StrikeIron Scores with the Addition of Live NCAA Men’s Basketball Data from
The Sports Network
Offering allows for the integration of live scores, news,
schedules, statistics, and injury information into any mashup, application,
device, or Web site.
Research Triangle Park, NC & Hatboro, PA - January 29, 2008 - StrikeIron
Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced it has
partnered with The Sports Network (TSN) to deliver information such as sports
scores, team and player statistics, schedules, live analysis and college
basketball news straight to any application, Web site, or device through its
Web Services Marketplace. The Sports Network is the nation’s foremost
international real-time sports wire service furnishing a multitude of content
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Offering our real-time sports data through StrikeIron’s Web Services
Marketplace provides a more customized platform, in a consistent format,
enveloped with other content services,” stated Ken Zajac, director of sales for
The Sports Network. “Sports Data is now included in the rich data available to
developers and programmers who can instantly integrate this data in
applications and Web sites.”
TSN’s Men’s College Basketball Web Service will be the first of many sports
offerings as a result of the partnership. Some of the key features of this
offering include:
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Comprehensive live data on NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball provided by The
Sports Network
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Accessibility to key NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball statistics, news, scores,
standings, injuries and poll data
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Drill down capabilities to track all data, by conference, team, or player
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Plug-and-play XML Web service makes it easy to integrate live college
basketball data into a broad range of applications and Web sites
For more on this service, please visit www.strikeiron.com/TSNMensCollegeBasketball.
“TSN provides an unprecedented amount of proprietary sports news, data and
statistics,” stated Bob Brauer, CEO and founder of StrikeIron. “This
partnership enables StrikeIron to continue to broaden the categories of live
data services that are offered. Adding sports data to our catalog of
easy-to-integrate data services creates the foundation for a whole new
generation of sports data-driven applications to be created, including mashups,
rich Internet applications, new Websites, mobile applications, and beyond."
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 Viacom Television Station Group, 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 is 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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