StrikeIron Data Fuels Enterprise Mashup Platforms
StrikeIron Marketplace provides over 100 data services that enhance data applications
Research Triangle Park, NC – December 11, 2007 – StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced its Marketplace Web Services are now integratable with the majority of leading mashup platforms.
“There has been a lot of speculation about whether mash-ups would have a significant role to play in Enterprise computing. In the last year, it has become clear that they do. Indeed, Enterprise mashups are now changing the IT landscape by providing end-to-end quality, performance and dependability to critical business processes”, said Robin Bloor, partner in Hurwitz & Associates. “StrikeIron is part of this rapid evolution, meeting the market need for enterprise ready data that is reliable and easy to use.”
“The promise of tailored applications for business users is inspiring our clients to experiment,” said Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging Internet technologies. “Through expanding the emerging mashup ecosystem, IBM and StrikeIron are empowering clients to leverage the massive amount of information on the Internet, and sending it to work within their enterprises.”
These Mashup Platforms allow users to rapidly bring together data from the Web, enterprise applications and Web services, in order to deliver a rich client experience. Business users can easily consume information and create customized solutions for their specific business problems without having to define requirements and wait for IT.
There are many sources of data available from both inside the enterprise and on the Internet; however, business problems require access to a reliable source of data. StrikeIron provides enterprise-class data from the leading providers in business intelligence, eCommerce and mapping information such as D&B, Zacks, MapQuest, Xignite, YP.com, and SAS.
Currently, StrikeIron Web Services can be easily integrated with any of the following players in the mashup space:
“Mashups work because they easily leverage data from both inside and outside of the enterprise in new, creative ways that is usable by a larger group of people within an organization”, said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of StrikeIron. “Companies can now empower business users to create their own short-term solutions such as mashups, leveraging time, resources, and technology – which is ultimately ideal for the bottom line.”
About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data over
the emerging Internet. The company’s innovative Web Services Catalog 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, Gale, MapQuest,
Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, 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, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski,
ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. For more information, visit
www.strikeiron.com.
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