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Our latest product offering was announced tonight at the Google Campfire One event at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Drawloop is honored to participate as a Google Apps Marketplace launch partner and excited to offer its document automation service to the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud.

DDPs for Google Apps is a cloud-based business application that allows users to customize and manage document creation in seconds using Dynamic Document Packages (DDP™). With DDPs, businesses have document control and visibility while reducing the cost associated with traditional document creation. DDPs for Google Apps is ideal for document packages such as sales proposals, quotes, contracts, service agreements, presentations, and any other documents critical to selling or supporting a business’ products and/or services. With DDPs for Google Apps, users can quickly create a DDP to email, download or share using the integration between Drawloop and Google Apps.

Extend Google Apps to Meet Your Business Needs

Users will be able to use and access DDPs from Google’s universal navigation. Rather than manually customizing your sales proposal (cutting, pasting, locating files and manually updating), simply complete a web form and get back your merged and customized sales proposal in seconds. With DDPs, the web form is automatically created.

Use Google Docs in combination with any other docs on your computer. Data can merge into Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel. A DDP can include one (1) or any combination of documents.

DDPs can merge data from a web form into the docs below:

Google Document
Google Spreadsheet
Google Presentation
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

A DDP can also include any of the following file types – PDFs, JPG, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher, Bitmap, GIF, PNG, Plain Text, Rich Text, XML, HTM/HTML, MHT and WPD files.

Pricing: $5 per user / month – A user is defined as any person who is authorized to access DDPs within your Google Apps domain.

Google Blog Post – More great apps for Google Apps

“We are very excited to have Drawloop in the Google Apps Marketplace. Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like Drawloop are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs. We are happy to offer Drawloop to the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud.”

Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise
Google, Inc.

Recently, we added the ability to send your documents from LOOP for e-signature through DocuSign Express. We have now extended the flexibility by exposing the service through an interface small enough to easily embed on any personal website or blog. Once you’ve embedded the widget, your users can upload documents, convert them to PDF, and send them to anyone for execution through DocuSign Express. It’s free, easy and you don’t need to register for anything!

Easy as 1-2-3:

1) Upload your file (you can upload several docs and combine them into a single PDF)

2) Click “ESIGN” to send all your files as a single PDF or click “free esign” on an individual file to only send that one through DocuSign Express

3) Fill out a brief web form and then click “submit”

. . . that’s it! Your recipient will be notified via email of the document awaiting their signature, and you’ll receive a confirmation email when they have completed the signing.

LOOP with DocuSign Express Embed Code:

<iframe src="http://api.drawloop.com/google/upload.aspx" style="border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; width: 350px; height: 330px;"></iframe>

We wanted to share a recent review from one of our LOOPlus customers, 1913, on Salesforce.com. We continue to expand our salesforce.com users while refining our document automation services. If you use salesforce.com, we encourage you to install our free trial and begin automating document creation for your entire team.

Excellent Tool – Easy to USe
02/15/08 by 1913

Great tool (LOOPlus) to automate document merge and publishing processes. Very easy to maintain. The support team is quick to answer any question.

Learn more about LOOP and LOOPlus on Salesforce.com

If the answer is yes, we have the solution. Our LOOP service will eliminate your frustration. As you already know, one major problem plagues many electronic fax services . . . how do you quickly and efficiently send or print multiple documents and specific pages through an electronic fax service?

With LOOP, you can upload all of your documents required for the fax, select specific pages, organize the final page order and then package everything to a single PDF . . . problem solved. No more headaches or wasted time printing and sending multiple files to your fax service.

Register today, it’s free!

Posted by SoftwareCEO

This month Intel opened a new website called CoolSW that uses “crowd sourcing” to highlight software. “The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software,” says the site. Members post information about an interesting software company, and site visitors vote on whether that company is “cool.”

If you sometimes need a PDF but don’t want to spend $299 for Adobe Acrobat, this free service could be the answer. LOOP is a SaaS offering that creates PDFs from MS Office files, graphics, or web pages. It can even combine numerous files into a single PDF.

One obvious use: Packing a mess of files into a single attachment that’s easier to send and receive by e-mail. LOOP doesn’t offer all the advanced features of the full Acrobat package, but how often do you need those anyway?

This free PDF-making software comes from Irvine, Calif.-based Drawloop Technologies, which claims 30,000 users. The company provides more powerful document packaging services for a fee. This is one example of the kind of disruptive technology that established software firms need to watch out for. Note to Adobe: Consider buying these guys before you-know-who discovers them. Copyright (c) 2007, Computing Technology Industry Association, Inc.