Omniture $25,000 Developer Challenge

With the recent release of the Omniture Developer Community website to customers, our product API’s, documentation, and community blogs and forums have moved one step closer to becoming completely open to the general public.Soon the Omniture platform and developer community will be accessible to anyone in the world that wishes to develop against our web service APIs. It’s an exciting time, and one can only wonder what kind of innovation we’ll see as a result. 

We recently wrapped up an internal development contest and received over 20 application submissions. Submissions for the internal contest provide an interesting early indicator of things to come. If you have a SiteCatalyst user login, you can view all the application submissions in the Omniture Developer Code Gallery. Here are a few examples of applications, integrations, and toolkits that were submitted for this contest:

Enhancing SiteCatalyst with Alexa Statistics
This application demonstrates how Omniture SiteCatalyst data can be enhnaced with Alexa Internet traffic statistics. It shows how to integrate the following Alexa statistics with SiteCatalyst referring domains statistics:

Rank
Site Links In
Reach
Reach per Million
Page Views
Page Views per Million
Page Views per User

Using Omniture's SOAP web services on the iPhone 
This application gives iPhone developers a headstart creating applications for SiteCatalyst with sample code that demonstrates:
- How to encode the WSSI authentication headers based off a web-services-enabled SiteCatalyst user. 
- Use of several administrative and report SOAP API calls 
- How to use SOAP web services on the iPhone given the lack of a supported SOAP library in Objective-C (the IPhone's development environment)
 
Firefox Extension: Form Analysis Javascript Plugin
This firefox extension displays form abandonment information collected via the Form Analysis Javascript Plugin overlayed on the form, much the same way ClickMap displays data for the links. This extension is intended to give analysts a better sense of where people are leaving their forms and which elements might cause people to leave from the site.
 

We’re pretty pleased with the results of the employee developer contest, so to keep the momentum going we’re launching a $25,000 developer contest to encourage our customers to write new applications and integrations on Omniture technology. The contest is open to all of our 5000+ customers and runs through February 6th 2009. Winners will be announced at Summit 2009 in Salt Lake City. The best application will win $10,000, a complimentary Summit 2009 attendee pass, and up to $1500 in travel reimbursement to travel to Salt Lake City and show off their application. We also have a best mobile application category for all you iphone lovers out there. Here is the official breakdown on the contest prize structure:

1st Prize: The Best Overall Application will receive $10,000 and a complimentary pass to Omniture Summit 2009
2nd Prize: The Runner-Up Application will receive $7,500 and a complimentary pass to Omniture Summit 2009
Best Mobile Application: The best mobile application will receive $5,000 and a complimentary pass to Omniture Summit 2009
Additional Prizes: $500 Apple Gift Cards will be awarded to the next five winning applications.

This contest is a great opportunity to showcase your development skills and turn your innovative ideas into reality. You could win a cash prize, complimentary attendance to Summit 2009, and gain broad recognition within the Omniture community! For more details, please visit the developer challenge homepage and check out the official FAQ and Rules sections.

Jeff Minich
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Platform
Omniture

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