StrikeIron and O’Reilly Media Announce Winner of Mashup Contest at ETel
After Hours Doctor’s Office shows potential for savings in healthcare visits
Research Triangle Park, NC – March 6, 2007 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of live data and business functionality over the web and O’Reilly Media, Inc. announced the winner of the first ever Telephony Mashup Contest that took place during the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference (ETel). The winning entry was After Hours Doctor’s Office, a mashup created by Thomas Howe Consulting, transcribes voicemail into text and sends SMS to doctors. RoboCal from Ted Gilchrist of Botcast Network placed second and FishLign from Claire Umeda and Dharmesh Desai of Lignup placed third.
The contest provided a stage for developers to demonstrate their creative skills using emerging telephony technologies such as VoiceXML, SIP phones, VoIP, hosted PBX & IVR services, and Web services. StrikeIron, O’Reilly, Tellme Networks, Inc. and Sylantro sponsored the contest, with winners splitting $3,000 in prizes. For a complete list of winners and finalists, visit www.strikeiron.com/developers/contest_finalists.aspx.
After Hours Doctor’s Office tries to solve the problem faced by all healthcare providers—that of unnecessary visits to the ER. “Research shows that over 50 percent of the 90 million visits to emergency rooms were unnecessary,” said mashup contest winner Thomas Howe. “In healthcare dollars, that means that 40.5 million people paid up to three times as much for routine care at the ER as they would have paid at a physician’s office. AfterHoursDoctorOffice hopes to eliminate some of these unnecessary trips to the ER by providing a service between doctors and patients for after hours care.”
The mashup was built using Tellme‘s VoiceXML platform for the inbound call, the outbound status messages and to record and post the patient voice message; StrikeIron Global SMS for the text messaging between patient, nurse and doctor; and Amazon Web Services to setup the bank of nurses making determinations of urgency, and to transcribe the original voicemail by the patient for the permanent medical record. The entire application was built in just 40 hours. For more on this mashup and to view a demo, visit http://www.thomashowe.com.
“Enterprise mashups are coming of age as developers realize the amount of live data that is available over the Web,” said Bob Brauer, president and CEO of StrikeIron. “The mashups presented at ETel are just the beginning of what companies will start to see as developers combine information from Web services, messaging systems, internal business intelligence applications and external data sources to deliver real value. Congratulations to all the mashup developers on their innovative ideas.”
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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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About Tellme
Tellme improves how people use their phone to search for everyday answers –
from finding a business, getting a sports score or hearing the latest weather
update. By bringing voice access to Internet information, Tellme is making it
quick and easy to find what you need when you’re on-the-go.
Today the company powers hundreds of phone services used by more than 40
million people every month. In addition to providing a consumer mobile search
service, Tellme also uses it’s platform to power phone applications such as
directory assistance (411) for Cingular and Verizon, customer service for
Merrill Lynch, E*TRADE Financial and American Airlines, and e-commerce services
for Amazon.com and Fandango. Tellme is headquartered in Mountain View,
California.
About Sylantro
Sylantro Systems provides the premier software platform
for business, consumer, and mobile hosted VoIP solutions. Sylantro allows
network operators to rapidly deliver high value, high margin managed telephony
services without the cost and complexity of today's in house PBX and key
systems, giving users new flexibility in their communication services. Sylantro
customers include AT&T, Bandwidth.com, China Netcom, China Unicom, Covad,
StarHub, SunRocket, and Swisscom.