StrikeIron Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor" report are
innovative, impactful and intriguing
Research Triangle Park, NC – April 19, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider of
the Web Services Marketplace, today announced it has been included in the “Cool
Vendors in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006” report, written by
L. Frank Kenney, Research Director and Benoit J. Lheureux, Research Director.
According to the Gartner, Inc., report, “Mainstream companies are beginning
to take advantage of the fact that business-to-business (B2B) deployments often
quickly show value and high return on investment. Many large vendors and service
providers in this market are experiencing 5 to 15 percent growth year-over-year.
They are using the newest innovative technologies, methodologies and
architectural best practices, including Web-inspired technology, methodologies
and architectural best practices such as service-oriented architecture,
appliances and complex, but easy-to-use, user interfaces for administration and
maintenance. Growth is not just about technology; it’s also about business
strategy and the opportunities such as using technologies to help companies
comply with industry, government and corporate mandates.”
"We are excited to have been highlighted in such a prestigious report,” said
StrikeIron CEO and President Bob Brauer. “The software development world is
changing as SOA and SaaS are evolving as the new standard for how developers
deliver data, applications and services. This new development paradigm shift is
being fueled by the Programmable Web. And by allowing potentially millions of
business users and non-developers to take advantage of Web services and by
significantly accelerating application development, we believe StrikeIron is
fundamentally changing the way the world works with Web services.”
The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace allows users to easily enhance the
capabilities and value of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments,
increase ROI with CRM investments, improve data quality and data value, and
expand the functionality of Ecommerce applications by integrating real-time
external customer, company, and government data. Examples include real-time
address verification, email verification, 24-hour accurate reverse phone lookup,
an executive decision-makers database, state and local tax rates, global SMS
capabilities, residential and business data enhancement lookups and much more.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does
not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but
rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors,
products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied,
with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or
fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that
offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things
they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not
just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's
interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
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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