Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 26, 2011
Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) had a need to overcome the integration gap between their cloud-based case management system and the core set of Google Apps products they rely upon to get their work done. LSNC was awarded funding from the LSC Technology Initiative Grants Program to develop a solution that would solve some common integration issues facing many legal service groups.

The LSNC Google API Project is a national demonstration project, released under the GNU General Public License is being developed in partnership with MC+A. The project’s goal is to demonstrate how open source Google APIs can be used for practical integration of the Google Apps platform with open source case management systems used by legal service programs. Once development is complete the project will be maintained by LSNC.

As part of an iterative approach MC+A developed a release schedule that address LSNC issues by priority. The first priority for the project was integration of the case management system with Google Apps Calendar

“Integration of Google Calendar with our CMS illustrates what we need to accomplish,” says Brian Lawlor, Regional Counsel at LSNC. “Instead of the two platforms having separate, essentially duplicate calendaring systems, we are replacing the calendaring system native to the CMS with the more flexible, powerful Google Calendar functions. Doing so, our users can create and edit one set, not two, of case-related calendar events, and can do so from either the Google Calendar or the CMS. One calendaring system to rule them all!”

MC+A will be developing three addition integration components (Gmail, Google Docs and Google Groups) for the API project with additional iterations scheduled for release before the end of Q2.
“This is a great first step toward integrating these two systems,” Michael Cizmar, MC+A’s Managing Partner stated when asked about the project. “It really shows just a small part of what can be done using the Google Apps API to integrate into an existing system. We are looking forward to the community’s involvement in the coming months.”
The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License and is maintained at:
http://code.google.com/p/lsnc-google-api/

About MC+A
MC+A is dedicated to solving business challenges by enabling organizations to derive maximum value from their business intelligence assets. They provide solutions focused on managing business intelligence and help their clients build, find and share those assets securely. MC+A was the first Google Enterprise Partner and is also on the Board of Advisors to Open Pipeline.

http://www.mcplusa.com

About Legal Services of Northern California
LSNC, a ten-office legal aid program serving low-income clients in 23 counties in the upper third of California, has long been recognized as one of the finest and most effective legal services programs in the country.

http://www.lsnc.net/

We will be on site discussing Google Apps and its benefits to your business.

For more information, including links to directions and registration check out our event page.

• A new margin ruler
• Better numbering and bullets
• Better placement of images
• “Higher Fidelity” document import
• Faster JavaScript process
• Faster Collaboration

Check it out below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM

Remember that when you delete an account, you also delete all of the documents that that user was an owner of.  If you are forced to terminate someone, simply change their password until you have time to reassign ownership of their documents.

https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112069

You can register for the Webinar here.

Webinar Info:
Date and time:
Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:00 pm
Central Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, Chicago)
Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:00 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)

Duration: 1 hour

OffiSync is suppose to:

• Allow you to open a Google Doc directly in Microsoft Word
• Add collaborators within Word
• Constantly save your updates to Google Docs.

It’s currently in beta.  We’ll update as we find more about this product.

Download a copy of OffiSync here.

Here is a video describing the new feature:

“This is just another important step towards assisting organizations manage their information assets, what we call business intelligence,” said Michael Cizmar, MC+A President and Managing Partner. “The wide variety of apps that Google Apps provides will allow our organization to continue to assist our clients collaborate on a greater scale. The fundamental need for companies to become part of ‘the cloud’ is becoming recognized.”

In joining the Google Apps Reseller Program, MC+A looks to continue working with clients to leverage their expertise into solutions that will allow their end-users to engage co-workers and digital assets. “Workers can now use communication apps to easily connect with one another,” Michael Cizmar continues, “this provides a greater quality output and reduces wasted time.”

Google Apps brings powerful and easy-to-use communication and collaboration tools to the enterprise. With Google Apps, users are able to use GmailTM webmail service, Google TalkTM messaging, Google CalendarTM, Google DocsTM program, Google SitesTM web application and Google VideoTM within their work domain. Because the apps are hosted by Google™, there is no hardware to install or software to download and maintain.

MC+A customers and prospects can today begin to utilize Google Apps by completing the online form and purchasing here.

For more information on MC+A Collaboration Solutions please visit:
www.mcplusa.com/solutions/collaboration

About MC+A:
MC+A is dedicated to solving business challenges by enabling organizations to derive maximum value from their business intelligence. They provide solutions focused on managing business intelligence. They focus on helping our clients build, find and share those assets securely. Additionally, MC+A provides managed services implementing enterprise 2.0 initiatives.

Contact: John Cizmar
Ph: 312.275.5737 x366
media@mcplusa.com

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