Learn how participants from our Campfire One on March 24th are incorporating Google Apps developer tools into their products and services. Visit the Google Solutions Marketplace to find additional applications and services from these and other Google Apps solutions providers.
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The IBM High Performance On-demand Software (HiPODS) team delivers first-of-a-kind, end-to-end integrated solutions that span IBM software and hardware to deliver a unified solution for clients.
During Campfire One, the IBM HiPODS team showed how Java standards make it easy to move an app from one environment to another with just a few small code changes - in this case moving an application running on Google App Engine (using Google's non-relational datastore) to IBM WebSphere (talking to relational IBM DB2).
Oracle is the world's largest business software company. They believe strongly in a "hybrid" computing model that enables their customers to work seamlessly across on-premise computing environments and the cloud. Oracle is excited that the Google Secure Data Connector (SDC) provides an open, standards-based means of connecting cloud-based apps to on-premise systems.
At Campfire One, Oracle demonstrated Oracle CRM Gadgets for Google Apps, with support for SDC. These gadgets let users of Oracle Siebel CRM interact with commonly used sales data like leads and top accounts within a Google Site. Oracle also showed how support for SDC in Google Spreadsheets lets users collaborate in real-time on critical sales information like deal prices.
Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises do more with cloud computing. Appirio is excited to deliver enterprise applications and custom development services for Google App Engine.
At this Campfire, Appirio showed an app that enables businesses to better manage their recruiting process and encourage word of mouth referrals - all in the cloud. The app is a lightweight applicant tracking system for hiring mangers to create & publish job openings and manage applicants. It publishes openings not only to the company website, but also to Facebook, by connecting to Appirio's Referral Management Solution.
Appirio built the application using Java for Google App Engine (for business logic and data) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) (for a rich & responsive user interface). They were able to build, test, and deploy entirely in Java without writing a single line of HTML or Javascript.
Cast Iron Systems is a leading SaaS / cloud integration company with thousands of customer integrations connecting cloud applications to the rest of the enterprise. Cast Iron's point-and-click configuration approach and flexible deployment options let companies reduce their integration costs by as much as 80%.
Cast Iron for Google Apps is a ready-to-go solution that provides everything needed to connect hundreds of on-premise and SaaS applications to Google Apps in just days. It includes integrated support for the Google Secure Data Connector, and a library of integration templates to simplify accessing common enterprise data with gadgets and Google App Engine. The templates provide pre-configured XML data maps for common business objects like customer records and orders from systems such as Salesforce.com, SAP, and Oracle.
Customers like the Schumacher Group (see video) are using Cast Iron for Google Apps to provide real-time visibility into their on-premise data in Google Apps.
Panorama Software gives organizations the ability to rapidly identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve performance through business intelligence and analytics.
Panorama Analytics for Google Apps lets users visualize and analyze their data in gadgets embedded in Google Docs, Google Sites, and other applications.
Panorama has added support for the Google Secure Data Connector (SDC) to their solution. Previously, Panorama's gadgets supported connecting to data in Google Docs spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, and CSV files. Now, these gadgets can also connect to any behind-the-firewall data source through SDC, allowing businesses to display and analyze all their data right in the browser.
Ping Identity is a leading federated identity management vendor, delivering secure Internet single sign-on (SSO) software and services to more than 300 enterprise customers, government agencies and service providers worldwide.
PingFederate, their flagship product, allows inbound and outbound SSO between a user working in a browser in one location and an application running in another. PingFederate maps whatever security protocol is used locally to whatever the endpoint application uses, typically SAML for requests over the internet. No modification to existing applications or identity infrastructure is necessary.
Ping Identity has built an alpha version of PingFederate to support requests made through the Google Secure Data Connector (SDC). PingFederate translates requests into and out of the OAuth authentication standard used by SDC, which allows two-way communication between Google Apps and any on-premise application - even if it does not support OAuth natively.
PivotLink provides SaaS reporting, dashboard, and analytics solutions that empower teams to collaborate inside and outside of the enterprise, and that can be deployed in weeks at a fraction of the cost of traditional business intelligence systems.
PivotLink's customers wanted access to PivotLink data and tools in Google Apps alongside other relevant information like news, company announcements, and customer records. To meet this need, PivotLink used the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build a gadget that lets users embed the rich visualization and analytics functionality in other applications like Google Sites.
PivotLink wanted their users to have the same quality of experience with the gadget that they got from the full web application in any web browser. Using GWT, Pivotlink was able to ensure cross-browser compatibility and create a fast and responsive user interface in substantially less time than would have been possible with JavaScript.
ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company's approach, which includes Agile and Lean best practices, helps clients maximize their IT investment performance and reduces deployment time and risk. ThoughtWorks' technology leaders help their clients realize successful cloud-based product design, from the simplest project tool to large scale, internet-based enterprise applications.
As a Google Enterprise Partner, ThoughtWorks helps its clients evaluate, design and deliver custom applications with Google technologies including Google App Engine.
Cloud Sherpas is a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. They help guide customers through their evaluation of cloud solutions and assist with the heavy lifting of migrating from legacy infrastructure including architecture decisions, change management, and post-deployment support. As a Google Apps Authorized Reseller, Cloud Sherpas helps businesses move to Google Apps from on-premise messaging systems.
Cloud Sherpas has also launched a Google App Engine development practice dedicated to extending the utility of Google Apps in enterprise deployments. Their development team will leverage App Engine's Java support to build deeply integrated and scalable applications for Google Apps customers.
Sword Group delivers high value business applications to the worlds largest companies. Sword operates in 37 countries, and as a Google Enterprise Partner, has been helping organizations across the globe harness the benefits of Google's enterprise products since 2006.
Sword Connect is Sword's set of Google Enterprise Search and Google Apps solutions. Sword Connect for Google Apps enables business users to access and collaborate on information stored in content management systems (CMS) like EMC Documentum and IBM Filenet within Google Apps. Sword has created a library of gadgets that use the Google Secure Data Connector to let users retrieve and update the contents of these repositories. Sword's solution gives businesses easy web access to their documents without requiring configuration changes to the ECM environment.
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