Research Triangle Park, NC – June 19, 2003 - StrikeIron, Inc., an innovative Web services software development company, today unveiled its first product, the StrikeIron™ Web Services Analyzer. The StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer provides business intelligence analysts, knowledge workers and software developers with the ability to locate and understand the data structure, data requirements, behavior, and expected results of any Web service anywhere in the world.

Web services are emerging worldwide and each has its own business purpose and set of requirements. Implementers of Web services are required to spend an inordinate amount of time pouring over XML documents and writing code in order to understand the Web services’ behavior and to quantify their benefits. By using the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer, the hours spent trying to understand a Web service can be reduced to minutes.

The Web Services Analyzer is the first product based on StrikeIron’s Web Services Business Object (WSBO™) layer. WSBO allows users to combine multiple Web services with added business rules and logic that can then be integrated into common business applications like Microsoft Office, SAP and PeopleSoft.

Utilizing the Microsoft Windows platform, the Analyzer allows a user to graphically visualize the data requirements of a Web service. It can dynamically invoke a Web service (no compiling required) with experimental values to enable a user to understand its operational behavior. Thus a user can quickly understand a Web service’s applicability and value to a given business situation.

In addition, the Analyzer provides a rich set of tools to aid in the discovery of Web services, as well as tools to make the data from Web services available to other software applications.

For a limited time, StrikeIron is offering a beta version of the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer free of charge to information analysts and software developers who are willing to provide direct feedback on the product or are interested in exploring its capabilities. To download a free copy of the Analyzer, visit www.strikeiron.com.

"We expect to receive an incredible amount of useful feedback from our first release, since this is such an exciting area of information technology right now. That’s the beauty of opening up the test audience to the World Wide Web," said Bob Brauer, Vice President of Business Development at StrikeIron.

“I think the software industry has been lacking an easy to use tool that enables a developer to quickly leverage the power and reach of Web services. From what I've seen, the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer does the trick and more," said Scott Gidley, Chief Technical Officer for DataFlux, a subsidiary of SAS Institute.

"The StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer is a breakthrough in offering practical, easy-to-use solutions for discovering and utilizing Web services," said Richard Holcomb, Chairman and CEO of StrikeIron. “The StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer is the first in a suite of StrikeIron products that will make Web services the first choice of development shops and business users who are implementing Service-Oriented Architectures or integrating Web services with traditional data-driven applications such as business intelligence, CRM and data warehousing.”
 

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