BRIDGEWERX and StrikeIron Partner for Delivery of Integration as a
Service
BRIDGEWERX to Leverage StrikeIron Web services Marketplace;
StrikeIron to Integrate Various Web services via BRIDGEWERX Integration
Appliance
Reston, VA. and Research Triangle Park, NC (January 31, 2006) – BRIDGEWERX,
the only company providing integration Software as a Service (SaaS) with
deployment to an appliance for service providers, Web services marketplaces, and
small and medium size businesses (SMB), today announced a strategic alliance
with StrikeIron® Inc., the worldwide leader of Web services commercialization
through the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace.
This agreement allows StrikeIron to leverage the BRIDGEWERX Integration
Appliance as a method of integrating its various Web services and for BRIDGEWERX
to access the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace as a way to enhance the
Software as a Service (SaaS) portion of the BRIDGEWERX Integration solution.
“The combined solutions of BRIDGEWERX and StrikeIron provide extended value
by enabling an SOA integration platform with the ability to leverage powerful
web services both inside and outside the enterprise,” said David S. Linthicum,
CEO for BRIDGEWERX. “Together, we will deliver a flexible, agile, easily
deployed and affordable SOA platform to on-demand customers and their
end-users.”
StrikeIron is the leader in the commercialization of web services through the
StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, which is available as part of the
StrikeIron Web Services Business Network. It provides a complete self-publishing
capability for providers and a consistent and simplified authentication,
subscription, and management capability for users, enabling access to multiple
Web services from multiple vendors in a consistent way.
“We are pleased to announce this partnership with BRIDGEWERX because of our
joint commitment to bring real-time, on-demand integration solutions to
businesses of all sizes,” said Bob Brauer, president and CEO of StrikeIron. “Our
diverse library of Web services combined with the BRIDGEWERX on-demand
integration model allows for fast and affordable integration of leading software
service providers and best-of-breed applications with existing systems.”
BRIDGEWERX is using the StrikeIron Marketplace API which was also announced
today. The API provides an integrated Web service interface allowing ISV
partners to quickly and easily provide additional functionality and live data
into their applications. Customers can seamlessly connect
to Web services without ever leaving their application.
BRIDGEWERX delivers both an on-demand product and an appliance for runtime
deployment. Built from the ground up to support service provider applications,
BRIDGEWERX serves as the SOA mediation platform between today’s Web
services-enabled, hosted applications, your existing legacy systems, and your
trading partners. BRIDGEWERX products give special consideration to
connectivity, interoperability, security, and shared processes. These new
products are designed to join existing enterprises to the Web 2.0.
About BRIDGEWERX
BRIDGEWERX is the first company to focus exclusively on providing fast and
affordable integration solutions for service providers and small and
medium-sized business (SMB). The BRIDGEWERX On-Demand Integrator for service
providers and the BRIDGEWERX Business Integrator for SMBs supports a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is architected specifically to connect
popular mid-market applications and those offered by on-demand service
providers. Time and costs using BRIDGEWERX for a typical integration project are
up to 85 percent less than the costs using traditional methods. To learn more
about why BRIDGEWERX is the new standard for service provider and SMB
application integration, please visit www.bridgewerx.com. BRIDGEWERX is a division of 5by5 Software
Ventures Ltd.
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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David Linthicum
BRIDGEWERX
(403) 290-1406
david@bridgewerx.com