StrikeIron Adds New Financial Web Services from Wall Street Horizon
Company earnings and current as well as historical interest rates now available
Research Triangle Park, NC – January 8, 2008 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced that Wall Street Horizon’s highly acclaimed Corporate Events Calendars, Real-Time Company Earnings Reports, and Wall Street Horizon Interest Rate Calendar Web Service have been added to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace.
These services join the hundred other services StrikeIron offers to use now, integrate into applications or build into Web sites including high-quality business and financial data services from providers such as D&B, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, and Zacks. In a recent survey conducted by StrikeIron, over 65 percent of respondents listed “quality of available data” and “relevancy of available data” as the critical challenges they faced when integrating external data with internal mashups, applications and web sites.
Wall Street Horizon specializes in providing clients with multiple ways to receive information about impending corporate financial events. Their massive database currently boasts coverage of over 5,000 U.S. public companies. The data is gathered directly by trained analysts who speak directly with the companies tracked. In addition, their QA process monitors corporate web sites for daily omissions, deletions, and changes. Their unique combination of high-touch and high-tech data collection methods provides users with the most accurate and current calendar information available for the market today.
“Content and its effective distribution and availability are critical to any investor," said Barry L. Star, Managing Director of Wall Street Horizon. "We are excited about offering our services through the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, allowing users to develop new and innovative solutions that will support the new ways clients conduct their business.”
Wall Street Horizon Corporate Earnings Calendars
Gives users access to comprehensive earning calendars providing earnings announcements, investor conference call dates and times, dividend announcements, and split announcements to track and evaluate over 5,000 U.S. public companies. Data reported includes:
- Quarterly Earnings Announcements Dates and Times
- Investor Conference Calls
- Dividend Announcements
- Stock Split Announcements
- Board of Directors Scheduled Meetings
- A real-time list of the day’s scheduled and actual earnings releases, including times
- earnings per share (EPS) estimates and actuals as reported
- URL links to the underlying press releases
Wall Street Horizon Interest Rate Calendar
Allows users access to current daily and 52 week historical averages for a wide variety of interest rates. Data reported includes:
- Current interest rate information for mortgage rates with points and average rates including 30 year fixed rates, 15 year fixed rates, and five year adjustable rates with points.
- Consumer Loan rate information for Home Equity Line of Credit, Credit Card averages rates, and New and Used Car loans
- Historical interest rate calendar information for 52 weeks
“Wall Street Horizon is a respected leader in the financial calendars industry. We believe that their partnership with StrikeIron’s strengthens the comprehensive real-time financial data companies can now access to integrate into business applications, Web sites and enterprise mashups”, said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of StrikeIron. “We look forward to helping our customers meet ambitious business and financial goals across both the front and back offices with our services."
About Wall Street Horizon
Headquartered in Boston, Wall Street Horizon offers a comprehensive, highly accurate database of detailed U.S. corporate calendar dates -- earnings release dates, conference calls, ex-dividend dates, meeting dates, and other critical information that has direct impact on a company's stock price. The Company has created a proprietary business process for collecting, storing, analyzing, and verifying such corporate information. The Company’s clients include some of the largest firms on Wall Street. For more information, visit
www.wallstreethorizon.com.
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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