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.”
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.
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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Dr. Jim Webber is a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks Australia where he leads the Web Services and SOA practice. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with UK E-Science where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide." His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name .
I discuss why I believe that if SOAP is slower than a good binary protocol, it's not by much. And it's getting faster.
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