services with a mouse click!