Google G Suite, Yext, Acquisio, DocuSign and
Nimble CRM Onboard to Deliver Digital Marketing, eSignature and
Productivity & Accounting Applications to Pitney Bowes
Clients
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, is
accelerating innovation and value for its SMB clients through its
new Small Business Partner Program, which includes Google G Suite,
Yext (NYSE: YEXT), Acquisio, DocuSign and Nimble CRM. This partner
ecosystem allows partners to gain access to Pitney Bowes clients
and offer their innovative digital marketing and productivity
applications available through the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud.
Shipping and mailing related applications are available on the
newly released SendPro C-Series office sending solution via the
Google Android operating system. To scale an increased breadth of
partner applications over time, a Pitney Bowes App Store,
leveraging Google Cloud’s Orbitera technology, will be released
within the coming year. This App Store will provide small and
medium business customers access to applications beyond shipping
and mailing that will further enhance their productivity and
digital initiatives.
Pitney Bowes is leveraging the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud to
deliver these Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The
combination of applications on the newly released SendPro C-Series
device and those offered through the Pitney Bowes App Store will
help small and medium businesses grow by reducing the complexity
and cost of shipping and mailing. It will help them more
effectively market and communicate with their customers by
leveraging the applications made available through the Pitney Bowes
App Store. The Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud leverages Google Cloud’s
Apigee API management platform to enable open integrations and
rapid new service creation by Pitney Bowes and third party
developers.
“The new Small Business Partner Program from Pitney Bowes
represents another major milestone in our transformative journey,”
said Mark Shearer, executive vice president and president, Pitney
Bowes Global SMB Solutions. “Creating this partner ecosystem gives
our more than 1 million small and medium businesses and ecommerce
clients the opportunity to use a broad range of cloud and mobile
enabled business applications to better reach their clients, manage
their operations more effectively and ultimately grow their
businesses. Our digital platform creates an entirely new client
experience and offers the flexibility to quickly add more partner
applications and bring even greater value to our small business
client base in the near future.”
“Businesses everywhere are harnessing the power of the cloud and
APIs to deliver rich, connected experiences for their customers,”
said Chet Kapoor, vice president of Google’s Apigee group. “Pitney
Bowes is an excellent example of a company that is rapidly
transforming and redefining a traditional industry with modern,
data-driven, solutions. We are proud that the Apigee API platform
has been enabling Pitney Bowes' digital transformation for many
years -- and that they are now leveraging other Google Cloud
technologies to further enhance their offerings for
small-and-medium business customers.”
Pitney Bowes Small Business Partner
Program
Last year, Pitney Bowes launched the Pitney Bowes Commerce
Cloud, a commerce enabler that provides access to solutions,
analytics and APIs across the full commerce continuum to help
clients identify customers, locate opportunities, enable
communications, power shipping from anywhere to everywhere, and
manage payments. Adding these new partner applications creates an
entirely new and improved client experience, while offering
tremendous value to businesses looking to more effectively connect
with clients. The Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud provides access to
many new Partner Program applications and useful integrations
between Pitney Bowes and partner offerings including:
- Google G Suite (SaaS
Productivity Suite)- a cloud-based productivity suite that helps
teams communicate, collaborate and get things done from anywhere
and on any device. Pitney Bowes clients will be able to subscribe
to the Google G-Suite directly from their Pitney Bowes’ Your
Account webpage.
- Yext (Digital Marketing) – Yext
puts business on the map. The Yext Knowledge Engine™ lets companies
manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100
maps, apps, search engines, GPS systems, and social networks in the
PowerListings® Network, including Google, Apple, Facebook, Bing,
and Yahoo. Yext helps businesses around the globe facilitate
face-to-face and digital interactions that boost brand awareness,
drive foot traffic, and increase sales.
"Yext's mission is to put every business in control of its
digital knowledge everywhere," said Jonathan Cherins, executive
vice president, Partnerships, Yext. "We're proud to partner with
Pitney Bowes to help companies of every size stay competitive and
drive more business."
- Promote by Acquisio (Digital
Marketing) – an advertising solution that helps businesses get new
customers on Google AdWords with zero expertise needed. Promote
uses machine learning and automation to create tailored ads for
180+ business categories instantly, plus provides optimization,
on-the-go text notifications for incoming leads and tracking of all
recorded incoming calls from ads.
“We’re proud to partner with Pitney Bowes, a company as
dedicated to the success of small businesses as Acquisio. Local
businesses simply do not have the time or expertise to grow their
business with online advertising. We are solving that problem with
a dead simple, yet sophisticated tool that automates everything for
them - so they don’t have to pay agency fees and still get the best
possible campaign performance available on the market,” said Marc
Poirier, chief executive officer, Acquisio.
- Nimble CRM (Digital Sales and
Marketing) - Nimble is a simple social sales and marketing CRM that
helps you grow your business. Nimble works seamlessly with
Microsoft Office 365 and Google GSuite to enable companies to
intelligently nurture relationships across email and social
networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN and everywhere they
work.
