SharePoint Move

Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API

October 8th, 2009 |

Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-28

Given the amount of data that sit in SharePoint worldwide, given how eager Google seems to be about enterprise apps these days, and given the size of Google’s appetite for data, we must say — it’s about time.

With the introduction of Google’s new Sites API — and some tools that explicitly pull stuff out of SharePoint and place it into Google Sites — the real heat between Redmond and Mountain View is finally starting to build. Finally, the missing link. Google is finally providing a way to share data between Google application, through their Data Liberation Front.

Google Sites, an application that allows users to create a website, is now supported by the Data Liberation Front. Previously data and content couldn’t leave or enter a Google Site. The new API supports creating, modifying, deleting and retrieving pages and content, up and downloading attachments, accessing revision history and displaying user activity.

Now Google has another avenue to challenge SharePoint. In fact, Google Enterprise partner LTech has already designed a data migration application called SharePoint Move for Google Apps. It migrates files, documents, lists, events and more, and generates a detailed report about the migration.

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