Google Secure Data Connector

April 13, 2009

My Overflight service spit out a link to Google’s Secure Data Connector last week. I don’t do news; I do a weird mix of marketing, commentary and explication. You can read about the SDC on TMCNet.com here. The story “Google Secure Data Tool ties Apps to Company Data” is a good summary of what the GOOG is doing to encroach upon the enterprise market’s billions in spending, slowly, and incrementally. The SDC, said TMCNet.com:

allows data from behind-the-firewall sources and applications to be securely accessed via Google Gadgets, Google spreadsheets or its App Engine development platform. Google’s announcement gained initial backing from none other than Oracle, which said that its Siebel CRM (customer relationship management) software will support the SDC. Oracle also announced Oracle Gadget Wizard for Google Apps, with which users can create gadgets for Google Sites.

Google has some clever systems and methods for “hooking” the enterprise infrastructure to the Googleplex. I won’t repeat the information on these inventions here. You can find the details in my Google Version 2.0, published in 2007. Yep, the GOOG has been on this track for couple of years. Competitors should not be surprised nor should one ignore the importance of Oracle’s jumping on this bandwagon.

More coming too.

Stephen Arnold, April 13, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, Google, News, Technology

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