StrikeIron Continues Momentum with Addition of a Dozen New Web Services
New services and over 340 new customers so far this year add
to exponential growth
Research Triangle Park, NC – August 23, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider of the Web Services
Marketplace, today announced the addition of 12 new commercial Web services available
in the StrikeIron Marketplace. These new offerings provide on-demand access to live data and functionality across a wide
range of business services, including business credit and fraud, weather,
commerce, business demographics and data quality. These Web services will be
available to both individual businesses and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
who wish to integrate them into their applications, websites, and business
processes. For example, live data from these services can be integrated into CRM systems or Web applications to allow
real-time access to the credit and business information of any company.
“Inaccurate and incomplete data can be costly and tedious to correct for millions of businesses, and even more
costly over time if left unaddressed,“ said Bob Brauer, president and
co-founder of StrikeIron. “By offering real-time access to multiple data
sources in a consistent, standardized way, we are able to help our customers
resolve these issues without the traditional integration costs of in-house
software, while simultaneously enabling a whole new class of real-time
applications.”
StrikeIron has continued to increase both the number of new publishers and
commercial Web services available in its Marketplace. In addition to these new
services, StrikeIron added over 340 new customers in the second quarter alone.
StrikeIron’s twelve new Web services include:
Barcode Reader – enables detection and decoding of barcodes from an
image file.
Business Verification – enables users to check a company and its
location with background information such as primary name, address, phone
number, SIC code, and branch indicator.
Business Credit Quick Check – allows users to perform low risk credit
assessments and pre-screen prospects with credit evaluation data.
Currency Rates – provides global currency rates for 115 major
currencies.
Geopoint - Utilizing business names, it provides access to rooftop geographic information (latitude and longitude coordinates) for
use in pinpointing business locations and as part of pre-screening marketing
and sales processes.
Geocoding – enables the ability to perform U.S. address-based geocoding.
Global Address Locator - provides corrections and proximity candidate
lists for international addresses.
Real Estate Amortization Calculator - calculates fixed rate
amortization data in a variety of formats.
Real Time Telephone Verification – enables real-time telephone number
verification.
Weather By City - retrieves the current day’s weather for any city.
World Business Demographics – allows users to gain real-time marketing
information about a potential prospect such as business name, address, fax,
phone and trade style.
ZIP Codes By Coordinates - locates ZIP Codes in a radius from given
coordinates or another ZIP code.
In addition, StrikeIron has created a library of sample Microsoft Excel
workbooks that demonstrate using the StrikeIron Web Services OnDemand for Excel
add-in to create “live” spreadsheets from multiple Web services without any
programming. These free Excel workbooks allow users to have easy, drag-and-drop
access to real-time data right on their desktop which can be customized or
combined with other data. This enables powerful spreadsheets to be created with
live data.
These services are all part of the growing StrikeIron Web Services
Marketplace, the world’s largest online marketplace dedicated to commercial Web
services. The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace brings together a community of
providers and users to buy and sell Web services subscriptions. Users who
subscribe through the StrikeIron Marketplace have instant access to a rich set
of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible choices of
protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, flexible
pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their
utilization of Web services.
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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