March 2007: Data as a Service
Quote of the Month
“… Verifying data is a real challenge for time
crunched retailers. From updating tax and currency exchange rates to ensuring
addresses are written correctly, mistakes can be costly and cumbersome. Dave
Nielsen of data as a service provider StrikeIron sits down with host Dave Olson
at Etail West in Palm Desert California to talk about delivering all sorts of
data as a service to save time and increase accuracy.… ”
–
Dave Olson, Get Elastic
Note from the President
What’s New at StrikeIron?
What Can StrikeIron Do For You?
What’s New in Web Services?
Note from the President: DaaS ist Gut!
We are all very well aware of "Software as a Service" (SaaS) and the many benefits it provides such as significantly reduced hardware, storage, software, and IT staffing requirements; quicker upgrades, flexibility of deployment, accessibility, and greater independence from IT. These benefits are now proven and SaaS adoption continues to grow at a steady rate, including larger and larger mainstream implementations.
With the emergence of Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and standards-based Web services, all of these same principles apply to
the concept of "Data as a Service" (DaaS). With DaaS, the more specific benefits include; less reliance on database software, fewer data storage requirements, less data redundancy, more accurate data, fewer DBA's, zero data maintenance requirements, and a greater stream of easily integrated data points to drive business intelligence applications, therefore making more effective decision-making.
As IT organizations begin to adopt a DaaS model, this will cause us to rethink the universe of possible applications and will again launch another wave of creativity and innovation that leverages these benefits. This begins to overlap with some of the enterprise notions of Web 2.0 where the Web itself can become the ultimate SOA, delivering data when and where it is needed to and from multiple data providers and consumers.
StrikeIron is proud to be one of the leading companies laying the groundwork for these concepts.
Bob Brauer
President and CEO, StrikeIron
What’s New at StrikeIron?
Visit StrikeIron at Web 2.0 April 15-18 in San
Francisco
StrikeIron will be in booth 435 at the Moscone Center at
the Web 2.0 conference. For more on the show, please visit <web2.0>.
StrikeIron Secures $5MM in Funding
Ascent
Venture Partners Leads Series C Financing to Drive Future Growth and Widespread
Market Adoption. <funding>
StrikeIron and O’Reilly Media Announce Winner of Mashup
Contest at ETel
After Hours Doctor’s Office shows potential for
savings in healthcare visits. <winner>
StrikeIron is hiring!
Join our team as
StrikeIron continues to lead the industry in Data as a Service. Visit our career
page to see our openings in Development, Sales and Support! <careers>
What Can StrikeIron Do For You?
Delivering Data as a Service - Get
Elastic
StrikeIron’s Dave Nielsen sits down with host Dave Olson in
this podcast talking about delivering data as a service to save time and
increase accuracy. <podcast>
New Cynergy Mashup using ESRI, StrikeIron and OpenKapow
This latest mashup from our favorite mashup-maker Andrew Trice is
an extension of his Census Mashup, using ESRI's Flex 2 mapping component (alpha
version) and StrikeIron's US Census. For more details, visit <mashup>.
What’s New in Web Services?
StrikeIron Global Address Verification
v4.0
Instantly validate and enhance contact information for any
global address. <Global
Address>
Looking for Sample code? Try some of these newly added
samples
StrikeIron constantly adds new sample code to the Developers
Support area of our Web site. See some of our latest samples: