StrikeIron and Xignite Expand Partnership to Resell StrikeIron’s OnDemand Web Services for Excel
Leading provider of financial web services to offer live data in Excel
Research Triangle Park, NC – September 12, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider
of the Web Services Marketplace, today announced that it has partnered with
Xignite who will resell StrikeIron’s OnDemand Web Services for Excel. As part of the
agreement, Xignite will use this Microsoft Office add-in to create live
customizable Excel workbooks connecting to Xignite Financial Web services. These
workbooks will be available to integrate with any financial or Web application
in order to build customized, real-time applications quickly and
cost-efficiently. In addition, the OnDemand Web Services for Excel workbooks
will enable users to create compelling Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA)-driven applications to leverage the existing investments organizations are
making in SOA infrastructure technology.
The agreement expands the scope of an existing two-year old partnership
between the two companies that has seen them serve dozens of joint customers.
Many of Xignite’s more than 35 financial Web services are being distributed via
the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace. Xignite is the industry’s largest provider of
pure-play financial Web services for mission-critical corporate applications.
The company offers the broadest, most comprehensive suite of financial data and
components available on an on-demand platform.
StrikeIron OnDemand for Excel provides Microsoft Excel users with
drag-and-drop access to the power of XML-based Web services, delivering “live”
workbooks to the desktop that are fed by real-time data. Any subscriber of one
or more Web services from Xignite can build rich-client spreadsheets that
incorporate live data feeds from multiple sources without any programming. As a
result, Excel becomes a rich, universal client for service-oriented
architectures and a tool for building composite, services-driven applications. For more information, visit OnDemand Web Services for Excel.
“StrikeIron is very pleased to extend StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for
Excel to the vast network of Financial Web Services users that are part of
Xignite’s network," said Bob Brauer, President and CEO of StrikeIron. “Enabling
live financial data into any application utilizing the same easy, consistent
interface makes it much easier to integrate into many different classes of
applications. This will broadly increase the universe of users that can now
leverage the financial Web services available from Xignite.”
"StrikeIron's OnDemand solution complements and extends the value of our web
services for the benefit of our common customers," said Stephane Dubois, CEO of
Xignite. "As the market for pure-play web services matures, end users
increasingly want to access them directly. This expanded agreement gives users
access to live data straight from their preferred spreadsheet application. They
can do their jobs better and more quickly by combining the power of Excel with
the accuracy and immediacy of our data. Plus, Xignite's open distribution model
lets them subscribe only to the services they need."
About Xignite
Xignite (pronounced “X-Ignite”) is the largest provider of pure play
financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications. As a pioneer
in the field, Xignite offers the broadest suite of financial data and components
available today on an on-demand platform. Xignite powers mission-critical
applications for portfolio management, sales management, ERP, trading, investor
relations, customer portals, executive dashboards, analytical engines and more.
Xignite serves software developers who procure financial web services and
currently enjoys 200 direct and reseller customers including Ameriquest, GE
Commercial Finance, Goodyear, ING, McDonald’s, Marsh & McLennan, Starbucks,
Wendy’s, SAP, Tibco, and Research In Motion. For more information, please visit
www.xignite.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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