StrikeIron Jump-Starts 2008 with Multiple Industry Honors
StrikeIron establishes itself as a company to watch in 2008
Research Triangle Park, NC – January 15, 2008 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading
provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), kicks off 2008 with multiple industry
awards including:
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American Venture Magazine’s list of 2008’s Most Promising Start-ups
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CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors’ Choice Award
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Robin Bloor’s list of 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2008 and
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StrikeIron CEO and co-founder Bob Brauer named one of Business Leader
Magazine’s 24 Impact Entrepreneurs.
StrikeIron was one of 33 finalists selected from over 350
emerging companies that took part in the submission process for American Venture Magazine. Honorees were
chosen for the organization’s teamwork, vision, market leadership and
technological achievements. All winners were venture-funded and had the ability
to make crucial developments with energy and passion, under a focused
leadership and toward a common goal. American Venture Magazine is the nation’s
largest publication dedicated to the early-stage technology market. For
additional information visit:
www.americanventuremagazine.com/articles/850
CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise Web site announced its 2008 Editors’ Choice Award
winners with StrikeIron included among its 36 “Companies to Watch” in the
enterprise application category. Other companies honored include eBay, Google,
IBM. NetSuite, Salesforce.com, SAS,and TIBCO. CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise
winners demonstrated exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer
leadership in attaining strategic objectives. To learn more about this award,
please visit: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/information_management/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WJFYXSNU1EHPOQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=205207028
StrikeIron was also included in Robin Bloor’s list of “10 IT Companies to Watch
in 2008.” Bloor is a partner with Hurwitz & Associates, a business
consulting firm that researches market drivers, customer benefits and business
value in order to provide actionable strategic advice on product planning,
marketing and positioning. Bloor is also founder of Bloor Research and
co-author of “Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies.” To find out more
about the list, visit:
http://havemacwillblog.com/2008/01/06/10-it-companies-to-watch-in-2008/
In addition to StrikeIron’s corporate honors, CEO and co-founder, Bob Brauer,
was named one of Business Leader Magazine’s 24 Impact Entrepreneurs in the
upcoming January 2008 issue. This year, the publication received over 150
nominations. Winners were entrepreneurs who helped shape innovation in the
Triangle, region of North Carolina. For more, visit
www.businessleader.com
“These awards and honors serve as further proof that our teams hard work and
dedication to make StrikeIron a leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space is paying
off,” stated Bob Brauer, CEO and co-founder of StrikeIron. “It has and always
will be our goal to bring cutting-edge technology to the enterprise so we
couldn’t be more pleased to receive this kind of recognition.”
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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