Your app, the newest addition to the Google Apps suite.Google Apps provides powerful communication and collaboration tools like Gmail, calendar, documents, and contacts, right from the browser. Over 25 million people from 2 million businesses and universities use Google Apps, and more than 3,000 organizations sign up for Apps each day.
But Google Apps is more than a suite of cloud apps -- it's an application platform with rich APIs and UI extension points that enable your app to integrate with our apps, so together we can address customer problems like:- Multiple logins and lost passwords
- Confusing navigation between apps
- Information silos and duplicate data
- Multiple administrative UIs
Once integrated, we can help you reach new customers using the Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront that allows our 2 million Google Apps customers to easily discover, deploy and manage your cloud app. Here's a screencast that shows how easy it is for Google Apps admins to deploy an installable app to their users from the Marketplace:
Easy to get startedIt's easy to get started with the Marketplace, and there are no platform dependencies. The basic steps are:- Understand the Marketplace's 20% revenue share fees and payment policy, which includes a requirement to bill using Google Checkout later in 2010.
- Add OpenID-based Single Sign-On to your app, so Google Apps users can log in using their Google Apps credentials, and any other integrations your users will find useful.
- Become a vendor in the Marketplace and fill in your listing form
- Publish your listing so it can be approved by Google and made visible to the world
Google Apps Marketplace Overview
But wait, tell me again why it's good to integrate with Google Apps?Our 25 million users are happier and more productive when their apps work well together. And since Google Apps includes daily-use apps like mail, contacts, calendar, and documents, there are a lot of opportunities for innovative integrations to make our apps work well together. Whether you integrate our apps into your apps, your apps into ours, or both, here are some of the benefits of integrating with Google Apps: - Solve common user problems: Google Apps APIs for authentication, contacts, calendars, documents, sites, and mail enable integrated features like:
- easy single sign, so your app is always 1-click away when users are in Gmail
- contact integrations, so users can pick and autocomplete from their existing contacts
- shared documents, so users don't having to upload/download and manage multiple versions
- shared calendars, so users see a unified view of important dates and events across apps.
- Reach early adopters via our Marketplace: The Google Apps Marketplace is integrated into Google Apps itself, making it easier for millions of businesses who have already embraced the cloud to discover and buy your cloud app.
- More time for your core features: Use our open APIs to take advantage of our apps and features, so you don't have to re-invent a wheel you don't want to.
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