Company Accelerates Digital Transformation with Google Developers on
the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2017--
More than 2,000 developers from major technology firms have submitted 65
new technology solutions created during the Pitney Bowes Global
Hackathon which took place September 29 through October 10, 2017. Pitney
Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company that provides innovative
products and solutions to power commerce.
According to research and advisory firm Gartner, “Hackathons are a great
way to jump-start an API program...A recent Gartner survey showed that
35% of enterprises with aggressive innovation strategies use hackathons
to pursue hot initiatives.”*
The Global Hackathon invited developers to collaborate and build
applications and solutions for more than one million Pitney Bowes
clients as they identify and locate customers, communicate with them,
collect payments and ship merchandise. The
Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud is the open platform where more than
2,000 developers went to work on solutions in many areas including
mailing and shipping, global ecommerce, and payments.
The Global Hackathon brought together the Google
Developers Community with innovators from Pitney Bowes and dozens of
other developer communities. The 65 applications and solutions were
developed for the next generation Pitney
Bowes SendPro C-Series, a complete solution that handles all
business sending needs via Android,
Google’s open-source mobile operating system.
“The Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon is the best example of our company’s
integration across our mailing and shipping, software, data and global
ecommerce businesses. Developers from the best technology firms in the
world are collaborating around all of our physical and digital solutions
on our open platform, the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud,” said Marc
Lautenbach, President and CEO of Pitney Bowes. “Because we created our
sending solution with the Android operating system, we’ll be able to
quickly bring to market a breadth of applications and solutions from
Pitney Bowes and from our technology partners.”
The 65 solutions brought forward during the Hackathon are designed to
remove the complexities of global commerce including Document Security,
Duties and Taxes, and Address Management.
*Gartner: Top 10 Things CIOs Need to Know About APIs and the API
Economy, Paolo Malinverno, Kristin R. Moyer, Mark O’Neill, Mike Gilpin,
Published 25 January 2017 ID G00318859
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company powering billions
of transactions – physical and digital – in the connected and borderless
world of commerce. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the
Fortune 500, rely on products, solutions, services and data from Pitney
Bowes in the areas of customer information management, location
intelligence, customer engagement, shipping, mailing, and global
ecommerce. And with the innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients
can access the broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and
APIs to drive commerce. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes,
the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.
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Pitney Bowes
Carol Wallace, 203-351-6974
Carol.wallace@pb.com
