Solution offers one-stop integration of Commercial Web Services for real-time data access and development of on-demand applications
Research Triangle Park, NC – October 4, 2005 – StrikeIron® Inc., the worldwide leader of Web services commercialization through the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network™ (WSBizNet™), today announced the StrikeIron ISV Marketplace Integration program for Independent Software Vendors and Solution Providers. As part of this program, StrikeIron is providing a StrikeIron Marketplace Integration Web Service that allows plug and play access to the StrikeIron Marketplace API directly into their applications.
ISVs and Solution Providers now have a way to easily integrate commercial Web services into their applications to provide new value with real-time external data access and functionality. This is an ideal solution for the integration of live data directly into real-time business processes to increase productivity and lower costs. For example, Web services can be used in CRM applications to implement live data feeds and thus eliminate the time consuming, costly and error prone methods of bulk data importing, exporting and cleanup.
“The StrikeIron Marketplace is a perfect complement to mWorks, our mobile application development platform,” said Rodney Aiglstorfer, CTO and Co-Founder of mFoundry. “With the StrikeIron Marketplace, we are giving our developers access to a broad range of commercial Web services that can be quickly and easily incorporated into mobile applications. Our partnership with StrikeIron adds great value to our platform.”
”StrikeIron has eliminated many of the barriers and costs to integrating multiple Web services into external applications,” said Bob Brauer, President and co-founder of StrikeIron. “Now anyone can easily leverage StrikeIron’s sophisticated Web services commercialization platform and take advantage of all the subscription, billing, accounting, and tracking for micro–transaction usage.”
Program Benefits:
- Instant access to all of the StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services with the broadest spectrum of industry coverage available in the market.
- Increased revenue opportunities by getting paid on consumption of these Web services.
- Transparent choice of protocol to best fit development requirements (REST, SOAP, HTTPS).
- Eliminates ISV infrastructure investment with StrikeIron handling all of the registration, subscription, billing, payment and account management.
- Faster time to market with experienced development and support services.
- Flexibility to fit application integration requirements.
Examples of ISVs currently integrating StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services:
CRMFusion – (www.crmfusion.com) is a data cleansing and integration vendor focused on on-demand technologies. They have integrated several StrikeIron cleansing and verification Web services into their salesforce.com solution, demonstrating it at DreamForce 2005.
DreamFactory – (www.dreamfactory.com) enables the creation of a new class of on-demand “Super Apps” that are rapidly assembled from standards-based service components and deployed with a rich user experience. They are integrating the StrikeIron Marketplace in to their RAD environment.
GridScope – (www.gridscope.com) provides a simple, platform independent solution for federated management of Web services that underlie enterprise-critical business processes. They are integrating the StrikeIron Global Directory of Marketplace Web Services into the GridScope Service Management solution suite.
InfoWinner – (www.infowinner.nl) integrates CRM-related Web services into Outlook, Act, and Goldmine for both U.S. & European customers. They are integrating the StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services into their platform.
mFoundry –(www.mfoundry.com) mFoundry is a leading mobile application platform provider and publisher. They are integrating the StrikeIron Marketplace directory of services into their platform, mWorks, which enables anyone with basic HTML skills to create mobile applications.
Ratchetsoft – (www.ratchetsoft.com) Via the power of web services, Ratchet-X allows users to add new capabilities to any application without having to modify the application in any way. In October, RatchetSoft will be releasing its first set of pre-configured application extensions called "Contact Xtend". Contact Xtend will allow users to incorporate Do Not Call, reverse phone look-up and address and email verification functionality into any application.
Solica – (www.solica.com) Solica’s mission is to configure, install and support CRM systems for customers in all sectors. They have integrated the National Do Not Call List into their Goldmine add-on. They are currently working on adding several more to all of the CRM products they support.
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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