Pitney Bowes set to deliver speed and agility
through alliances with new cloud-enabled solutions and services
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, today
announced that the deployment of the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud to
customers will be enhanced through the company’s strong
partnerships with industry leaders, including Apigee, Aria Systems,
Dun & Bradstreet, General Electric (GE), Microsoft, MongoDB,
Okta and Salesforce.com (SFDC).
The Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud is a commerce enabler, providing
access to solutions, analytics and APIs across the full commerce
continuum with speed and agility to help clients identify
customers, locate opportunities, enable communications, power
shipping from anywhere to everywhere, and manage payments.
Businesses of all sizes can now securely access – either through
PCs, mobile devices, connected metering devices, or via APIs – a
full range of shipping, mailing, ecommerce, location intelligence,
customer information management, customer engagement and payment
solutions that simplify and power all forms of commerce. The
announcement was made earlier today in New York City at the Le
Parker Meridien Hotel.
Solutions and APIs delivered through the Cloud will enable
businesses of all sizes—from the mailroom to the boardroom-- to be
more forward thinking. As a result, Pitney Bowes, its partners, and
its clients will experience a quicker time to value through
increased agility and scalability, on-demand services, legacy
platform integration and access to contextually-based data that
will ultimately drive commerce in the Digital Era.
“Today businesses operate at the intersection of the physical
and digital worlds. To help our clients navigate this intersection,
Pitney Bowes is focused on developing product solutions in
innovative ways and delivering them to market in a timely, scalable
manner,” says Marc Lautenbach, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Pitney Bowes. “Our partnerships are absolutely critical to
delivering these services to our clients. We’re honored to be
surrounded by a team of industry-leading partners to deliver
world-class solutions.”
The partner services in the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud enhance
a number of Pitney Bowes applications, including pbSmartPostage,
Spectrum On Demand, Universal Address Management, Relay Hub,
EngageOne Video, Borderfree Marketplace, Borderfree Retail, Global
Financial Services, Clarity Solutions, Enroute Shipping, SendSuite
Tracking Online and SendPro.
Following today’s launch of the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud,
several partners are expressing their support for the new
cloud-enabled solutions and services that will leverage the
innovation, security and reliability that has made Pitney Bowes an
industry leader for more than 95 years and represent a key
strategic milestone in the evolution of shipping, mailing and
ecommerce:
“Apigee’s partnership with Pitney Bowes
highlights our shared focus on powering today's digital economy
through solutions like the Commerce Cloud,” says Chet Kapoor, CEO,
Apigee. "We’re honored to have Pitney Bowes leverage the Apigee
Edge API management software to help deliver data-powered services
that can drive innovation and enable internal and external
developers to build connected applications more quickly.”
-Apigee
“Aria is proud to continue its trusted
partnership with Pitney Bowes, providing our top-ranked billing and
monetization service through the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud,” says
Tom Dibble, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aria Systems.
“Our cloud capabilities are empowering clients like Pitney Bowes to
accelerate their time to market and provide frictionless billing
that enables greater customer satisfaction on a global scale.”
–Aria Systems
“Dun & Bradstreet is excited to partner
with Pitney Bowes to help businesses grow,” says Bob Carrigan,
Chief Executive Officer, Dun & Bradstreet. “Making our global
business data available through the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud
will empower businesses to glean actionable insights used to help
drive global commerce in more innovative, meaningful ways.” -
Dun & Bradstreet
“In the Digital Era, businesses are seeking
solutions that allow them to quickly adapt to the ever-changing
world of Commerce. Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud is designed
specifically to address these business challenges in order to
deliver increased productivity, operational efficiencies and more
reliable services to its clients,” says Bill Ruh, CEO, GE Digital.
“That’s why Pitney Bowes has chosen to work with GE to leverage our
Predix platform, combining GE’s software and analytics capabilities
with Pitney Bowes shipping and mailing solutions. Our collaboration
is one that will drive Commerce into the future and positively
impact the Industrial Internet.” -GE
“Savvy entrepreneurs build a great team around
them to tap resources and capabilities to help grow their business.
The Pitney Bowes / Microsoft combination is a big win for small and
medium businesses to leverage SendPro to increase productivity and
streamline overall shipping functions,” says Cindy Bates, Microsoft
Vice President, Small and Midsized Business & Distribution. “We
are delighted to team up with Pitney Bowes. This is the first in a
series of innovative commerce applications to be deployed by Pitney
Bowes on Microsoft platforms, including Windows 10 and Office 365.”
-Microsoft
“Over the last decade solution-specific cloud
platforms have proven themselves to be a market-winning strategy,"
says Dev Ittycheria, CEO and President at MongoDB. "As many
companies move to a cloud model, they are increasingly choosing
MongoDB as the backbone of their business. MongoDB is the only
database to combine the best of relational technologies with the
flexibility, scalability and always on global deployments that are
required for today's modern platform. Pitney Bowes has leveraged
MongoDB to create a cloud commerce platform that will expand what
is possible for its customers and set the stage for the future of
global commerce.” -MongoDB
“The cloud is enabling businesses to reinvent
their most critical operations while increasing security
and productivity for customers and partners. Okta uniquely offers a
single platform for B2B and B2C websites, portals and cloud
applications to securely manage and enable identity and access,”
says Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder of Okta, “As Pitney Bowes
revolutionizes their digital commerce platform to deliver a
top quality experience to their customers, we’re delighted to
partner to provide identity and device
management for their cloud and IoT initiatives.”
-Okta
“I am thrilled that Salesforce is a key
component of the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, helping to deliver
exceptional experiences for every part of the customer journey,"
said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce. "It's amazing to
see this iconic American enterprise transforming itself into a
digital, 21st century company.” –Salesforce.com
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a global technology company offering
innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas
of customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than
1.5 million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world
rely on products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes. For
additional information, visit Pitney Bowes
at www.pitneybowes.com.
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