Pitney Bowes Leveraging Apigee to Power its Innovation in Commerce

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 04, 2016 -- Apigee® (NASDAQ:APIC), developer of an intelligent API platform for digital business, today announced that it has been selected by Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides products and solutions that power commerce, for API management.

Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that enables its clients, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 200 retailers and 1.5 million small businesses, to succeed in the physical and digital world of commerce. The company is in the midst of a multi-year corporate transformation focused on growing revenue through a broad set of digital businesses in software and ecommerce services, optimizing its own operations globally, and transforming its mailing and shipping business with digital technologies.  Pitney Bowes is leveraging the Apigee Edge API management software to deliver new services, such as location intelligence, shipping, and financial services, for its customers.  Pitney Bowes is also leveraging Apigee’s API management software to enable innovation by both Pitney Bowes and third party developers.

“In our borderless world, the lines between physical and digital commerce are becoming increasingly blurred,” said James Fairweather, Pitney Bowes’ Senior Vice President of Technology. “Pitney Bowes’ goal is to create modern technology solutions with precision and accuracy for this new complex world of commerce, and Apigee’s technology helps make this possible.”

Today, Pitney Bowes solutions include mailing and shipping, customer information management, customer engagement, location intelligence, and global ecommerce. The company is using APIs (application programming interfaces) and Apigee to help securely deliver new data-powered digital solutions to customers, and to enable its internal and external developers to build new products more quickly.

“In today’s accelerated business environment, enterprises need to speed up the pace with which they innovate and adapt to rapidly changing customer and market needs,“ said Chet Kapoor, Apigee CEO. “Digital transformation with APIs is a key part of enabling Pitney Bowes to power billions of transactions across the physical and digital landscape and help shape and refine the world of commerce. We are proud to be part of their digital success.”

Apigee’s flagship Apigee Edge API management software empowers organizations to securely deliver and manage APIs, with agility and at scale. Apigee Edge is part of the Apigee intelligent API platform, which also includes Apigee Insights, an API-based, self-service predictive analytics solution, and Apigee Link, an API-first Internet of Things (IoT) product for connecting devices to the Internet. Most recently, Apigee introduced Apigee Sense, an intelligent API security product.

About Apigee

Apigee® (NASDAQ:APIC) provides an intelligent API platform for digital business. Many of the world's largest organizations select Apigee to enable their digital business, including 30 percent of the Fortune 100, five of the top six Global 2000 retail companies, and five of the top 10 global telecommunications companies. Apigee customers include global enterprises such as Walgreens, Burberry, Morningstar, and First Data. Apigee is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information, go to http://apigee.com.

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