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Appfire announces a partnership with monday.com to expand the monday.com app marketplace.
This partnership will enable monday.com customers to find apps that fit the unique needs of their business workflows, processes, and projects – all in one place. With Appfire's track record of easy-to-use, powerful, and reliable apps for the world's most reputable tech companies, including, Atlassian, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Microsoft Teams and Slack, joining the monday.com marketplace ecosystem exemplifies Appfire's ongoing commitment to connect every team so they can plan and deliver their best work.
monday.com first launched its marketplace in 2022, giving users, partners and builders the freedom to quickly build apps on top of the monday.com platform, making it easier than ever to extend it to support their ever-growing needs. Since its launch, the monday.com marketplace has seen over 1.5 million visitors, 380,000 app installs and over 220 apps built. With this partnership, Appfire begins a long-term effort to grow the monday.com app marketplace based on the maturity and varied nature of its customers and its scale. Appfire will work with monday.com to build and develop new apps of all sizes, shapes, and forms that meet the growing needs of the monday.com community.
"From the moment we started talking, it was clear that our values and passion for innovation and improving the way teams work together were perfectly aligned," said Randall Ward, Co-founder and CEO of Appfire. "There is a massive opportunity with monday.com – they have an incredible platform and marketplace...By partnering together, we are ultimately combining resources and skills of two talented teams to further push boundaries and develop one of the most innovative marketplaces in the world. The apps we are launching will further support organizations during the next era of digital transformation."
"Since launching our marketplace last year, our users, partners, and builders have benefited from the ability to efficiently build apps on top of the monday.com platform," said Tal Haramati, Tech Lead at monday.com. "Partnering with an industry leader like Appfire represents our continued investment in elevating our marketplace to the next level and bringing our users the best-in-class apps for every professional need they have."
To kick off the partnership, Appfire is planning multiple apps to optimize monday.com users' workflow and enable monday.com customers to address a wider set of use cases. The first apps to be released in the coming months will be Planning Poker and Dashboard Hub. To drive innovation and collaboration, Appfire plans to launch additional products on the monday.com app marketplace, including products that will help distributed teams collaborate, plan, visualize, deliver, and track their work.
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