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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.

We are pleased to announce the integration and launch of our convert and combine PDF services on Box.net. These services are available today on OpenBox to the 50,000+ companies on Box.net.

Convert to PDF: Free service allowing a Box.net user to quickly convert files to a PDF and then deliver through sharing or outside delivery services like Gmail. You never leave your Box.net account.

Available file types:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, JPG, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher, Bitmap, GIF, PNG, Plain Text, Rich Text, XML, MHT and WPD files.

Combine to PDF: Subscription service ($1 per user / month) allowing a Box.net user to select multiple files from Box to combine to a PDF. The interface allows you to pick individual pages to control and customize the final PDF. This is an excellent service for sales teams as it allows you to convert, organize, and combine files to PDF. Your customer will appreciate receiving one organized, professional, and visually consistent secure PDF rather than a series of files that are confusing, out of order, and time consuming for the recipient to review.

Example – Use Case:
Sales rep needs to share or email a Proposal. The proposal contains the following elements:

1) Cover letter (.doc)
2) Quote (.xls)
3) Product data sheet (.pdf)

Rather than sharing 3 files or emailing 3 separate attachments, use “Combine to PDF” to select the above three (3) files from Box and combine into a single PDF (Proposal.pdf) to share or email to your prospective client. You can control how the Proposal is presented and make sure it is reviewed in the proper order.

“Convert to PDF” and “Combine to PDF” represent the first two document services deployed on Box.net. We will be adding our DDP (Dynamic Document Package) service on Box.net in the near future. This will allow Box.net users to dynamically merge data into document packages and leverage all of the sharing and collaboration tools that exist within Box.

About Box.net, Inc.
Box.net (www.box.net) now serves over 50,000 companies from small businesses to Fortune 1000 that look to Box to simplify online content management, accelerate team productivity and connect employees with a familiar interface that anyone can use.

We are excited to announce our Amazon S3 document storage service for Salesforce, called LOOP Storage Services. LOOP Storage Services offers document storage for Salesforce. It provides a simple interface to store and manage any files, at any time, from within a documents tab or within an object in Salesforce.

Features:

A simple interface to store and manage any files or documents, at any time, from within Salesforce

Use single or multiple folder hierarchies

Add security (profile, role, user or user group) and keywords to your stored documents

NO file size limits . . . unless 5GB is not enough per document

How It Works:

Salesforce Tab: Custom Documents tab allowing you to store and manage all of your documents – simply upload and organize your files

Documents in Objects: Allows you to store documents within objects. You can also organize with document folders inside the objects. Deployed for all standard objects – contact Drawloop for custom objects

Amazon S3: All of your documents are managed within Salesforce but are stored with Amazon S3

How To Get Started:

1) Install LOOP Storage Services from AppExchange

2) Sign-up for an Amazon S3 account

Drawloop is an AWS Solution Provider. The AWS Solution Providers Program serves a growing community of Independent Software Vendors and Systems Integrators that offer a rich set of solutions and consulting services on AWS.

Contact us today with any questions.

Are you a Salesforce user? Are you worried about your documents using up Salesforce storage? Are you interested in a more robust document storage service within Salesforce?

If yes, please contact us today to join our LOOP Storage beta user group. LOOP Storage provides a simple interface to store and manage any files, at any time, from within a documents tab and/or from within an object in Salesforce.

Now is a great time to implement tangible solutions to reduce costs and increase profitability. Our simple user interface and out-of-the-box integration with Amazon S3 allows you to store, manage and retrieve all of your documents at market competitive pricing. There is no hardware or software required.

Next Steps:

1) Contact us to join the beta user group

2) Install LOOP Storage Services

3) Sign-up for Amazon Simple Storage Service

LOOP Document Services on Salesforce.com was recently recertified for AppExchange. Applications on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange that have earned a “certified” designation have met a higher set of standards. The AppExchange certification process includes extensive testing by Salesforce.com, as well as a security assessment of company policies, application and network infrastructure.

We continue to work with Salesforce.com customers in helping them automate works flow and other business processes around the creation and automation of what we call Dynamic Document Packages or DDPs.

Take a moment to learn why companies like KONE, ASCAP, LinkedIn Corporation and IntraLinks have leveraged our document automation service within their Salesforce platform.

A quick thank you to all of the Drawloop users from around the world. The continued growth of our DDP volume for new and existing customers reflects the need for businesses to automate document creation. We have enabled our customers to quickly respond, capture and close opportunities through the automation of sales contracts, proposal, quotes and virtually any document package required to sell or service a product.

What do you need to get started? Just your documents, that’s it!

Our on-demand document automation service allows you to DDP Enable the same Microsoft Office documents you have used for years. There are no templates or file conversions required. You do not need programming experience to create Dynamic Document Packages. Our document technology is built on a proven platform utilized by enterprise organizations for years.

We are pleased to announce that IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation) has chosen Drawloop as part of their Salesforce.com service. IMRO was looking to extend Salesforce functionality by linking document creation and fulfillment with the appropriate Salesforce objects. With LOOPlus, IMRO has automated the entire work flow for their license agreements.

Document Requirements:

1) Dynamically create license agreements from Salesforce
2) Send the license to a local web application
3) Send the executed license back into Salesforce

Solution:

IMRO deployed LOOPlus using our new HTTPS DDP delivery option. Their licenses are generated and sent from Salesforce directly into a local web application to facilitate tablet signing. Then, the user drags and drops the executed license agreement onto our desktop Applet to send back to the appropriate Salesforce record.

Contact us today to learn more about the capabilities of our new HTTPS DDP delivery option and our desktop Applet.

Drawloop is pleased to be working with the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). Our document automation services have allowed IFOAM to streamline member communications, annual membership contracts and other personalized official documents. This automation has improved staff efficiency and provided tangible cost-savings to the non-profit organization.

You can learn more about IFOAM by visiting the website.

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is a grassroots and democratic organization that currently unites 750 member organizations in 108 countries. IFOAM’s mission is leading, uniting and assisting the organic movement in its full diversity. Their goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture.

By Jason Fitzpatrick, 10:00 AM on Fri Jun 19 2009

“LOOP Apps is a one-stop shop for your PDF manipulation needs. From one site, you can convert, combine, and electronically sign documents.

We’ve covered some excellent web-based PDF tools before, including MergePDF, HTML to PDF Converter, and Free PDF to Word Converter, among others. LOOP Apps combines much of the functionality of those tools into one webapp.”

Read more

Try LOOP Apps today! No account or registration is required.

We encourage you to take a look at our subscription services where you can automate document creation for your entire team. Stop customizing and creating documents on your desktop. Free up your team and automate in our cloud!

About LOOP Apps

We are excited to announce a free new business service on LOOP Apps – DocuSign Express. DocuSign Express allows anyone to upload any combination of documents on LOOP and send through DocuSign for electronic signature.

Here’s how it works: (NO registration or account required)

1) Upload your files on LOOP Apps

2) Name your new combined file (e.g. Sales Contract)

3) Click Free ESIGN button

4) Complete the web form, set your recipient and submit for delivery

What happens after you submit?

Your recipient will receive an email to sign your documents. The recipient clicks the review link and then drops their signature on the document to sign. You also have the option to select for you to sign as well. That’s it. You will receive an email copy of the final executed document.

Click here to experience the power of LOOP and DocuSign Express!

LOOP with DocuSign Express (1:49) – expanded overview