Feels like it’s been a year since I’ve put up a post. Been sooooo busy getting stuff done inside the corporate walls.
Yesterday, Jaduka and StrikeIron announced a partnership where StrikeIron will include Jaduka’s services into their catalog. The first service we are announcing is our notification service, and allows any Internet connected program to initiate a phone call to any phone, and deliver a voice message like “Your car is ready to be picked up” or “Your medical test looks just fine”. The service is available immediately from StirkeIron, and a free trial is available.
Bob Brauer, the CEO of StrikeIron, has a great post about this on his blog:
It enables either text-to-voice (meaning words are converted to a computerized voice mimicking a human) or pre-recorded .wav files to be delivered to anyone or anything with a phone number, including mobile devices, VOIP lines, land-lines, and more. As with all of our services, we provide a SOAP and REST API interface that can be used to integrate this functionality into applications, business processes/workflow, Websites, third-party solutions, mobile applications and more.
Some of our research has shown that the outbound IVR market is increasing over 20% per year (from the $300-$400 million that it is now), and all sorts of new use cases are emerging. This all makes for an exciting offering.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with StrikeIron, they are the leading provider of web services for Enterprises, mashups, SaaS offerings… even spreadsheets. Think of them as the WalMart of web services. From their site:
StrikeIron’s Data Web services Catalog is a sophisticated Software as a Service data distribution engine that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want to integrate live data from any number of sources. The catalog is built on top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 127 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Cortera (formerly eCredit) Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, NASDAQ, USPS, and Zacks.
Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Data Web services Catalog have instant access to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, flexible pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their utilization.
From our perspective, StrikeIron is a dream channel for our service:
- StrikeIron is not only the largest provider of web services, but they have the largest number of Enterprises that uses these services
- StrikeIron is pre-integrated into NetBeans, allowing our services to be available to the millions (4 million downloads last year!) of Enterprise developers already working on SOA and WOA applications
- StrikeIron is pre-integrated into IBM’s Mashup Center, allowing IBM, its partners and customers to voice enable any application without costly and expensive integration efforts
- StrikeIron is pre-integrated into SalesForce, the largest SaaS provider in the world
Anyways, more to come. Back to work.
