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StrikeIron Jump-Starts 2008 with Multiple Industry Honors

CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise Web site announced its 2008 Editors’ Choice Award winners with StrikeIron included among its 36 “Companies to Watch” in the enterprise application category. StrikeIron was also included in Robin Bloor’s list of “10 IT Companies to Watch in 2008.”

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StrikeIron Expands Web Services Marketplace with New Financial and Business Data Services from Gale

In-depth financial and corporate information on hundreds of thousands of U.S. and international companies: Two new Financial and Business data services from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have been added to StrikeIron's expanding Web Services Marketplace: Gale Business Information Web Service 1.0.0 and Gale Business Intelligence Web Service 1.0.0.

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StrikeIron Delivers Data Web Services via IBM QEDWiki

StrikeIron Inc., a provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced that it has aligned with IBM to deliver premium web services via IBM's enterprise mashup maker QEDWiki. Content available includes business intelligence services such as multiple D&B services, Address Verification, Email Verification, Currency Rates and many more.

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StrikeIron Super Data Pack

Start working with Web services and live data instantly! The Super Data Pack brings together dozens of Web services into one easy-to-use “Super” Web service. With the Super Data Pack, developers and end-users can leverage multiple data sources for use within a diverse set of rich applications at no cost or with no commitment.

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Time to balance WS-* and REST

REST is particularly suitable for very large networks with huge numbers of clients and servers and where it is convenient to model all operations as reads and writes directed to individual URIs. As for WS-*, its sweet spot lies in systems bigger than those that use distributed objects, and whose networks are further flung, slower, less reliable, and possibly divided between different administrative domains.

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OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft® Excel

StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft® Excel is the first, simple, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Build real-time, on-demand access to data utilizing Web services without any programming knowledge. Now anyone can take advantage of on-demand Web services for accessing real-time data using Excel!OnDemand Web Services for Excel removes the technical issues of finding, accessing, understanding and integrating Web services into Excel by taking advantage of the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network and StrikeIron’s powerful underlying “dynamic invocation” technology that requires no compiling, no programming and no additional software.Benefits

  • Real-time access to critical data for improved business decisions

  • Improved productivity and lower costs by eliminating unnecessary steps in data management and distribution.

  • Saves IT time and cost of supporting specialized data access applications.

  • Significantly reduce Excel application development time and expense.

  • Greater flexibility for future changes with the utilization of Web services.

  • Improved security of data through the Invisible Link option.

  • Improved access control of the data for better consistency in usage.

  • Assured reliability and security of the StrikeIron Premium Web Services.

  • Greater productivity with on-demand integrated access to the break-through graphical tools and Web Services directory of the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network.

Features

  • Smply drag and drop Web services operations directly into cells in your spreadsheet.

  • Operation labels are automatically dropped into the spreadsheet which you can easily customize.

  • Complete flexibility to perform any Excel calculation or function on the output of the Web services.

  • Easy control of whether input/output fields are dropped vertically or horizontally.

  • Alternating rows can be color coded and cell comments are provided for easier identification.

  • Refresh calculation can be controlled individually or all at once.

  • Unique Invisible Link option that erases the data for security to prevent viewing by unauthorized users.

  • Simple “word” search feature provides access to over 1000 Web services through the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network.

  • Directly access WSDL locations in UDDI registries for internal development.

  • Integrated access to the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network for enhanced graphic Search services, Web Services Knowledge Base, Web Services Analyzer and the Premium Web Services.

AudienceAnyone using Excel that needs to access real-time data or build on-demand applications for better decision making:

  • Financial/Business/Company Analysts

  • Financial services companies

  • Consulting services companies

System Requirements

  • Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003 – Intel Pentium II (or compatible) 500MHz or greater.

  • 6MB of available hard disk space for StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Excel

  • 37MB of available hard disk space for Microsoft .Net Framework (if not already installed)

  • 128K MB of RAM (256K MB or more recommended)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later

  • Internet connection dial up 56K modem; highly recommend DSL or higher

  • Microsoft Excel 2002 or greater

URL for more information:

http://www.strikeiron.com/htmls/ondemand.aspx