IDG Contributor Network: Vonage, on the back of its Nexmo acquisition, tries to do a Twilio
If enterprise agility and innovation is the key to survival and success, then much of those outcomes will be driven by enterprise developers building solutions -- be they internally facing ones or eternal customer-facing ones. In the quest to enable developers to build more quickly and efficiently, we have seen a huge growth in modular developer tools that offload a specific functional area thus allowing developers to focus on what really counts -- coming up with creative solutions.
One functional area that has seen strong developer tool activity is the broader communications one. This is perhaps unsurprising since communications functionality -- be it voice, video, SMS or whatever -- is an integral tool on most applications. After all, Uber wouldn’t be Uber without the ability for riders to contact drivers.
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