StrikeIron Expands Web Services Pricing Options with One-Time Purchase
Model
Flexible pricing model enables live data updates for any
on-demand application
Research Triangle Park, NC – March 21, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider of
the Web Services Marketplace, today announced the expansion of available pricing
options with the addition of One-time purchase, enabling users of its diverse
library of Web services to purchase a single amount of transactions to go along
with its current monthly and annual subscription models. The StrikeIron Web
Services Marketplace allows developers and ISVs to integrate Web services into
their on-demand applications, websites, smart clients, and other rich-client
applications. Users who subscribe through the Marketplace have instant access to
a rich set of functionality and live data and can take advantage of simple
purchasing, account management, billing, payment, security and usage tracking at
the micro-transaction level consistently across multiple Web services. For
example, this pricing option enables developers and ISVs to provide one-time
data cleansing and enrichment of their databases.
A typical customer would purchase this option to use StrikeIron’s U.S. Address
Verification Web Service that is integrated within CRMfusion’s DemandTools for
Salesforce.com and currently available on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. The
tight integration with DemandTools allows for U.S. and Canadian address
verification as well as advanced post verification actions such as removing
addresses from salesforce.com, creating a task for the record owner in case of
bad addresses and creating events for the records that verified correctly. Upon
completion of their integration and a one-time cleansing of their Salesforce.com
customer database, they would then upgrade to an ongoing, on-demand subscription
to this service.
“StrikeIron’s Web Services Commerce platform enables business to be
transacted on the Programmable Web,” said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of
StrikeIron. “We’ve always offered real-time, on-demand solutions and after
listening carefully to our customers we have responded with additional pricing
flexibility to meet their needs. We are committed to adding more functionality
and features to the Marketplace as it continues on its explosive growth path.”
The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace allows users to easily enhance the
capabilities and value of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments,
increase ROI with CRM investments, improve data quality and data value, and
expand the functionality of Ecommerce applications by integrating real-time
external customer, company, and government data. Examples include real-time
address verification, email verification, 24-hour accurate reverse phone lookup,
an executive decision-makers database, state and local tax rates, global SMS
capabilities, residential and business data enhancement lookups and much more.
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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