StrikeIron Hits Home Run with Major League Baseball Data from The Sports Network
Baseball Web Service
API provides the highest quality data for easy integration into Web 2.0
applications and Web sites
Research Triangle Park, NC - March 11, 2008 - StrikeIron Inc., the leading
provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced it has extended its
sports offering with the addition of Major League Baseball (MLB) data from The
Sports Network (TSN). The TSN Major League Baseball Web Service enables users
to acquire up-to-date information on America’s favorite pastime including
league, team and individual player coverage via an easy-to-integrate Web
Services/XML API. The Sports Network is the nation’s foremost international
real-time sports wire service and the leader in providing complete sports data.
“Baseball is a sport driven by stats, scores and summaries,” stated Ken Zajac, director
of sales for The Sports Network. “StrikeIron gives fans the ability to rapidly
develop social applications, mobile alerts and much more to create new, innovative experiences for the Web 2.0 fan.”
TSN’s Major League Baseball Web Service is the second of many sports offerings
to come through StrikeIron’s Marketplace. Some of the key features of this
offering include:
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Accessibility to a broad array of statistical categories for both pitching and
batting
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Cumulative statistics by individual players for all key categories
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Real-time sports data news and scores with batter-by-batter updates every sixty
seconds
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Drill down capabilities to track data by player, team or league
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Delivery of data through an easy-to-use XML format that can easily integrate
into widgets, badges, gadgets, Web applications and mashups.
For more on this service, please visit: www.strikeiron.com/TSNMLB
“Providing real-time sports data is just another example of the power of our
platform. Just about any data source can be aggregated and provided as an
easy-to-integrate data service that will in turn drive a whole new category of
innovation,” stated Bob Brauer, CEO and founder of StrikeIron. “We’re excited
to deliver yet another data source to a whole new audience who can develop new
ways to monetize it with social applications, widgets and fan-driven Web sites
as examples.”
About The Sports Network
The Sports network is the nation’s foremost international real-time sports wire
service furnishing a plethora of content on a 24/7 basis using state-of-the-art
technology. TSN’s website, www.sportsnetwork.com contains voluminous
proprietary sports news data that includes, but is not limited to, scores,
trends, analysis, news, features, statistics, pre and post-game reports, box
scores, historical data and much more. Among its clients are Bresnan
Communications, EarthLink, Google, Cablevision, Tribune Interactive, McClatchy,
Lexis*Nexis, Westwood One, New York Times, New York Daily News, Denver Post,
Detroit News Learfield Communications, Media News, Metro Source, Comtex and
hundreds more.
www.sportsnetwork.com
consistently ranked as one of the more prominent sports sites on the Internet.
TSN currently brands sports pages for sites numbering in excess of 500 while
furnishing satellite transmitted data and online transmission to a host of
organizations domestically and internationally.
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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