Drawloop Blog

Our team has been working hard since Drawloop launched on the new Google Apps Marketplace at Tuesday’s Campfire One event. We have already seen the global reach with Google Apps as one of our first customers is based in Italy.

Today, we officially released our support site on Google Sites to better enable Google Apps customers to automate the creation of their documents. Learn how you can stop manually customizing your documents . . . take the next step and improve productivity within Google Apps!

How a DDP Admin Creates a Dynamic Document Package

Step 1: Prepare Your Docs
Step 2: Build a DDP
Step 3: Run a DDP

Now you are ready to authorize DDPs for Google Apps users (merge, customize and create documents from a web form).

We encourage you to visit our support site to learn more. We’ve got some exciting enhancements coming up and are looking forward to growing with the Google Apps Marketplace!

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: 30-day free trial – $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.

Salesforce users rely on Drawloop to help them automate the creation of proposals, sales quotes, presentations and many other document packages critical to selling or servicing their products. Our on-demand services will allow you to deliver a one-click process for the creation of Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs).

We’re proud to have launched the most recent version of our document merge, automation and packaging service within Salesforce. We’re launching the latest version (v4.5) of LOOP Document Services today. The following is a summary of the new features available with LOOP Document Services:

Dynamic Ordering of Attachments
A powerful new feature is your ability to add and order any static or dynamic (doc contains merge fields) documents that have been uploaded to Notes & Attachments on an Object.

Dynamic ordering of attachments allows “ad hoc” or “custom” docs to be added to a DDP at run time.

Parameter Based Sections
All DDP Admins will love this new feature — parameter based DDP sections. In addition to making sections (pages) of a DDP optional to the user at run time, you can now quickly and easily have sections (pages) included or excluded based on field values.

Example: You want to include the Quote section of the DDP only when Account Level field value = Enterprise

Product Addendums
If you use Products and Product Line Items, you will appreciate the ability to dynamically add Product Addendums to DDPs. This new feature simplifies administration of DDPs while you are utilizing product line items in Word or Excel files.

Example: Sales rep has just added Product A, F and M to his new Opportunity. He clicks a button on the Opportunity to run his customized Sales Proposal. The DDP delivers to him a merged and customized Sales Proposal as a single PDF that also includes the addendums for the products he selected (A, F and M).

Mass DDPs
This new feature is extremely valuable a business use case where you need to send a DDP to hundreds of customers at the same time. DDPs can now be emailed, attached, downloaded, printed, and e-signed en masse with Mass DDPs.

Example: Tim needs to email a DDP to hundreds of Salesforce Contacts in a list view. He selects the contacts to be emailed, clicks Mass LOOPlus, selects the DDP he wants to send, and clicks Run. When the emails have finished being sent, Tim receives the Mass DDP results via email.

DDPs with DocuSign Embed Signing
This new feature was added to take advantage of business use cases where DDPs are created and delivered directly to DocuSign’s embedded signing process within a Force.com application or a Customer Portal.

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.

We wanted to share a recent review and use case from one of our LOOPlus customers, Dawson Cole Fine Art, 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 Option for Document Creation with Salesforce.com 04/22/09 by Dawson Cole Fine Art
This is a great app if you need to create documents! Great functionality and great support team. Huge time buster!

Customer Success

Need:
Dawson Cole Fine Art needed to be able to email or print a custom data sheet on a particular sculpture or painting. This data sheet includes images, pricing and details about a particular piece. The manual steps involved in creating this data sheet made it difficult to quickly respond to existing and new customers.

Solution: LOOPlus
With the click of a button, a customized letter package (cover letter, data sheet and other optional elements) is created for the new prospective or existing customer. The automated process allows Dawson Cole Fine Art to quickly respond to the specific needs of its customers.

Learn more about our LOOP Document Services on Salesforce.com

We are pleased to see our user base continue to grow both within and outside of the United States. As we work with more international companies, we see two fundamental realities that exist every business:

The business uses Microsoft Office files to create and customize documents (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

The business is looking for a simple solution to help them automate critical document packages (proposals, sales quotes and contracts) to reduce expenses, eliminate inefficiencies, and increase revenues

Learn today how you can start automating document creation anywhere on the web!

We just rolled out some enhanced navigation on LOOP Apps. You now have the ability to seamlessly work between LOOP PDF, LOOP Publish and LOOP DDP. In addition to the new navigation, we also exposed a Dashboard where you can see daily statistics on your DDPs and published files.





Dashboards: The new Dashboard tracks all of your DDP stats. You can see number of runs (total, the number today, yesterday, last seven days and last month), traffic source (direct or referral) and user type (visitor or registered).

Let us know what you think of the new navigation. Over 70,000 users on LOOP Apps and growing each day! Thanks to you who make up the Drawloop community!

We have recently added our LOOP to PDF and LOOP Exchange (document automation service) to the Etelos Marketplace™. Etelos (OTCBB: ETLO) provides on-demand browser-based applications. The Etelos Marketplace™ gives businesses a wide selection of fully customizable, on-demand business applications to license and deploy to the hosting environment of their choice. Drawloop is one of six new partners who have gone live with applications on the Etelos Marketplace™. The applications range from Email management to business intelligence to CRM.

“As more and more businesses come to the Etelos Marketplace™ looking for Web applications, having partners such as Drawloop is essential to giving them the quality solutions they want,” Etelos President & CEO Jeff Garon said. “We are excited to have these apps in the Marketplace and we are confident that this momentum will continue as we expand the Marketplace to bring in even more application solutions for our customers.”

We are pleased to be working with Etelos and look forward to increasing our customer and user base through the Etelos Marketplace™. Click here for the press release.

Press Release – Drawloop Technologies today announced the successful launch of LOOP DDP with Silverlight, its first offering in support of Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology.

LOOP DDP with Silverlight provides an on-demand service helping businesses, organizations and individuals automate document creation. You can run all of your documents with the click of a mouse directly on your website using Microsoft Silverlight. LOOP DDP offers a free Standard edition as well as Premier and Enterprise subscription editions.

“Our new embed capabilities with Silverlight allow our customers to automate document creation anywhere on the Web,” said Vincent Cabral, Vice President, Product Development of Drawloop Technologies. “We are excited to expand how our customers can deliver document automation to their sales team, and in some cases, directly to their customers.”