Your SaaS needs a Plugin Marketplace
and Ecosystem to win.
Forge saves you the time and cost of building custom solutions.
Think you don't need one? Your competition would agree.
Forge saves you the time and cost of building custom solutions.
Think you don't need one? Your competition would agree.
Every software company has to constantly create value for customers.
How effectively that is done, will determine how successful your company will be at growing and beating your competition.
Companies that are not designed for extensibility limit their potential for success and incur a significant opportunity cost.
For startups, developing during a time of absolute uncertainty, it can mean the difference between validating the product-market fit or running out of cash.
For scale-ups, growing from 50 to 500 people brings organisational, cultural and architectural challenges that impede product execution and innovation just when it is needed to take the market.
Enterprises are at risk of being overtaken or disrupted by a more agile, flexible and extensible company that is able to iterate faster and build community relationships and network effects.
Every software company has to constantly create value for customers.
How effectively that is done, will determine how successful your company will be at growing and beating your competition.
Companies that are not designed for extensibility limit their potential for success and incur a significant opportunity cost.
For startups, developing during a time of absolute uncertainty, it can mean the difference between validating the product-market fit or running out of cash.
For scale-ups, growing from 50 to 500 people brings organisational, cultural and architectural challenges that impede product execution and innovation just when it is needed to take the market.
Enterprises are at risk of being overtaken or disrupted by a more agile, flexible and extensible company that is able to iterate faster and build community relationships and network effects.
See how the Forge Platform can unlock new channels for growth, through the creation of ecosystems and communities that add value to your product and serve your customers.
Forge is more than a software product.
It is your end-to-end Extensibility as a Service solution.
We take care of the entire developer experience so that extensions, plugins and apps are highly available and high performance.
Extensibility opens up potential risks. We actively manage those risks throughout the extension development lifecycle.
Extensibility requires engineering, product, marketing and operational collaboration. We make collaboration easy.
To build a platform eco-system you need access to the developer communities. Forge opens the door to this powerful and valuable community so you can hit the ground running from day one.
Creating buzz and energy around your platform by putting on a show. Host your own Virtual and Hybrid Developer conferences with our Developer Events and marketing solutions.
The investment made by technically and creatively gifted communities is made possible because of the rewards on offer for successful outcomes. We will help you design the best incentive and reward plans to excite developers.
What do 8/10 of the world's leading SaaS companies have in common?
Software giants Salesforce, Workday, Service Now, Shopify, Atlassian, Square, Zoom and Twilio all provide extensive options for enterprise customers and the developer community to extend, enhance and customise their product to meet the needs of specific and tailored business workflows.
If you aspire to build successful enterprise-ready SaaS products, you should plan your Extensibility strategy today.
We're currently accepting new early stage customers to work with us closely to enable their first steps into Plugin Marketplaces and Ecosystem development.
Talk to our Solutions team for advice specific to your business strategy and goals.
We will work with you to define a very real proof of concept that will immediately ignite your teams to jump into plugin development & community engagement.
Forge helped us to create and launch a full extensibility service in record time, with minimal upfront investment - this massively reduced the risk of a potentially huge project.
The immediate impact was that our team saw the opportunity to innovate faster and bring new ideas to life like never before.
Our Solutions team are here to guide you through your journey to extensibility and enabling the power of the Global Developer Community to scale innovation for your product.
Get in TouchFrom 2020 to 2022 this enterprise visual collaboration SaaS leader grew from 80 people to over 1000. Revenues grew from $9m ARR to over $120m and was valued at over $2bn.
But despite the investment, success with new customers and rapid team growth, the company struggled to keep pace of innovation.
Choosing Forge was a decision to address the needs of R&D teams that were stuck with technical debt and rapidly evolving processes.
In 2021 Forge was used an internal development platform to standardise and speed up access to platform services.
In 2022 the usage was expanded to a Product Discovery platform for rapid experimentation with new product concepts.
In order to accelerate R&D in the core product experience, 5 new extension points were created which enabled anyone to build, deploy and test new features via plugins.
This approach enabled small but mighty teams of designers and developers to tackle the unmet needs of customers that weren't otherwise being served by the core product roadmap.
Instead of long research and ideation phases, teams have radically changed how they build-test-learn at scale.
