[Soaplite-announce] StrikeIron Expands Web Services Pricing Options with One-Time Purchase Model

[Kristi L. <kl...@cr...>]

Following closely on the heels of its recent recognition by Gartner as one
of the coolest vendors to watch, StrikeIron announced today a new flexible
pricing model to enable live updates. The primary benefit of offering a
one-time purchase model is to give customers the option of using a Web
Service for a one-time event such as cleansing their current database by
using StrikeIron's US Address Verification Web Service. Please see the press
release below for additional details. And as always please let me know if
you are interested in speaking with StrikeIron. Thanks so much for your
consideration. 

 

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Kristi Lee

Crossroads Public Relations

Telephone: (919) 844-3733

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StrikeIron Expands Web Services Pricing Options with One-Time Purchase Model

Flexible pricing model enables live data updates for any on-demand
application

Research Triangle Park, NC - March 21, 2006 - StrikeIron Inc., provider of
the Web Services Marketplace, today announced the expansion of available
pricing options with the addition of One-time purchase, enabling users of
its diverse library of Web services to purchase a single amount of
transactions to go along with its current monthly and annual subscription
models.  The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace allows developers and ISVs
to integrate Web services into their on-demand applications, Web sites,
smart clients, and other rich-client applications.  Users who subscribe
through the Marketplace have instant access to a rich set of functionality
and live data and can take advantage of simple purchasing, account
management, billing, payment, security and usage tracking at the
micro-transaction level consistently across multiple Web services.  For
example, this pricing option enables developers and ISVs to provide one-time
data cleansing and enrichment of their databases.   

A typical customer would purchase this option to use StrikeIron's US Address
Verification Web Service that is integrated within CRMfusion's DemandTools
for Salesforce.com and currently available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange.
The tight integration with DemandTools allows for
<http://test.strikeiron.com/SIUSAddressVerification> US and Canadian
<http://test.strikeiron.com/SICanadaAddressVerification> address
verification as well as advanced post verification actions such as removing
addresses from salesforce.com, creating a task for the record owner in case
of bad addresses and creating events for the records that verified
correctly. Upon completion of their integration and a one-time cleansing of
their Salesforce.com customer database, they would then upgrade to an
ongoing, on-demand subscription to this service.  

"StrikeIron's Web Services Commerce platform enables business to be
transacted on the Programmable Web," said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of
StrikeIron.  "We've always offered real-time, on-demand solutions and after
listening carefully to our customers we have responded with additional
pricing flexibility to meet their needs.  We are committed to adding more
functionality and features to the Marketplace as it continues on its
explosive growth path."

The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace allows users to easily enhance the
capabilities and value of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments,
increase ROI with CRM investments, improve data quality and data value, and
expand the functionality of Ecommerce applications by integrating real-time
external customer, company, and government data.  Examples include real-time
address verification, email verification, 24-hour accurate reverse phone
lookup, an executive decision-makers database, state and local tax rates,
global SMS capabilities, residential and business data enhancement lookups
and much more. 

About StrikeIron 

StrikeIron is the leader in the commercialization of Web Services, providing
the world's largest library of externally available plug-and-play Web
services. Built on top of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use Web Services
Commerce Platform, the Marketplace serves as a place for providers and
consumers of XML-based Web services to publish, subscribe to, and build
applications and Web sites using a diverse set of Web services. 

Enabling a business model for the Programmable Web, the core technology
provides self-service publishing and consumption of Web services,
micro-transactions and usage-based billing, software infrastructure,
multiple productivity tools, seamless integration for both individual
customers and software technology partners, and a consistency of usage from
multiple Web services across multiple vendors. The
<http://www.aurorafunds.com> Aurora Funds, Inc. and  <http://www.ncidea.org>
NC IDEA provided funding for StrikeIron after recognizing the significant
opportunity to invest in a technology firm leading innovation of the
Programmable Web and Web 2.0. For more information, visit
<http://www.strikeiron.com> www.strikeiron.com.