StrikeIron Continues to Expand Web Services Marketplace by Adding New Financial Data Services
On-Demand Integration of financial news and historical stock options data available for rapid deployment into Web sites and business applications
Research Triangle Park, NC – September 18, 2007 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced the addition of two new Financial data services to its expanding Web Services Marketplace: Midnight Trader Financial News Service and Historical Stock Options Data. StrikeIron Web Services make it easy for business analysts, active retail and institutional equity traders to use real-time and historical information necessary to make the most informed investment decisions before the open and after the close each day. Enterprises can now access this data as a service and dramatically reduce the time to integrate this information directly into any application, platform, product or Web site. These web services join other high-quality financial data services offered on the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace from providers such as D&B, Zacks, MapQuest, Cdyne, Xignite, YP.com and IDExec.
Midnight Trader is the premier source of real time pre-market and after-hours US equity trading analysis, news and information. The Midnight Trader Financial News Web Service (http://www.strikeiron.com/ProductDetail.aspx?p=371) provides on demand access to a wide array of real-time and historical stock news, research and historical event reaction information related to the U.S. stock market. This new service offers customers a convenient gateway to stock research and up-to-the minute alerts with a special emphasis on extended-hours trading activity. Investors typically use Real-time market news and historical analysis of corporate announcements (e.g., earnings, analyst upgrades and downgrades, etc.) to provides insight into what is likely to have an effect on the current and future trading price of a company’s stock.
“Users can now integrate Financial News directly into internal applications to help with their investment decisions. This news can be mashed up with other financial information to give a comprehensive picture of their investment portfolio,” said Brooks McFeely, CEO of Midnight Trader. “By offering our data on StrikeIron’s Web Services Marketplace we are able to extend our reach to a broader audience and allow anyone access to financial data programmatically.”
In addition, the Historic Stock Option Data Web Service (http://www.strikeiron.com/ProductDetail.aspx?p=372) will provide historical end–of–day data for U.S. options. This service will allow users to enter a date, or date range, and an option symbol to receive end of day data for U.S. stock options including last, bid, ask volume and open interest.
“Adding these two rich Web services to our existing arsenal of easy-access live data provides the fuel for the creators of the latest Web 2.0 applications.” said Bob Brauer, CEO and founder of StrikeIron. “Live feeds of financial data can be used in a broad array of applications, including real-time financial analysis, just-in-time composite applications and mashups, dynamic Websites, and even CRM,”
The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace offers over 100 data services for the ecommerce, Finance, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Quality and Business Intelligence markets. With the addition of these financial services, StrikeIron customers can now find the data they need in a single location to easily create enterprise mashups with the hundreds of other services available from StrikeIron or with internal data readily available in the enterprise.
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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