Intuit Partner Platform team blog

Scaling New Heights Tech Track

Sign up and join us for our inaugural tech track at Scaling New Heights in June:

https://developer.intuit.com/snh/SNHTechTrack.htm

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Best,

Intuit Partner Platform team

IPP Developers Win $100,000 at Intuit Apps Showcase

What amazing day yesterday...the IPP team had a blast and all of the developers of the 30 apps that made the finals delivered awesome demos during the day.

Here's the official Intuit press release announcing the 4 winners - Corelytics, Bill.com, Postcard Services and Profitably - who each received $25,000 in prize money, and a special congrats to Corelytics who also took the grand prize - to be featured in a targeted marketing campaign that will promote the app directly to Intuit's 4.5 million QuickBooks(R) customers through its many marketing channels.

And a big thanks to all 30 developers, the ton of QuickBooks customers and Pro Advisors who made up the audience, the VCs who judged the competition - everyone who participated to make it such a sucessful and fun event. Rock stars!

We plan to make the video of the app demos available online soon, in the meantime check out their awesome apps!!

Looking forward to the next one!!!

IPP Team.

Join us for the August IPP CloudJam!

You’re invited to join us for a two-day IPP CloudJam in Mountain View, CA, August 9-10, 2011. Attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate with Intuit to build their SaaS business on the Intuit Partner Platform. We can help you get your application to market quickly and start selling it to the millions of QuickBooks small business customers via the Intuit Workplace App Center.

This event is focused for ISV: Developers / Architects, VP / Manager of Business Development, VP / Manager of Marketing. 

You’ll meet the Intuit Partner Platform team and learn more about:

• Intuit Anywhere
• IPP Marketing Opportunities
• Traditional IPP application development 
  • Build natively on the Intuit Partner Platform
  • Federate your existing SaaS application
• Intuit's Open Source Community: Code.Intuit.com

IPP CloudJams are a great way to get your application to market quickly!  Applications and open source projects that started at our previous CloudJams have already been published on the Intuit App Center.

Tickets are free, but limited. Register today to secure your place. We’ll award the tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.   

Please visit the website or registration page for more information. 

Date: Tuesday, August 9th - Wednesday, August 10th
Location: Intuit Headquarters, Mountain View, CA 

Tickets are FREE—but limited. Register now!

Get more information and event details here.

See you there,
—The Intuit Partner Platform Team

 

The IPP team will be at TechCrunch Disrupt. Will you?

Join us at TechCrunch’s Disrupt Conference in New York City, May 24-26, 2010 and get involved in the variety of discussions about the evolving and challenging landscape between media and technology. TechCrunch Disrupt is the only conference that gathers both Web innovators disrupting media and technology and also executives successfully navigating disruption to talk about turning change into opportunity.

The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is a Product Sponsor at Disrupt so please stop by our table and say Hi! We’re eager to give you the latest news about the IPP, provide technical assistance, and learn more about you and how we can work together.

Check out TechCrunch’s blog about the Intuit App Center and the Intuit Partner Platform today.

Fresh from the IPP CloudJam: PHP Tools

Last week’s IPP CloudJam in Waltham was a blast. We had a great mix of people sharing their knowledge, hacking code and competing in three tracks separate technology tracks. One of those tracks was for the best OSS IPP solution.

During the first day, a lot of energy gathered around building PHP components and Drupal Modules for IPP. There are a few PHP federated applications being developed, another developer is involved with the civiCRM project, and a longtime IDN developer, Keith Palmer of Consolibyte, has been developing Open Source PHP tools to integrate with QuickBooks for some time.

Keith cornered me the first evening to help him understand how to call IPP APIs from PHP. Using the IPP Java DevKit as a pattern, Keith started work building out a set of PHP tools to integrate with IPP. When we came in the next morning, Keith had a working demo using a subset of the API.

Long story short, Keith won the OSS track competition and has launched a PHP DevKit project on code.intuit.com. Not only have all of the PHP developers from the CloudJam joined the project, the Intuit Connect engineers at Intuit have also joined (and they were not even at the CloudJam or part of the IPP team).

If you are a PHP developer and interested in IPP, you should check out the PHP DevKit project on code.intuit.com.

Are you near Boston and into Windows Azure?

Are you near Boston and into Windows Azure? Then you should know about the Boston Azure User Group - food, drink and lots of Azure provided! 

Tomorrow night (3/5) 3/25 I'll be joined by Jarred Keneally to discuss the Windows Azure SDK for IPP and how easy it is for developers to:

• federate Azure-hosted SaaS apps into IPP
• integrate those apps with QuickBooks data using IPP's Intuit Data Services API
• and sell those apps to millions of Intuit customers on Intuit Workplace App Center.

Hope to see you there!

