Magoo Software Integrates StrikeIron Web Services into SOA software
Allows developers to quickly and easily create XML
applications that connect to Web Services
Research Triangle Park, NC – July 11, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider of the
Web Services Marketplace, today announced that Magoo Software has integrated
access to StrikeIron’s Marketplace Web Services in their MagooClient. Using a
standard email interface, the MagooClient allows users to rapidly create Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) clients directly from Schema and WSDL definitions.
With the integration of StrikeIron’s Marketplace Web Services, users can create
sophisticated business logic applications that instantly connect to live data
and functionality provided by StrikeIron’s 80+ Web services.
As an example, ecommerce users can quickly create an active form for data
entry which reacts in real-time to data input. With the addition of StrikeIron
Web services, users can automatically check the contact phone number against any
address, validate and enhance any address and append tax information to an
ecommerce order.
“In today’s loosely-coupled, service-oriented architectures, users want to go
beyond simple editing to build client-side logic which helps them work more
effectively with Web Services and XML content,” said John McGuire, CEO at Magoo
Software. “Adding StrikeIron’s Web Services to MagooClient allows users to
participate in XML-based business processes, opening a whole range of user tasks
available with very little programming.”
The MagooClient allows Web Services invocations to be easily added to provide
dynamic form-filling and data validation. The standard email interface allows
for review, validation, and editing of messages as well as providing exception
handling. With the integration of the StrikeIron Marketplace Web services users
will also be able to easily connect to a wide range of functionality from
services such as 24-Hour Accurate Reverse Phone Lookup, Global SMS Messaging, U.S.
Address Verification, Sales and Use Tax Complete and Real-time Stock Quotes.
"XML has gained huge momentum as the basis for data exchange in the context
of business processes,” said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of StrikeIron.
“MagooClient can automatically render and validate XML messages thereby allowing
even non-technical users to harness the full power of XML schema to modify
documents as they pass through a business process. This, combined with
StrikeIron’s Web Services, removes the need for time-consuming and expensive
development of user client applications and complements the flexible nature of
today’s Service Oriented Architectures.”
About Magoo Software
Based in London, UK, Magoo Software provides technology to allow user
interaction to be quickly and easily added to Service Oriented Architectures.
For further information on Magoo Software and MagooClient please see: http://www.magoosoft.com/pdf/StrikeIron.pdf.
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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John McGuire
Magoo Software
+44 (0)20 7985 0648
john.mcguire@magoosoft.com