Jaduka and StrikeIron Launch Voice Notification Web Service

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jaduka and StrikeIron have partnered to provide an innovative business Web service that turns text to speech or a personalized pre-recorded message delivered to recipients’ phones programmatically. It enables businesses of all types and sizes to leverage proactive customer service via customized alerts and notifications cost effectively.

Now businesses can rapidly contact large groups where voice is the most effective communication medium, allowing customized messaging to quickly and easily be tailored to meet specific business requirements. This Web service is ideal for delivering shipping and payment alerts, delay and change notifications, marketing campaigns, appointment reminders, important school notices, emergency messages, and more. This new service can be used interactively or can be integrated into applications, websites, or business processes for automated messaging.

“Jaduka is pleased to partner with StrikeIron and provide subscribers with enhanced voice services that improve business efficiency and customer response,” said Jaduka CEO Thomas Howe.

StrikeIron President Bob Brauer added, “Jaduka's sophisticated voice notification platform combined with StrikeIron's Web services commercialization and delivery capabilities will prove to be a powerful combination of emerging technology, enabling a broad range of applications to quickly and easily become voice-enabled.”

Jaduka Voice Notification is available through StrikeIron's Web Services Catalog, a sophisticated, “as a Service” data distribution engine that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want to integrate live data from any number of sources. The catalog is built on top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.

Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Web services Catalog also have instant access to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of flexible choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their utilization.

The Jaduka Voice Notification Web service is offered with a variety of subscription plans and volume discounts. Subscribers can sign up for 500-10,000 ‘hits’ per month, depending on needs, with a per message cost ranging from 8.9 cents to 19.9 cents, depending on the plan.

For information on Jaduka Voice Notification, email sales@strikeiron.com or call +1.919.467.4545 opt.2.

For a free trial of StrikeIron’s Jaduka Notification service, visit http://www.strikeiron.com/ProductDetail.aspx?p=483

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About Jaduka

Jaduka On-Demand Customer Communications Services target business process optimization by blending real-time communications into critical workflows. Delivered over the Web, our time-sensitive notifications, event-triggered alerts, ad-hoc conferencing functionality and Web site call support help companies increase sales, decrease response times and reduce operating costs across the enterprise.

Jaduka offers frictionless integration, pay-as-you-go billing and zero capital expenditures. Accessed by companies a million times daily, the Jaduka API supports over 1 billion accounts. For more information, please visit: www.Jaduka.com.

About StrikeIron

StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data-as-a-service over the Internet. Business users, application developers and enterprise IT professionals are able to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality from StrikeIron into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. The company provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management, and a consistent interface across many XML-based services from multiple and diverse sources. Currently, StrikeIron offers live data sources and business functionality from organizations such as Cortera, Dun and Bradstreet, Gale Cengage, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, SpeedTax, and Zacks.

StrikeIron delivers value to over 2000 customers and partners such as Avaya, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda Europe, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski, ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. StrikeIron is a portfolio company of Ascent Venture Partners, Aurora Funds, and NC IDEA. For more information, visit www.strikeiron.com.