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StrikeIron Exhibiting at Eloqua Experience 2010 in San Francisco

StrikeIron is excited to announce that we will be an exhibitor at Eloqua Experience 2010, Eloqua's premier user event, October 18th-20th at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.

We will be demonstrating our Contact Record Verification Suite and how high quality, current, accurate, and comprehensive data about customers and prospects can greatly improve marketing campaign ROI.

We will also showcase the integration work Eloqua has done with our SMS Alerts and Notifications solution, enabling SMS-based proactive communication with opted-in contacts. SMS is a communication type in Eloqua's product offering that as part of a campaign or lead nurturing workflow program, a message can be sent to a contact. For example, for those contacts who have provided their mobile phone number as a method of communication, a reminder text message such as "Reminder: Webinar in 15 minutes" can be sent in an automated fashion.

A list of sponsors, including ourselves, can be found here:

http://www.eloquaexperience.com/content/sponsors

StrikeIron Exhibiting at Oracle Open World in San Francisco, Sept 19-23, 2010

StrikeIron will be exhibiting at Oracle's Open World event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, September 19th through the 23rd.

We will be demonstrating our Contact Record Verification Suite and other easy-to-integrate Web services product offerings that help an organization maintain a base of high quality, comprehensive, current customer data in a substantially easier way than ever before. Great customer data is a key component of success when working with various products underneath the Oracle offering umbrella.

This will also be a great opportunity to meet several members of our team for existing and prospective customers, as well as engage in deep-dive discussions about our technology, products, and how better data within business processes, products, systems, and Web sites can provide substantial ROI.

In addition to our own demonstrations, there will be partner demonstrations also at the event.

We will also be discussing our plans around Oracle's forthcoming Fusion Applications launch.

Hope to see you there!

Validating Phone Numbers in Real-Time

As part of our Contact Record Verification Suite, StrikeIron has the ability to instantly validate phone numbers. This means that via an integrated Web service, you can send us a phone number and we will respond with the validity of the phone number, including the city, county, time zone, span of zip codes for which this number might exist, including some basic population demographics about the area.

This can be ideal for ensuring high quality data before it is ever inserted into a CRM system for example, whether from a Web-to-lead form or from a call center representative, and can provide some considerable fraud detection value as well.

Here is an example:

Passing us phone number 330-336-2051

Yields the following result:

StatusDescription = Area Code and Exchange Valid
OriginalPhoneNumber = 3303362051
DecoratedPhoneNumber = (330) 336-2051
AreaCode = 330
Exchange = 336
Station = 2051
Country = US
State = OH
City = WADSWORTH
County = MEDINA
Timezone = -5
DST = 1
CountyPopulation = 151000
ZipCode = 44281
ZipCodeCount = 3935
ZipCodeFrequency = 87
ZipCode = 44203
ZipCodeCount = 213
ZipCodeFrequency = 5
ZipCode = 44273
ZipCodeCount = 156
ZipCodeFrequency = 3
ZipCode = 44256
ZipCodeCount = 94
ZipCodeFrequency = 2
ZipCode = 44270
ZipCodeCount = 78
ZipCodeFrequency = 2


This data can be useful in a variety of different ways, and since we provide the result in XML, you can then utilize this data in whatever way makes sense for you. Integrating this kind of phone number validation check into a business process, Website, application, or anything else can be quite useful.