Pizza Pilot Integrates StrikeIron’s Address Verification Service into Point
of Sale Solution
A slice of StrikeIron Web services is the perfect ingredient
to improve pizza delivery times up to 20%
Research Triangle Park, NC – October 24, 2006 - StrikeIron Inc., provider of
the Web Services Marketplace, today announced that Pizza Pilot is improving
pizza delivery times with the help of StrikeIron’s Address Verification Web
Service. While cold pizza for breakfast may be the norm in college, the typical
pizza business depends on getting the freshest, hottest pizza to the right
address in the fastest possible time. And with gas prices rising daily, they
can’t afford to have employees lost on a delivery route or delayed getting back
to deliver the next order.
Pizza Pilot is not only working to improve the quality of order-taking, but
also getting the pizza in the hands of customers faster, enhancing customer
satisfaction. “We focus on the entire process,” says Bob Antonellis, founder and
president of Pizza Pilot. “By monitoring hundreds of activities and ensuring
delivery addresses are 100% accurate we can improve delivery times by as much as
12 minutes.”
Pizza Pilot uses GPS to track every driver. It links to its Point of Sale
(POS) to track all in-store activity, from order-taking to delivery to tracking
drivers returning to the store. To get the best possible results, Pizza Pilot
not only needed the most accurate GPS location tool, but the most up-to-date
address validation technology. They use Microsoft’s MapPoint to plot addresses,
but often find they need to augment the address verification capabilities for
the best results and to provide every customer with first class support. There’s
no room for relying on manually-entered address locations or an employee making
an address input mistake.
The company also did not want the hassle and risk of updating and
verifying the address reference database connecting to the GPS system on a
monthly basis that most traditional address verification systems require. So,
they looked for a solution that they could connect to once, and be integrated
permanently.
Pizza Pilot chose StrikeIron’s pioneering US Address Verification Web Service
to ensure that order takers never take down a bad address and drivers never
waste precious time tracking down delivery locations. The Web service inspects
every element of an address to ensure its validity and, using sophisticated
matching and data standardization technology, updates incorrect or incomplete
address information prior to delivery.
The enhanced contact information is delivered live from StrikeIron via an
XML–based Web service. Because the service is delivered over the Web utilizing
XML-based standards, the address reference data never has to be re-imported,
updated and reloaded. StrikeIron takes care of the updates at its central data
center and feeds the data live over the Web--directly into Pizza Pilot’s
delivery management system. For more information, visit StrikeIron Address Verification.
During 16 months of in-store testing at several Dominos franchisees, Pizza
Pilot was successful in improving driver productivity up to 20%, reducing labor,
mileage theft and lost drivers while improving delivery times by 5-12 minutes.
“StrikeIron’s Web Services allow Pizza Pilot to focus on improving their
business processes,” said Bob Brauer, president and CEO of StrikeIron. “In turn,
pizza stores can focus on their business of making pizza, managing people, and
servicing customers rather than IT infrastructure and maintaining data updates.
It’s a winning situation for all players.”
About Pizza Pilot
Pizza Pilot is a software-based service that works
with any POS and utilizes standard mobile GPS cell phones from Sprint/Nextel.
Pizza Pilot’s mapping software determines optimal dispatching and automatically
assigns orders to drivers-allowing managers to focus on inside operations. For
more information, visit
www.pizzapilot.com
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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Media Relations for Pizza Pilot
Steve Antonellis
Pizza Pilot
(781) 424-3387
steve@pizzapilot.com