Using Google Data API to Automate Your Business Process
Is your company in the cloud? Too afraid to implement Windows Azure or Amazon Cloud Services? Well, If you Google Docs offers a basic cloud-based document management system. Using Google Spreadsheet, a business can automate certain tasks like document queue, reporting and approval. For example, using Google's Data API, a .NET application can be written to process files and move them from one location to another on the network, starting with a simple Google form submission.
Above, is a spreadsheet where each row represents a datagroup and it's status. The datagroup is managed from a Windows service that updates it's status in the Google doc everytime a process occurs.
It's very easy to integrate the Google Data API into a .NET application
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