Nylas named a 2023 Gartner® Cool Vendor

Recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2023 Gartner “Cool Vendors™ in Composable Customer Engagement Platforms report”

PALO ALTO – October 17, 2023 – Nylas, the state-of-the-art communications platform giving developers universal access to email, calendar, and contacts providers through a single API integration, today announced it has been named a 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor in the Gartner report titled, “Cool Vendors in Composable Customer Engagement Platforms,” by Gartner analysts Pankil Sheth, Lisa Unden-Farboud, Daniel O’Connell, Brian Doherty, and Ajit Patankar. According to Gartner, “Enterprises seeking to build and drive deeper customer engagement and strengthen employee experience with APIs and SDE must look outside traditional use cases of CPaaS tools.”

“While many have called for the death of email, the reality is that email remains the most used communications channel on the planet. As a result, email and calendars continue to remain a fundamental piece of business workflows and customer journeys,” said Gleb Polyakov, Co-Founder & CEO of Nylas. “We believe being recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor is a testament to our commitment to streamlining processes and building cycles for developers and helping businesses increase customer satisfaction without compromising on operational costs and productivity.”

Despite volatile market conditions, CPaaS continues to be one of the fastest-growing technology markets. A key driver of this is the continued growth of APIs. In their 2023 State of Developer Experience report, Nylas found that 98% of developers view APIs as a key contributor to helping themselves and their teams get their work done while 86% of developers expect their use of APIs to increase in the coming year.

According to Gartner, “More businesses are realizing the time and money-saving benefits of purchasing APIs from a full-stack CPaaS provider or a composable customer engagement provider. Paid API offerings are easier to adopt and have a shorter learning curve. They involve as little coding as possible and include comprehensive documentation and catalogs. These features make them easy to implement, allowing businesses to consistently upgrade their channels as needed.”

Additionally, Gartner research shows that “By 2025, 95% of global enterprises will utilize API-enabled communication platform as a service (CPaaS) offerings.”

“All leading enterprises today harness customer engagement and user experiences to fuel growth and business efficiency. Increasingly companies are turning to CPaaS solutions to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty without overextending their development resources,” said Alex Moore, Partner at 8VC and member of the Nylas Board of Directors. “For us, Nylas’ recognition as a Cool Vendor demonstrates their ability to arm companies with the communications infrastructure they need to modernize their customer engagement.”

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Gartner, Cool Vendors in Composable Customer Engagement Platforms, Pankil Sheth, Lisa Unden-Farboud, Daniel O’Connell, et al., 5 September 2023

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About Nylas
Hundreds of thousands of developers around the world use Nylas to increase velocity and seamlessly build customizable email and scheduling capabilities through state-of-the-art APIs. Nylas is the only platform giving developers universal access to email, calendar, and contacts providers through a single integration. Companies like Upwork, Rippling, Wix, Salesloft, Crunchbase, and more turn to Nylas to quickly and securely launch critical features, enabling them to spend less time on their infrastructure and more time building software with limitless potential.

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