|
StrikeIron Hits Home Run with Major League Baseball Data from The Sports Network
|
|
Baseball Web Service API provides the highest quality data for easy integration into Web 2.0 applications and Web sites
StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced it has extended its sports offering with the addition of Major League Baseball (MLB) data from The Sports Network (TSN). The TSN Major League Baseball Web Service enables users to acquire up-to-date information on America’s favorite pastime including league, team and individual player coverage via an easy-to-integrate Web Services/XML API. The Sports Network is the nation’s foremost international real-time sports wire service and the leader in providing complete sports data. “Baseball is a sport driven by stats, scores and summaries,” stated Ken Zajac, director of sales for The Sports Network. “StrikeIron gives fans the ability to rapidly develop social applications, mobile alerts and much more to create new, innovative experiences for the Web 2.0 fan.” TSN’s Major League Baseball Web Service is the second of many sports offerings to come through StrikeIron’s Marketplace. Some of the key features of this offering include: - Accessibility to a broad array of statistical categories for both pitching and batting
- Cumulative statistics by individual players for all key categories
- Real-time sports data news and scores with batter-by-batter updates every sixty seconds
- Drill down capabilities to track data by player, team or league
- Delivery of data through an easy-to-use XML format that can easily integrate into widgets, badges, gadgets, Web applications and mashups.
For more on this service, please visit: www.strikeiron.com/TSNMLB “Providing real-time sports data is just another example of the power of our platform. Just about any data source can be aggregated and provided as an easy-to-integrate data service that will in turn drive a whole new category of innovation,” stated Bob Brauer, CEO and founder of StrikeIron. “We’re excited to deliver yet another data source to a whole new audience who can develop new ways to monetize it with social applications, widgets and fan-driven Web sites as examples.”About The Sports NetworkThe Sports network is the nation’s foremost international real-time sports wire service furnishing a plethora of content on a 24/7 basis using state-of-the-art technology. TSN’s website, www.sportsnetwork.com contains voluminous proprietary sports news data that includes, but is not limited to, scores, trends, analysis, news, features, statistics, pre and post-game reports, box scores, historical data and much more. Among its clients are Bresnan Communications, EarthLink, Google, Cablevision, Tribune Interactive, McClatchy, Lexis*Nexis, Westwood One, New York Times, New York Daily News, Denver Post, Detroit News Learfield Communications, Media News, Metro Source, Comtex and hundreds more. www.sportsnetwork.com consistently ranked as one of the more prominent sports sites on the Internet. TSN currently brands sports pages for sites numbering in excess of 500 while furnishing satellite transmitted data and online transmission to a host of organizations domestically and internationally. About StrikeIronStrikeIron is the leader in Data as a Service (DaaS), facilitating the consumption and distribution of live, integratable data and business functionality over the Web. The company’s innovative Web Services Marketplace provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, The Sports Network, Wall Street Horizon, and Zacks. StrikeIron also offers a set of products and tools to simplify and accelerate the consumption of data such as its SOA Express for Excel, enabling business users to access live data via front office applications. StrikeIron delivers value to over 1,200 customers and partners such as BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda Europe, D&B, Time Warner, Siemens, Nike, Kenwood, and Exclusive Resorts. For more information, visit www.strikeiron.com. ### StrikeIron, SOA Exprss for Excel, StrikeIron Marketplace Powered and StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace are trademarks of StrikeIron, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.
|
 |
|
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
|
By: StrikeIron, Inc.
|
|
|
|
