key people sean o leary president ceo bob brauer co founder cso website www.strikeiron.com strikeiron provides a cloud based data quality suite including email verification address verification phone validation phone append and sales tax calculation solutions . the company is based in research triangle park n.c. it was founded by bob brauer founder of dataflux richard holcomb co founder of haht software and q e software and robert dale in 2003 . strikeiron is a leader in data as a service with its delivery platform ironcloud . to date the company has raised over 16 million usd in venture funding . it is financially backed by ascent ventures the aurora funds and nc idea . the current ceo of the company is sean o leary . 1 history edit the company is based in research triangle park n.c. it was founded by bob brauer founder of dataflux richard holcomb co founder of haht software and q e software and robert dale in 2003 . the early vision of the company was to provide products that would help programmers and analysts to find web services . during the company s initial launch strikeiron offered its first product the web services analyzer . 2 this software product was developed to provide fast analysis and understanding of web service offerings . the analyzer located and generated graphically the data requirements functionality and applicability for web services . in 2004 the company decided to focus on developing a web service delivery platform and started writing web services of its own resulting in the launch of an address verification web service . in 2005 strikeiron rolled out the web services marketplace the world s largest online marketplace dedicated to commercial web services . 3 the web services marketplace brought together a community of providers and users to buy and sell web services subscriptions . strikeiron also released a desktop based premium version of the analyzer that allowed users to easily browse through both internal and external directories . 4 it included direct access to the strikeiron web services marketplace . users could quickly and easily understand the data structures data requirements behavior and results of a web service and select the right web service for their needs without any programming or any additional software . citation needed the web services marketplace greatly simplified the selling and buying of web services for a broad audience of providers and users . citation needed later in 2005 strikeiron released more of its own web services like sales tax and sms solutions . the product portfolio continued to grow in 2006 with the addition of email verification zip code information and financial data services . 5 in 2006 gartner named strikeiron a cool vendor in b2b integration . forrester research also named strikeiron as a hot company to watch . in 2009 strikeiron narrowed product portfolio to data quality and data communication solutions . the company was selected as one of alwayson s global 250 top private companies . citation needed in 2010 strikeiron was a winner of the lead411 hottest companies in southeast award . 6 today strikeiron remains the leader in data as a service . it was the first daas company in the cloud . citation needed in 2012 strikeiron won the cloud computing company of the year award along with an award for best cloud infrastructure at the inaugural cloud awards program . 7 references edit sean o leary smith rick 2003 06 20 . wral tech wire . retrieved 27 september 2011 . wainewright phil 2005 09 20 . now that s what i call a marketplace . zdnet . retrieved 27 september 2011 . strikeiron announces free desktop premium version of the strikeiron web services analyzer . aurora funds . aurora funds . babcock charles 03 13 06 . web services by the dozen . informationweek . retrieved 27 september 2011 . check date values in date help lead411 launches hottest companies in the southeast awards . hottest companies in the southeast . lead411 . retrieved 27 september 2011 . cloud awards 2012 winners . cloud awards . cloud awards . retrieved 15 february 2012 . notes top 10 venture capital deals in q1 by phil goldstein fierce wireless june 23 2009 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title strikeiron & oldid 741095105 categories software companies based in north carolinacompanies established in 2003software by companyhidden categories cs1 errors datesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2011articles with unsourced statements from february 2012official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated 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