StrikeIron Expands Data Quality Offerings with Three New 24–Hour Accurate Directory Information Web Services
On–Demand access to the most up–to–date Residential, Business, and Government Directory Information
Research Triangle Park, N.C. — December 7, 2004 — StrikeIron Inc., developer of the innovative StrikeIron Web Services Business Network (WSBizNet) that simplifies working with Web services, today announced the availability of three additional data quality Web services to its expanding network. The 24–hour Accurate Directory Information services include StrikeIron 24–hour Accurate Residential Lookup, 24–hour Accurate Business and Government Lookup and 24–hour Accurate Reverse Phone Lookup.
“These Web services are updated nightly, making them the most accurate and up–to–date resource of its kind for Residential, Business and Government listings,” said Richard Holcomb, Chairman and CEO of StrikeIron. “Now companies can improve their lead quality, enhance their customer data and integrate identity checking to prevent fraud into all their business applications in real–time and ondemand.”
With these services, developers and business users are able to take advantage of an easier and more cost–effective option for accessing and integrating real–time directory information to build on–demand applications. By completing partial information, these services improve the deliverability of postal mail and parcels, assist in the identification of address duplicates in databases and significantly lower the cost of direct marketing and CRM activities.
These three StrikeIron 24–hour Accurate Directory Information Premium Web Services provide:
- Comprehensive nationwide coverage (US and Puerto Rico)
- More than 1MM records updated nightly
- Residential, business and government listings
- A programmatic interface for managing your own internal customer lists.
Users can also integrate this data directly into Excel spreadsheets with the recently launched StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft Excel beta release. With StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Excel, users can now simply drag and drop Web services directly into their spreadsheets to build on–demand applications that take advantage of real–time data access. Working in their familiar spreadsheet environment, users can integrate the StrikeIron 24–hour Accurate Directory Information Premium Web Services for real–time data checking and verification as well as additional Web services for Do Not Call compliance, real–time financial data and much more.
The StrikeIron 24–hour Accurate Directory Information Premium Web Services are part of the growing StrikeIron WSBizNet focused on providing on–demand data access to improve business decision processes. Examples of additional Premium Web Services include D&B Business Information, Zacks, Financial Management Services, Do Not Call Lists, eMail and Address Verification. These Web services are included as part of the largest and fastest growing directory of publicly available Web services with over 1000 entries.
About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data
over the emerging Internet. The company’s innovative Web Services Marketplace
provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent
interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources.
This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT
professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional
external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.
Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business
functions from organizations such as Cortera, D&B, Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader,
Tax Data Systems, The Sports Network, and Zacks.
StrikeIron also offers IronCloud™, 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 and
complexity of managing the challenges of data distribution which include
leveraging an existing external hardware and software architecture, controlling
and metering access and usage, external monitoring for 24x7 reliability, full
usage analytics, as well as multiple authentication scenarios and instead
concentrate their focus on making information easier for partners, customers,
and distributed business units to access and use. StrikeIron delivers value to
over 1,500 customers and partners such as Avaya, BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda
Europe, D&B, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski, ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. For
more information, visit www.strikeiron.com.
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