As I explore through API portals, looking for the successful approaches to APIs, I’m increasingly seeing formal partner programs, resulting in me expanding the topic as its own research area. My objective is to keep track of how the APIs I track on operate their partner programs, resulting in the list of organizations I reference in my research. I also want to try and identify what some of the common building blocks of API partner programs are, in addition to the news stories that I have curated about partnerships–which is the fuel of my research.
I have recorded 31 separate partner programs, which I found through the course of my API monitoring and research.
- Amazon Web Services
- AssureSign
- CallFire
- Cloudflare
- Constant Contact
- Dandelion
- Developer Media
- Disqus
- DocuSign
- Dyn
- eBay
- Eventbrite API
- Gigya
- InfusionSoft
- Mailjet
- Moz
- MYOB API
- Salesforce
- SendGrid
- Shopify
- SurveyMonkey
- The Guardian
- Twilio
- VerticalResponse
- Xero
These are all companies who have formal partner efforts that provide a higher level of access to their API. There are many companies who feel their developer programs is a partner program, but what I am looking for is a partner program that looks to certify developers, and give them more benefits through deeper participation with a platform.
After looking through these companies I’ve recorded a handful of what I’d consider to be some of the common building blocks of these API partner programs.
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