“As social media and the cloud continue to revolutionize the way
people buy, businesses are scrambling to find new ways to manage
relationships at scale,” said Jon Ferrara, chief executive officer,
Nimble Inc. “We are delighted to partner with Pitney Bowes and help
ecommerce customers cultivate relationships in an authentic way by
replacing spreadsheets, impersonal email blasts and time-consuming
Google searches with auto-generated social business insights on
people and companies.”
- DocuSign (eSignature) – DocuSign
is the global eSignature and digital transaction management (DTM)
leader, with over 300,000 customers and more than 200 million users
around the world. The company’s solutions enable people to sign,
send and manage documents anytime, anywhere, on any device, with
confidence, and they replace printing, faxing, scanning and
overnighting documents with the easiest, fastest, most trusted way
to make every approval and decision digital.
“We are excited to join the Small Business Partner Program from
Pitney Bowes Partner to help SMBs in their digital transformation
journey. Our leadership in eSignatures combined with Pitney Bowes’
leadership in customer communication will help those SMBs optimize
their operations and grow their business,” said Mark Register,
senior vice president: business development and channels,
DocuSign.
Over time, Pitney Bowes SMB clients will be able to leverage
their Pitney Bowes Purchase Power payments solutions for a broader
set of Pitney Bowes and third party services. This will provide
tremendous convenience, help with cash flow, and loyalty program
benefits.
SendPro C-Series
Last week, Pitney Bowes introduced the SendPro C-Series, which
transforms the traditional postage meter into an all-in-one office
sending solution. It is a multi-carrier platform that enables
offices of all sizes to select the ideal sending option for every
parcel, letter and flat they send, while also providing full
tracking and delivering savings across carriers.
The C-Series is based on the mobile Android operating system and
the new Pitney Bowes Small Business Partner Program, and will allow
Pitney Bowes to deliver a broad range of new web and android
applications directly and rapidly to the device.
At launch, the C-Series featured three partner applications in
addition to its core shipping and mailing applications:
- USPS – access popular USPS.com
tools; calculate shipping prices, find a Post Office, look up a Zip
Code, schedule a next-day pickup, request USPS to hold your mail,
access Informed Delivery to track packages and digitally preview
incoming mail.
- Universal Tracking with Google
Maps - a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx,
and other major carriers’ package's progress with Google Maps.
- Mailing and Shipping Advisory
Tool - provides a simple overview of all the popular services
and terms provided by carriers. This allows customers to quickly
learn terminology and services to make informed decisions on
selecting services for their mailing and shipping needs.
The SendPro C-Series leverages Smartlink Internet of Things
(IoT) technology to improve ease of use, enable new services and
provide visibility and control over postage and shipping spend.
AutoInk enables just in time ink deliveries at significant cost
savings. AutoPostage refills and AutoRate updates ensure the system
is always accurate, up to date and ready to use. The Commerce Cloud
Insights dashboard provides analytics on mailing and shipping
spend, trends and savings opportunities.
To enable optimized software delivery on the newly released
SendPro C-Series, Pitney Bowes will be utilizing VMware Workspace
ONE™ powered by VMware AirWatch® unified endpoint management (UEM)
technology.
“Company leaders, particularly small business owners, do not
have time to constantly worry about updating and securing the tools
they use to run their business,” said Noah Wasmer, senior vice
president, Mobile Products, End-User Computing, VMware. “By
leveraging Workspace ONE, Pitney Bowes’ clients can benefit from a
simple, over-the-air process when it comes to updating their
SendPro C-Series software as well as advanced security features so
data is protected on IoT devices.”
Today, we are also announcing a Global Hackathon open to
millions of developers to create applications on the C-Series
device platform. Pitney Bowes has partnered with Google Developer
Group, and other major technology developer communities to source
developers that will create next generation applications for small
and mid-sized businesses. This global developer community will
collaborate on the C-Series platform to accelerate the innovation
that will drive outcomes for small and mid-sized businesses.
Continuous Innovation
The Pitney Bowes App Store will continue to grow over time and
create more value for small and medium businesses and ecommerce
clients by delivering solutions with speed and agility that help
solve real business challenges. The Pitney Bowes App Store will
feature even more relevant applications over the course of the
coming year. This may also include the ability to purchase
applications as well as offering single sign on to allow small
businesses a means to access many applications in a simpler
way.
Shipping will drive the next phase of our transformation. Last
week we announced our intention to acquire Newgistics, an Austin,
Texas-based provider of parcel delivery, returns, fulfillment and
digital commerce solutions for retailers and ecommerce brands
selling in the U.S. The SendPro C-Series family of products and
shipping solutions, combined with our acquisition of Newgistics
strengthens our presence in the shipping and sending market.
For the last 100 years, Pitney Bowes has taken the complexity
out of the mail process through innovation, technology and
services. Today, the Company continues to expand its expertise by
combining the strength of physical mail and shipping with digital
experiences in mailing and shipping, Presort and Global Ecommerce
to simplify the challenges and complexity of the growing parcel
market.
For more information, go to www.pb.com.
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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