LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwired) — 10/15/14 — acceleration, today announced that its customer base in Europe doubled in the company–s last fiscal year, signaling increasing demand for technologies that enable businesses to transform for today–s mobile, data-driven environment. Current Apigee customers in Europe today include , , , , , , , , , , , and , among many other leading companies.
“Never has there been a greater urgency for businesses across all industries to embrace digital to remain relevant in today–s mobile-first world,” said Chet Kapoor, Apigee CEO. “Data delivered by APIs powers digital business, and it–s proving to be a vital way to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
“We–re seeing considerable demand and growth across Europe — from leading-edge technology companies to traditional brick-and-mortar businesses looking to reinvent themselves for today–s marketplace.”
Apigee also announced the appointment of Denis Dorval as vice president, EMEA to address the demand for European businesses to become digital and create an ecosystem of application innovation with APIs and data analytics. Denis joins with a wealth of experience in high-growth businesses, having held senior roles at Alfresco, FileNet and Webedisoft.
Apigee–s European headquarters are in London, and it has teams in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
Apigee helps organisations in a wide range of industries become digital businesses, leveraging their digital assets to fundamentally change the way they bring value to customers, partners and employees. Through APIs and big data predictive analytics, Apigee helps businesses move at the new speed of the digital economy, while predicting and continuously adapting to change.
Apigee–s API platform, , is purpose-built for the digital economy, delivering what businesses need to manage the digital value chain from API exposure to API consumption — and to measure the success of an API program with end-to-end analytics. Edge includes three components: API Services, Developer Services and Analytics Services.
As part of the company–s product portfolio for digital businesses, Apigee also offers — a powerful big data predictive analytics platform that helps businesses engage with customers by anticipating their needs and addressing them with adaptive apps.
In a recent report by market research firm Forrester Research, Inc. , Apigee was recognised as a Leader in API management, citing it to be particularly strong in analytics and its comprehensive solution that includes value-added functions. In a separate Forrester report, “Applying The Forrester Wave: API Management Solutions, Q3 2014,” Apigee received the top score for current offering in the “API Service Providers” scenario — the use case for organisations whose API strategy is to create a new source of revenue by charging for use of its APIs.
(1) that by 2020, “more than 7 billion people and businesses, and at least 35 billion devices, will be connected to the Internet.” To compete in this always-on connected world, businesses must digitise their models to move at “Internet speed” and deliver true customer value. Recent (2) also emphasises the digital business imperative, with 93 per cent of executives surveyed in its 2014 Digital Business Online Survey believing that digital will disrupt their business in the next 12 months.
Philips Lighting leverages the Apigee API platform to power digital innovation in lighting. “Through our open APIs and Apigee, developers are creating new ways to harness the Philips Hue programmable LED lighting system so that people can, for example, personalize the color of a light globe to remind them to feed their dog or to indicate current weather, all using apps from a smartphone,” said Kevin Toms, developer program architect for Philips Hue.
Philips was named one of the most innovative companies in 2014 by Fast Company magazine, and it recently won an Apigee 2014 Digital Accelerator Award for the “Top API for the Internet of Things.”
In April 2014, to meet accelerating demand for digital business technologies. Apigee is investing to accelerate across all areas of its business to keep up with demand for APIs and big data analytics, as enterprises increasingly embrace these technologies for digital business.
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Apigee provides a leading technology platform for digital business acceleration. Through APIs and big data, Apigee delivers the speed, scale, and agility businesses need to compete in today–s connected mobile world. Many of the world–s largest and most respected organizations have selected Apigee to enable their digital business, including 20 percent of the Fortune 100 and 25 percent of Fortune–s World–s Most Admired Companies. Apigee customers include global enterprises such as Walgreens, eBay, Shell, Live Nation, Kaiser Permanente and Sears. Apigee is headquartered in San Jose, California and has about 500 employees worldwide.
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(1) Gartner report: “Digital Businesses Will Compete and Seek Opportunity in the Span of a Moment,” March 2014:
(2) Forrester Research, Inc. report: “Unleash Your Digital Business, The Future Of Business Is Digital,” March 2014:
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