March 2008: SaaS Proof of Concept
Quote of the Month
“Like many companies, Shaklee found their aging systems in need of replacement but found the cost of doing so high enough to consider
alternatives. Shaklee's first SAAS venture was a simple address verification application from StrikeIron. The application was brought in
to help Shaklee clean up the addresses in its database and was also intended as a SAAS proof-of-concept."
--eWeek
Shaklee Cleans up with SaaS
Note from the President
What's New at StrikeIron
What's New in Web Services?
StrikeIron in the News:
StrikeIron Events:
Note from the President: StrikeIron’s “Ironclad” Architecture
Since 2003, StrikeIron has continuously innovated and invested in its
Web Services infrastructure in order to provide a state-of-the-art
backbone to deliver 24x7, high-performance, trusted, and reliable Web
services to its worldwide customer base 365 days a year.
Within a SAS-70 certified data center, StrikeIron utilizes redundant
electrical systems, sophisticated air conditioning technology, redundant
premium hardware, load-balancing technology for optimized performance and
failover, remote monitoring agents, backup data centers, 24x7 operations
staff, performance and uptime dashboard monitoring, a mobile warning
alert notification system, and a highly engineered proprietary Web
services delivery platform to achieve its vision of the “great Web
services and external data cloud.” This advanced technology enables
StrikeIron to deliver an external data and Web services solution via the
Internet that our customers and partners can rely on, so they can focus
their efforts on innovating with their own businesses. We are continuing
this innovation and investment with several new enhancements coming over
the next several months.
So whether it’s real-time financial data, address corrections, tax rates,
maps, news, baseball scores, business demographics, SMS sending, text to
voice notifications, weather data, or any other type of data or Web
service accessible from over 120 different StrikeIron Web services, you
can rest assured a state-of-the-art, secure, reliable system is standing
by to service your digital request.
Bob Brauer
President and CEO, StrikeIron
What's New at StrikeIron?
StrikeIron Offers Gale Data Enrichment on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange
In-depth financial and corporate information on hundreds of thousands of companies can now be integrated directly into sales leads for more
informed selling. (
Salesforce Data Enrichment)
StrikeIron Hits Home Run with Major League Baseball Data from The Sports Network
Baseball Web Service API provides the highest quality data for easy integration into Web 2.0 applications and Web sites
(
Home Run)
What's New in Web Services?
StrikeIron SOA Express™ for Excel
Build rich composite applications quickly and easily within Microsoft
Excel without any programming. New! Now includes support for Microsoft®
Office Excel® 2007 and Microsoft® Windows Vista®! (
SOA Express)
The Sports Network Major League Baseball
Complete and accurate Major League Baseball data. (
MLB)
StrikeIron in the News
Intelligent Enteprise: The Emerging SaaS-Only Enterprise
"What's so cool about this is not that they are using SaaS — most
enterprises are — but the number and depth of the on-demand applications
and services they are employing." (
SaaS-only Enterprise)
eWeek: Shaklee Cleans Up with SaaS
"Shaklee was green before green was cool. Now the company is applying that forward-thinking philosophy to SAAS." (
SaaS)
Intelligent Enterprise: Considering the Web as a Platform
"We also now have database services on-demand, such as Amazon's SimpleDB, on-demand services such as those offered by StrikeIron, and
on-demand development platforms such as the one offered by Salesforce.com's Apex platform-as-a-service, and you can pretty much find
anything else you need out there as well." (
Platform)
StrikeIron Slam Dunks Mashups
"As college basketball teams battle it out on the hardwood this month,
data consumption and distribution company StrikeIron has gotten into the
hoop-la with a contest to see who can create the most innovative widget
or mashup involving the NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament." (
Slam Dunk)
StrikeIron Events:
Web 2.0 Expo
Visit us in San Francisco April 22-25 at the Moscone Center West for Web 2.0 (
Web 2.0)