New APIs let developers cash in on Jigsaw

SAN MATEO, USA: Jigsaw, solution provider for Data as a Service (DaaS), has released a suite of APIs and a toolkit that allow developers to deliver company profiles and detailed, up-to-date contact data from inside their web, desktop or mobile applications.

Jigsaw also launched a new developer program so companies integrating Jigsaw can give free Jigsaw data to customers, let their customers use their own Jigsaw accounts to acquire contact data, or resell Jigsaw data and add a new revenue stream to their business.

"Jigsaw's HTTP interface enabled Basho to implement an integration in a matter of days, while other SOAP-based b2b APIs took weeks or even months,” said Andy Gross, Basho vice president of engineering.

“By embracing HTTP and standard data formats like JSON, Jigsaw's API enables much deeper and richer integrations at a fraction of the cost. Our client code was less than a fifth of the size of similar SOAP-based services," added Gross.

“Sugar Professional now ships with Jigsaw integrated right into the application so our customers can easily acquire and use Jigsaw company data at no charge,” said Clint Oram, SugarCRM co-founder and vice president of products.

We had two goals for developers in our program: to make it easy for them to implement and to provide them a real opportunity to make money,” said Ethan Prater, vice president of Technology Alliances at Jigsaw.

Jigsaw designed its program to drive a meaningful business result for developers, so they can deliver clear, recognizable value to their customers, added Prater.

Jigsaw is supporting developers with three different program levels. Bronze is free and includes forum access and web support, Silver includes 10 incidents and next-day phone support, and Gold provides unlimited, same-day web and phone support.