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"By combining the flexibility of Google App Engine™, Secure Data Connector™, and Cast Iron for Google Apps, customers can move toward the cloud more easily."Rajen Sheth,
Google Apps Sr. Product Manager

Integrate Google Apps — in Just Days!

Cast Iron Systems created a fast and simple solution called Cast Iron for Google Apps that provides everything you need to securely integrate Google's™ cloud offerings with the rest of your enterprise applications. Cast Iron for Google Apps provides out-of-the-box integration with Google Secure Data Connector (SDC) and preconfigured connectivity to hundreds of applications to simplify your Google integration projects and complete them in days.

Connect Google Apps with Your Enterprise

Most Google applications — such as Google Sites, Google Docs including spreadsheets and enterprise gadgets, and custom-built applications on Google App Engine — may require you to exchange data with a variety of
on-premise systems including ERP, CRM, custom applications and databases. Just as Google Apps have simplified your user experience with its ease of use, Cast Iron for Google Apps has simplified application integration with its point-and-click configuration approach.

Google Apps connectivity

Benefits

Why Choose Cast Iron OmniConnect for Google Apps Integration?

Cast Iron OmniConnect for Google Apps enables IT Departments and developers to be nimble and responsive to the needs of the business. This Integration Solution has been specifically engineered for Google and contains everything needed to complete integration projects in days.

Fastest Time to Market:

Rapid Integration
  • No software to install or manage
  • Graphical configuration, not coding
  • Library of integration templates (TIPs) with pre-configured Google enterprise gadget data maps for common objects in enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, and more

Lowest Costs:

Lowest cost
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • Up to 80% lower maintenance costs vs. software-based alternatives
  • No need to maintain multiple components including hardware, web servers, databases, integration brokers, etc.

Simplest Monitoring and Management:

Simplest monitoring and management
  • 100% remote management and administration
  • Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
  • Monitor from anywhere, anytime

Most Rapid, Efficient Development:

Most rapid, efficient development
  • Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed via an on-premise Integration Appliance or the integration-as-a-service Cast Iron Cloud2
  • 100% standards-based: no reliance on niche middleware skills
  • Out-of-the-box integration with Google SDC for secure data transfer
  • Pre-built connectors for major ERP applications, all major databases, flat-files, Web Services, messaging systems, and more

Overview

Problems Solved

What Problems Does Cast Iron OmniConnect Solve?

Synchronize data in real time between Google Apps and gadgets with other systems using Google Secure Data Connector:

  • 360° view of customer and product across ERP, CRM & call center applications
  • Pricing and product catalog visibility from ERP & merchandising systems
  • Billings, bookings and backlog visibility from ERP and CRM applications
  • POs, shipping notices and payments visibility with suppliers
  • Inventory visibility from ERP, manufacturing and shipping applications
  • Industry specific Google Apps and gadget integrations:
    • A fast growing emergency medicine provider exposes emergency room data to medical providers
    • A large university synchronizes student course data between PeopleSoft & Google's calendar application
    • A recruiting application built on App Engine integrates with the ERP application

Connect Google Apps with the following systems:

  • ERP including SAP, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, NetSuite, Lawson, Great Plains, PeopleSoft, BAAN, QAD, etc.
  • CRM including Siebel, Oracle CRM On Demand, salesforce.com, Clarify, Remedy, etc.
  • Customer support systems
  • All major databases including Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, mySql, Informix, Sybase, etc.
  • Middleware, including Oracle Fusion, and all major EAI platforms
  • Flat-files using FTP, HTTP(S), E-mail
  • SaaS applications including Eloqua, Right90, Big Machines, Xactly, and White Springs
  • XML and Web Services
  • Custom applications
  • And many more…

Benefits

How It Works

Accelerate Your Google Apps Integration Projects

Cast Iron for Google Apps is a self-contained solution that provides everything needed to migrate data and integrate Google’s cloud offerings with other applications and endpoints. The Cast Iron Integration Solution™ provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with Google:

Cast Iron Capabilities

Migration and Data Quality:

Migration Steps

  • Data Profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations
  • Intelligent Data Cleansing:
    • Duplicate Removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different sources and remove duplicate values
    • Fuzzy Lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them
  • Data Enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data

Integration and Extraction

Integration Steps

  • Connectivity: Configurable connectivity to hundreds of applications and endpoints
  • Transformation: Drag-and-drop UI for data transformations
  • Workflow: Visual interface for designing workflow rules
  • Management: Easy manageability through single web-based console

TIPs and PIPs

With thousands of successful customer integrations, Cast Iron leverages a wealth of integration experience to provide a comprehensive set of template integration processes (TIPs). These TIPs are offered for the most common integration scenarios between a number of enterprise applications like Oracle, salesforce.com, SAP, etc. and eliminate the need to build your integrations from scratch. You can simply log in via your browser, select the template that best suits your requirements and enjoy proven, supported and certified processes. The TIPs can also be further customized to meet your specific needs using a simple configuration wizard.

TIPs-PIPs browser screen shot

Problems Solved

Getting Started

Getting Started

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OmniConnect™ Products

  • Cast Iron Cloud2™

    The Cast Iron Cloud2 for Google Apps is our integration-as-a-service solution. Using a "develop once, deploy anywhere" approach, the Cast Iron Cloud2 is ideally suited for Google's enterprise customers with a majority of their applications based in the cloud and want no infrastructure on premise.

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    Cast Iron Cloud™
  • Cast Iron Integration Appliances

    The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for Google Apps is our on-premise integration solution. Useful for Google's enterprise customers, with a majority of their applications based on premise, that seek a standards-based platform. Also available as a virtual appliance that can be installed on a company's own hardware.

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    Cast Iron Integration Appliance™