StrikeIron SOA Express™ for Excel

"Bringing SOA to the Desktop"

New! Now includes support for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 and Microsoft® Windows Vista®!

Bring your SOA to life in minutes! Build rich composite applications quickly and easily within Microsoft Excel without any programming. Traditionally this has only been possible by hard-wiring Web services into Excel with complex Visual Basic programming. This is the first drag-and-drop composite application builder available for Microsoft Excel. SOA Express can leverage an entire library of services available within any SOA, enabling rich "live" powerful applications to be built in minutes.

Now, I.T. can put the power of live data directly to the desktop without any risk to internal data controls. And Business Users can build "live" Excel workbooks with real-time data available all over the organization and combine them with data that is available over the Web.

"It's tough to imagine an easier way to hook things up short of the mind-reading interface that we don't quite have yet." Mike Gunderloy, ADT Magazine

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SOA Express for Excel:

Enables the creation of quick & dirty Web-services driven applications to be built in minutes, as well as sophisticated rich-client applications within Excel that incorporate many SOAP-based Web services, include branching and conditional logic, control of invocation sequence, and interaction with users
Leverages SOA investments, enabling business users on the desktop to build situational applications that incorporate multiple internal and external Web services
Enables smart clients to be built that incorporate "live" data and utilize all of Microsoft Excel's rich set of features via drag and drop
Serves as interactive, customizable, universal client for all kinds of Web services both public and private
Greatly expands the reach of internal data and business processes across the enterprise in a familiar environment
Builds lightweight enterprise mashups in Excel without having to purchase complex software
Prevents Excel spreadsheets from becoming out of date with real-time data enabling

In addition

Supports UDDI registries
Can drag and drop Web services into Excel where input and output parameters attach themselves to cells, as well as manually enter WSDL locations
Supports complex types, varying data types as supported by Web services standards, and multiple array types for broad applicability
Allows full control of invocation rules, such as manual, automatic, timed intervals, button-driven, and more
Includes extra design functionality to control data output
Uses simple Excel functionality for managing data from multiple Web services

With StrikeIron's SOA Express for Excel:

No programming necessary
No reason to move data all over the enterprise
Minimal learning curve for business executives who already know how to use Excel
Provides a face and easy access for service-enabled legacy applications
Maximizes reuse and minimizes access points to enterprise data
Substantially increases ROI on SOA investments
Assists IT in putting the power of data directly to users desktops
Enterprise 2.0: Tap into the creativity and knowledge of the business user while fully controlling data access via Web services

Try it FREE! SOA Express is always free when you are working with StrikeIron Marketplace Data Services. And, if you want to try it with any other data source, you get a free 30-day Trial!

How it Works

StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel (previously known as OnDemand Web Services for Excel) connects the front office to the heterogeneous back office—empowering business users by providing simple drag and drop data service directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This offloads the high cost and time associated with data integration efforts required by IT and instead gives business users greater office productivity at their fingertips. Now anyone can create engaging, interactive composite applications fed by real-time data.

Import live data from any XML Web Service

Build a composite application with one or more services

Business users have live data workbooks directly on the desktop—no programming required

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We Help You Every Step of the Way!

Online Demos
Take a few minutes to view our online tutorials. We walk you through several examples of creating a composite application right inside Excel! Click here to view the tutorials.

Free Sample Workbooks
We've created over 30 Sample Workbooks that utilize the various Web services available from StrikeIron's Web Services Marketplace. These "live-data" workbooks are not only solutions as is, but also demonstrate the kinds of rich-client, services-driven applications that can be created using SOA Express for Excel. Click here to download the free sample workbooks.

Documentation
Download the User Guide

Download a free copy of the StrikeIron Next Evolution of Data Integration for Excel Whitepaper.

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Latest Version

2.6.0

System Requirements

Windows XP Professional (SP2) – Processor speed 500Mhz or better; OR Windows Vista (32 bit) – Processor speed 1GHz or better
6MB of available hard disk space for SOA Express for Excel
280MB of available hard disk space for Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 (if not already installed).
For Windows XP, 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended). For Windows Vista, we recommend 1GB RAM or more.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later
Microsoft Excel 2003 or Excel 2007
You must be connected to the Internet to access any Web service.
.NET with SP1

A StrikeIron registered user can use their registered email address and password as the UserID and password for trials and paid subscription access to any StrikeIron Marketplace Web Service, eliminating the need to remember different license keys for each Web service. Click here for more information on Trials and Subscriptions.

* Note: If Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on your PC, SOA Express for Excel prompts you to confirm its installation from the Microsoft website. The .NET Framework is required for the SOA Express for Excel installation. Once the .NET Framework install is complete, the system proceeds with the SOA Express for Excel installation.

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SOA Express for Excel Marketplace Edition

StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel is free if you are using it with StrikeIron Marketplace Web Services. And, if you want to try it with any other data source, we offer a free 30-day Trial! Download your free version or trial here:

SOA Express for Excel Professional Edition

If you wish to use Web services outside of the StrikeIron Marketplace, you will need to purchase the Professional Edition. You may trial the Professional Edition free for 30 days (the trial built into the free Marketplace Edition). At the end of the trial, if you do not purchase the Professional Edition, you will still have full access to all of the services available in StrikeIron's Web Services Marketplace.

Pricing**:

Single User License: $495

5-License Pack: $1995

25 License Pack: $7500

100 License Pack: $25,000

View End User License Agreement

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**The Product purchase price includes maintenance and support services for one year beginning at the time of purchase. After the first year, the annual maintenance and support fees shall be calculated at twenty percent (20%) of the then-current list price for the product with a cap on annual increases not to exceed five percent (5%) above the fee charged to you during the immediately preceding support term.

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