Pitney Bowes SMB Challenge

What we are offering?

Developer APIs

Solve your business problems with enterprise-class commerce technology from Pitney Bowes.

Identify
Break down names and addresses, correct and validate your data, then add insight about your customers.

Locate APIs , Location Intelligence for Marketing APIs
Incorporate our extensive geodata into everyday applications, businesses processes and workflows.

Ship , Duty Calculator APIs
Easily integrate USPS services into your platform and identify Duties & Taxes for internal shipments.

Partner APIs

Xamarin toolkit from Microsoft
Xamarin brings the power and productivity of .NET to iOS and Android, reusing skills and code while getting access to the native APIs and performance

Zoho Creator platform
Zoho Creator is an app development platform that is part of the Zoho suite. It is a cloud-based development environment that allows developers to build database-backed enterprise apps for the web and mobile - in a seamless and integrated manner. This provides businesses the ability to empower their workforce with apps so that business processes can be executed with speed, agility and accuracy. Users can create apps as easily as creating documents, distribute using email and organize like they manage documents. Power comes from our scripting, integrations and web design components. Mobility, for these apps is a frictionless integrant. This combination is our USP.

Algorithmia is an open marketplace for algorithms, enabling developers to create tomorrows smart applications today. It gives developers the ability to turn algorithms into scalable web services with a single click. Application developers can then integrate the algorithm into their own applications with under 10 lines of code. Algorithmia hosts the web services , makes them discoverable and enables algorithm developers to get paid for usage

• Register at Algorithmia.com with API code: HackPB
• Developer instructions are at developers.algorithmia.com
• Use cases for inspiration are at: algorithmia.com/use-cases

Cloud Credits

We would be offering Cloud Credits to Developers

Sample Data sets

Sample Data sets compatible with SendPro C Series device

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How to get started?

Getting Started

1. Get your API Keys
http://www.pitneybowes.com/us/developer/getting-started.html

2. Using Sample Data sets

• One of the key functionality of SendPro is to maintain company address book with details on customers and their location
• We have simulated an API to get the addresses in the following link

3. Using available Partner APIs and Open source

• Developers are free to choose from our Partner APIs and other Third Party APIs to build their solutions

4. Creating a Sample app

• Create your apps on tools like Android Studio etc. and submit your SDKs to Hackerearth platform

5. Guidelines on Submitting App

• PDF/Doc with Executive summary on the application and its capabilities
• Fully functional app or web portal with full documentation
• Submit your application with source code on Hackerearth portal in a .Zip format
• You are expected to come up with new and innovative ideas, any idea that has been copied from somewhere will be disqualified

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Sample Apps

Explore our Sample apps

Sample App 1

Use Case:
Targeted Marketing to nearby customers

Description:
All address of the day’s shipments can be used to find out which addresses fall within a travel boundary (drive time) of 60 minutes. These customers can be sent out promotional leaflets for example, offering them same day delivery if they order before noon and ship to the same address. The shortlisted addresses along with customer name, can be fed into a marketing template and sent to printer connected to SendPro machine. These promotional leaflets can be sent along with the actual shipment.

Technology:

Locate APIs used/showcased:

• Geocoding API (to geocode shipping addresses)
• GeoZone API (to get travel boundary around the place of business)
• GeoMap API (to show business location and the shipping addresses within the travel boundary on map)

Github Link

Sample App 2

Use case:
Demographic information of a customer.

Description:
The app showcases PBs capabilities to enrich customer information with demographic information and these additional attributes can be further used to create customer segments and run marketing campaigns.

Technology

Uses Pitney bowes Identify & Locate APIs:

• IdentifyAddress
• GeoLife

Github Link

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