StrikeIron Private Web Services Cloud

Private Web services deployed "out in the cloud" can be beneficial to organizations who have internal data, data collected from external sources, business processes, APIs, or other IT assets they would like to make available to a controlled audience in a measured way utilizing sophisticated, proven technology via the Web.

Organizations typically do this because they want to enable connections to other applications, Web sites, business processes, partners, customers, and employees to their own systems and data to achieve efficiency and enable a broad array of Web-transacted business. In addition, they would like to provide a foundation to those who would innovate on top of these Web services and data sources, furthering leadership positions and enabling Internet-based business development to occur.

Of course, these kinds of capabilities can all be built from scratch internally. However, that can take months and years and many iterations through a learning curve to bring it live and make it useful. Fortunately there are options available to leverage existing solutions and bring a set of Web service APIs available in a very short period of time (days or weeks).

Organizations tend to look to outside solutions to significantly lower costs, get to market quickly, have comprehensive capabilities, minimize ongoing maintenance and leverage existing domain expertise. This buy versus build approach also allows for a phased strategy, where a few Web services can be created and deployed, and then expanded in scope as they succeed against custom metrics in pay-as-you-go models.

Take a look at the below architecture and see what "Private Web Services" out in the cloud can look like via StrikeIron. Also, in the case of utilizing the StrikeIron Private Web Services Cloud (a.k.a IronCloud), potential API and Web services publishers can get a feel for what their own Web services will look like and how they will behave by trying and integrating the 50+ public APIs that already exist on the public platform available at www.strikeiron.com, as well as pre-built third-party application integrations, such as with Microsoft Excel and Salesforce.com.