RatchetSoft continues to bring web services to applications people already use. Ratchet-X can incorporate data from web services into existing web sites, electronic forms and other traditional desktop applications without making any modifications to them.

With the release of Ratchet-X Community Edition, RatchetSoft also releases a suite of plug-ins based on StrikeIron web services.

Ratchet-X Community Edition is a free, full-featured version of the Ratchet-X platform. Ratchet-X empowers software users to be more productive by allowing them to take greater control over their application integration needs. The basic value proposition comes from its ability to expand and enhance existing applications by transforming them from isolated “silos” of functionality and data into “mashups” that facilitate more integrated and accessible information across end users in an organization.

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StrikeIron Announces Mashup Madness! Hoops Contest

Contest challenges developers to showcase their skills with live college basketball data and win a flat screen TV

Research Triangle Park, NC – February 20, 2008 - StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced the NCAA hoops contest “Mashup Madness”. This contest is based on the newest addition to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, The Sports Network Men’s College Basketball Web service. This XML-based API provides a breadth of real-time NCAA Men’s College Basketball data that is updated as often as every 60 seconds. StrikeIron is launching the contest to see who can create the most innovative basketball widget, mash-up or application that leverages this data.

The contest begins Friday, February 22, 2008 and ends Monday, March 31, 2008 with winners announced on April 7, ...

I attended the NetSuite Partner Conference two weeks ago. NetSuite made some interesting announcements about new functionality such as Subsidiary Management & Consolidation. But what really caught my attention was SuiteBundler. SuiteBundler is the newest addition to NetSuite's SuiteFlex platform. For those of you new to NetSuite, but familiar with Salesforce.com, the SuiteFlex platform is similar to Salesforce.com's Force.com platform. SuiteFlex is application development and integration platform that enables developers to build custom functionality, such as custom fields, forms, and functions - both in the browser and on the server - on top of NetS ...