Now having been in testing for over six months, the company says its API is today being utilized by fifty developers so far, who have built news readers, vertical enterprise applications, dashboards, integration hubs, vertical communities, and more.
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The inter-connection with the physical hardware devices, namely accessing I/Os, is a crucial issue to achieve the vertical IT-enterprise integration in these service-oriented systems, covering the shop floor device control level.
We showcase a diversity of technology verticals (consumer, enterprise, mobile, hardware, etc), including funded and unfunded companies from all corners of the world.
There are many other verticals within enterprise software — from project management and marketing automation to business analytics — but CRM is especially interesting, given two factors: (1) Salesforce's involvement in the enterprise race and (2) CRM's role in driving revenue and business growth, making it one of the most valuable software categories in enterprise software.
As Sequoia Capital's Luis Robles told me, his company believes 10gen "is going to be a winner in the noSQL space, and the database market in general because MongoDB is easy to adopt and developers around the world are choosing it more frequently than the alternatives for a variety of 'big data' use cases across many verticals (web, enterprise, media, gaming, medical).
"I don't think anyone should be looking for some sort of big consumer hit product yet but in verticals in enterprise, and in some of the core tech enablers, some of the tool spaces, there's really big opportunities there".
That's included adding an enterprise vertical for corporate e-learning and teaming up more with third parties like Google to expand its reach to more captive audiences.
Healthcare is an enterprise vertical for Box, and is growing fast, says co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie.
We're excited about many themes, including mobile enterprise, vertical SaaS and predictive analytics, but one less-obvious trend involves people power as much as computing power.
Inevitably, the iPad became a sales tool across many verticals in the enterprise.
