{"id":24987,"date":"2022-09-15T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:24:07","slug":"introducing-poly-api-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/introducing-poly-api-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Poly API Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today we\u2019re excited to launch the Poly API Marketplace, a new platform where the Poly developer community can find, connect to and manage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) across Poly\u2019s vast partner ecosystem. The Poly API Marketplace is an open, future-proof platform with support for dozens of API types, including those from our awesome Poly Lens<\/a><\/span> insights and management platform and Poly Clariti<\/a><\/span> \u2013 our highly secure meeting platform.<\/p>\n Why has a communication company like Poly gone through the effort of opening an API marketplace to foster and support a community of developers? Because we listened to you – our partners and customers.<\/p>\n Hybrid work, transitions to the cloud, divergence from standards and a return to office have all led to a crowded marketplace of unified communication offerings, which has in turn made managing these separate, yet critical systems incredibly complex. The Poly API Marketplace centralizes our APIs into a single location while providing visibility into all the available developer assets across Poly\u2019s products.<\/p>\n You told us you needed an API marketplace platform that enabled developers to discover relevant APIs, fostered developer community support and offered fast integration with code snippets in multiple languages. Poly provided the APIs and RapidAPI<\/a><\/span> helped us bring the Poly API Marketplace to reality. \u201cMeeting the experts at RapidAPI was all it took,\u201d said Robert Manassero, Director of Product Management at Poly. RapidAPI is the world\u2019s largest API hub with more than four million developers that discover test and connect more than 40,000 APIs.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Poly API Marketplace makes it easy to find everything, catalog and access tools, and with the continual expansion of new developer experiences from the teams at RapidAPI, the Poly API Marketplace will only get better over time. Empowering a positive and collaborative developer experience is primarily why we picked RapidAPI to partner with on this initiative,\u201d explains Robert.<\/p>\n Rory Ferguson, Senior Product Manager at Poly, adds, \u201cThe marketplace brings us closer to the developer community allowing them to innovate and customize our products in ways we hadn\u2019t thought about. We at Poly are excited to see partners and customers leveraging the Poly API Marketplace to create high-value solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n Another important goal with the marketplace was to build a community, complete with a \u201cplayground\u201d, where developers can meet, share ideas, test those ideas, tear them down and rebuild them to continually improve. \u201cWe want to facilitate, encourage and support our developer community in every way possible to ensure our mutual success as we build new collaboration experiences together,\u201d said Rory.<\/p>\n \u201cThe guiding principle of the new API marketplace is to provide our developer community opportunities to innovate and create in ways that continue to build new experiences, making collaboration easier for everyone by leveraging our platforms. Of course, building a rich community of developers takes time and expertise. We can\u2019t wait to see what this community creates,\u201d explains Robert.<\/p>\n Poly API Marketplace was born from our private video conferencing software, Poly Clariti<\/a>,<\/span> and our cloud-based device management and insights platform, Poly Lens<\/a><\/span>, where there has been a growing need to share and leverage existing APIs within the Poly ecosystem. Over the last two years, Poly has been laser focused on consolidating the management and insights platform into Poly Lens, which encompasses our entire Poly portfolio of video and voice technology, from personal devices to large room systems.<\/p>\n With the introduction of Poly API Marketplace, we are empowering organizations with the tools they need to create a single pane of glass centered around their entire unified communications infrastructure. This means simplified management, monitoring and reporting\u2014all of which make life easier for IT teams and service providers. With this, IT professionals will be able to customize the end user experience, improve response times, enable faster onboarding and build custom dashboards for return-on-investment calculations.<\/p>\n We have already seen creative uses of APIs with Poly Clariti. For example, a large government contractor in Europe is using Poly APIs to customize call scheduling. The standardized approach has benefited the large organization by simplifying a common task and, therefore, speeding the call entry process. Another creative use has come from a global consultancy firm who used APIs to provide recording controls, meeting a business need for centrally recorded meetings. Rory explains, \u201cIn some cases, call recording is set to automatic mode to meet the policy requirements, while others are more on-demand recordings\u2014but all of them are powered by our Poly API flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n Poly and RapidAPI\u2019s partnership is a perfect fit, matching our shared commitment to the developer community. Together, we provide an optimized, approachable experience. Customers with private video infrastructure will look towards the marketplace to further grow custom applications in their specialized environments, while other organizations will consistently leverage robust data and management from Poly Lens into their own platforms. The capabilities for video and voice collaboration will continue to evolve and grow, which is exciting news for Poly and our customers.<\/p>\nEnabling Developers<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Examples Available to the Poly Developer Community<\/h4>\n
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Accessibility, Support and Community<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Poly Lens and Poly Clariti<\/strong><\/h4>\n
A New Horizon for Customers <\/strong><\/h4>\n