Documents Hub From Cloud Elements

Cloud integration platform as a service company, Cloud Elements LLC, announced the availability of their Documents Hub, the first ‘one-to-many’ integration platform service.

The hub is a developer tool providing a single API to integrate Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive, and SharePoint, all through a set of REST API calls. With the ‘one-to-many’ approach to integrations, developers can connect to an entire category of services (e.g., documents, CRM, service, marketing, accounting) in a fraction of the time and cost of alternative integration approaches.

It provides a console to provision, integrate, monitor and maintain these services. Their platform delivers interaction between all of the leading document storage providers. With it, software developers have a way to add these documents and file storage services into their SaaS applications. Additional document and file services will be added, including support early next year for Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files.

SaaS application developers face a challenge keeping up with the universe of cloud services that their applications need to co-exist with. Their clients have documents and files stored in any number of cloud storage services, each accessed with a unique set of user credentials. To date, developers of these SaaS applications have had to write a custom, one-off integration to each document service, wasting hundreds of hours of development time to integrate them all. This tools allows developers to write to one API and the hub connects their application to a list of cloud services including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive, and SharePoint. It allows developers to provision and integrate services within their specific environments. The dashboard offers monitoring and tagging for granular account tracking and interoperability between services (e.g., attach, store, and send documents and files).

“Cloud Elements’ mission is to make it easier for developers to integrate, monitor and maintain the cloud services their applications depend on,” said Mark Geene, CEO, Cloud Elements. “By partnering with cloud Elements, for the first time developers don’t have to choose which service to integrate, but instead they can have all of the leading services integrated into their app for less time than it takes to integrate just one service. Get Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive, SharePoint and more for a fraction of the time and a fraction of the code.“

Slidefish, a Sydney, Australia-based documents sharing, feedback and analytics tool, has integrated the tool.

Slidefish CEO Neil Smith says: “The Cloud Elements Documents ‘Elements’ take a huge amount of pain away from us. Not having to worry about ongoing API changes from the various cloud document storage providers means that we can integrate with their services much faster, on a larger scale and more reliably than we could on our own.“

Marc Haverland, CTO of TrackVia, an application building platform for business users, says: “Using Cloud Elements’ ‘one-to-many’ approach is allowing us to integrate to all of the leading cloud document services in less time than it would have taken us to integrate to just one service.“

The hub is free for developers to integrate into their applications and use in support of up to five customers. Developers can access the service using their GitHub account.

Subscription plans begin at $99 per month.