Pitney Bowes Announces Global Hackathon Winners
January 17 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Developers on the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud
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Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, today
announced the winners of the Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon. More
than 2,000 developers from major technology firms submitted 65 new
technology solutions during the Global Hackathon which took place
September 29 through October 8, 2017. The company has selected four
winners from the 65 submissions.
The winners of the Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon are:
- Ordoro for C-Series: Developed by
Ordoro, this application enables small and medium businesses to
sell to multiple ecommerce marketplaces by managing inventory and
printing labels directly from the Pitney Bowes SendPro C-Series
device.
- Track My Package: The second prize is
awarded to Ian Noronha and Sharan Lobana from the Indian
Institute of Technology Roorkee. This solution enables real-time
shipment tracking.
- Same-Day Delivery: In a tie for second
prize is Santosh Bhutkar and Pratiksha Dikshit. They created a
solution that enables same-day delivery using UberRUSH
integration.
- ShipBot: The third prize is awarded to
a smart customer support solution created by Margaryta Ostapchuk,
Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Canada. This solution uses
ChatBot and helps business owners to manage customer support and
shipping needs from mobile devices.
The Hackathon invited developers and startups to build
intelligent working applications for more than one million Pitney
Bowes clients as they identify and locate customers, communicate
with them, collect payments and ship merchandise. The applications
were judged based on their business potential, user experience, and
technical complexity.
Manish Choudhary, Senior Vice President, Global SMB Products and
Strategy at Pitney Bowes said, “The Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon
was a great example of open innovation. We look forward to working
with global innovators as we accelerate the digital transformation
of our portfolio.”
Algorithmia and Zoho, and many other organizations, created
solutions in the areas of social Customer Relationship Management,
Customer Support, Marketing, eCommerce and On-Demand Shipping.
“Small businesses are transforming and Artificial Intelligence
provides them with an edge to make their business processes
smarter. By offering our algorithms to the global developer
community of Pitney Bowes, we saw high-value solutions come out of
the Global Hackathon in just a week’s time,” said Diego
Oppenheimer, CEO, Algorithmia.
"Hackathons are a great way to invent the future. To empower
developers to shape the trajectory of technology is our core
mission and we are happy to participate in this effort spearheaded
by Pitney Bowes," said Hyther Nizam, Director of Technology, Zoho
Corporation.
The Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon is the first of the many
opportunities for developers to leverage its technology
and gain access to a large customer base. The Pitney Bowes SMB
Startup Portal helps startups and developers efficiently access
tools and resources to build high-quality applications for Pitney
Bowes customers.
To learn more about how Pitney Bowes supports the
developer communities around the world,
please visit https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/developer.html.
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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