3 New Live IPP Technical Webinars for January - Register Now!

We’ve got 3 great live webinars in January discussing technical aspects of IPP: “What’s New in 2.4 of IPP”, “IPP Intuit Data Services (IDS) Deep Dive" and “Enhancing your Federated Application”. We’ve also got live IPP Developer Support sessions every two weeks, the next one on Jan 12.

Registration details are below…see you there!

Intuit Partner Platform: What's New in v2.4 of IPP

Deep dive look at the new data and features released in v2.4 of the Intuit Partner Platform

Register for Session: 

• Thursday, January 14, 2010, 10:00 am - 11:00am PST

Intuit Partner Platform: Intuit Data Services (IDS) Deep Dive

Deep Dive into the connecting your Intuit Partner Platform Application with QuickBooks data via IPP Intuit Data Services (IDS) API).

Register for Session:

• Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10:00am - 11:00am PST

Intuit Partner Platform: Enhancing your Federated Application

Already have a SaaS application and need help with the Federation process?  Want to know what's involved to create a federated App?  Then join us for a deep dive look at the enhancing your Federated IPP Application.

Register for Session: 

• Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:00am - 11:00am PST

Intuit Partner Platform Real Time Support

Real Time Support and Q&A with the Intuit Partner Platform Architect's and Engineers. Have your questions answered live!

Register for session:

• Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 10:00am - 11:00am PST

Startups and the Cloud - Video 3 (of 5) - Intuit Founder, Scott Cook Q&A

In June Intuit hosted the "Startups and the Cloud" event bringing together industry experts and successful SaaS startups to discuss a range of issues startups must consider to build a successful business and get an idea to market as quickly as possible.

At the event we were joined by Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the chairman of the Executive Committee. Scott was interviewed by Bill Lucchini (VP of the Intuit’s PaaS Group discussing how cloud computing can foster innovation and how an intense focus on customer needs enables businesses to deliver successful products.

This was also the day that Microsoft announced its plans to stop selling Microsoft Money. As this article puts it:

“The defeat of Microsoft Money at the hands of Intuit's Quicken marks a rare chapter in the annals of software history.

Intuit is one of the few companies to take Microsoft head-on on its home turf--packaged software--and come out on top. Even more notably, Intuit has managed to do it several times, with Quicken of course, but also with QuickBooks and TurboTax.”

It was a special day for Scott and Intuit, and we were very fortunate to have him at the event in person to share his perspective not only on that monumental battle but also few stories about Intuit's early days as a startup, how he sees opportunities for startups in today's economic climate, the importance on solving real customer problems, his excitement around the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) and the world of SaaS.

More videos from the event:

• Video 1: Welcome, by Bill Lucchini, VP and GM, Platform as a Service Group, Intuit (@wapl).
• Video 2: State of cloud computing and the market opportunity” Vishy Venugopalan (@midtownninja) 

We’ll be publishing the rest of the videos (5 in total) over the next week. Enjoy!

Startups and the Cloud - Video 2 (of 5): State of cloud computing and the market opportunity

In June Intuit hosted the "Startups and the Cloud" event bringing together industry experts and successful SaaS startups to discuss a range of issues startups must consider to build a successful business and get an idea to market as quickly as possible.

Below is the second video (2 of 5): “State of cloud computing and the market opportunity” Vishy Venugopalan (@midtownninja) an analyst at Longworth Venture Partners. Prior to Longworth, Vishy was at The 451 Group, a enterprise IT research firm, where he provided research insights to technology companies and investors on enterprise software market segments.

In this talk, Vishy set the scene for the discussions ahead, describing the cloud computing market and the opportunities as he sees them.

Startups and the Cloud - Video 2 (of 5)

“State of cloud computing and the market opportunity”

We’ll be publishing the rest of the videos (5 in total) over the next couple weeks. You can check out the first video here.

Startups and the Cloud - Video 1 (of 5): Welcome

The choices startup Software as a Service (SaaS) providers have in this new age of “Cloud Computing” can be overwhelming, confusing and risky.

In June Intuit hosted the "Startups and the Cloud" event bringing together industry experts and successful SaaS startups to discuss a range of issues startups must consider to build a successful business and get an idea to market as quickly as possible.

At the event, we were joined by leading VCs and startups who shared their views and experiences about how to navigate the cloud provider space, as well as Intuit’s co-founder Scott Cook who discussed how cloud computing can foster innovation and how an intense focus on customer needs enables businesses to deliver successful products.

It was a successful event, with good attendance and some great content that emerged during the day. We also had a filming crew in attendance who recorded each of the main sessions. Over the next few days we’ll be publishing the recorded sessions (five in all).

Below is the first of the sessions – the event Welcome and introduction by Bill Lucchini, VP and GM, Platform as a Service Group, Intuit. Enjoy!

Startups and the Cloud - Video 1 (of 5) - Welcome