StrikeIron Launches Developer Community
Collaborative environment for Data as a Service application development and support
Research Triangle Park, NC – October 16, 2007 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today announced the launch of the Development Community to enable developers to share and collaborate as they build business applications, Web sites and mashups using StrikeIron’s Web Services. The goal of the Community is to easily allow developers to utilize StrikeIron’s ground-breaking technology to develop exciting applications and innovative ways of enriching SOA applications through StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services. For more on this site, visit developer.strikeiron.com.
The StrikeIron Developer Community is for partners, business users, developers, solution providers and system integrators. From this website users can access and use to following components:
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Developer Forum for posting and researching any issues with StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services
- Links to sample code and support for Partners such as IBM, Salesforce.com, Sun NetBeans, Visual Studio, and Zend
- Videos and Tutorials for integrating StrikeIron Web Services into various applications
- Sample Code and Clients for developing in C#, Cold Fusion, Delphi 2005, Adobe Flex, J2EE, Java Axis, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Visual Basic .NET and more
- Technical Documentation How To Guides
- Downloads for tools, widgets and code for fast, frictionless access to StrikeIron data
- Collaborative Framework for submitting code, mashups and applications that can be shared amongst the development community
"Our partners and customers continue to identify a wide range of applications that can benefit from quality data through the StrikeIron Marketplace," said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of StrikeIron. "By providing free tools and support to developers, we're helping to accelerate Data as a Service. We’re excited to expand our commitment to the SOA development community by providing partners and developers with the easiest and most cost-effective technology available for building rich internet applications, enterprise mashups and enriched Web sites.”
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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