Google Cloud is using their latest Business Application Platform to cultivate a line of citizen and business developers in enterprises.
Recently Google Cloud has begun setting themselves apart from their competitors by acknowledging and explaining how common business problems can be easily solved by combining a variety of different Google services.
Usually, business-like Google would sell their applications and services separately, however, they have introduced their newest service, Business Application Platform, which focuses on solutions for businesses.
The application combines and build’s on AppSheet’s no-code application development platform with Apigee’s API management capabilities.
Their newest service is a brilliant application that merges no-code application management, analytics, automation and development with API management.
AppSheet was obtained by Google earlier this year.
Google Cloud has also announced that they are considering adding multi-cloud features for architecture, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Both AppSheet and Apigee’s services have both received multiple updates this month as part of Google’s process. They have also released the new API Gateway beta, which, for instance, can build on top of the Envoy open-source project.
This fully managed service aims to provide easier API security and management for developers across a variety of Google’s Cloud functions and services and serverless contributions. These services include Cloud and Cloud Functions, for example.
Google’s new service, API Gateway, has been in the alpha testing phase for some time now, and it offers a range of the standard features one would expect from such a feature; authentication, rate limiting and key validation for instance.
AppSheet is one of Google’s low-cost features that aim to make the process of transferring third-party applications data to Apigee as a way for the service to source data significantly easier.
This new service is incredibly flexible and adds flexibility on the already supported standard sources, such as G Suite, MySQL and Salesforce.
However, it must be acknowledged that it becomes more complex with more data. To help with this issue, AppSheet is launching brand new tools that, due to the launch of AppSheet Automation, will improve the services automating processes.
This application is Google’s promise to their audience, and developers, that they do not have to write their own code. Google has stated that AppSheet Automation provides a visual interface that “provides contextual suggestions based on natural language inputs.”
In their announcement earlier this month, Google states “We are confident the new category of business application platforms will help empower both technical and line of business developers with the core ability to create and extend applications, build and automate workflows, and connect and modernize applications.”
And it can be agreed that Google’s newest services and features indeed appear like a smart way for developers to combine Apigee’s power with AppSheet’s no-code environment.
The announcement of Google Cloud’s Business Application Platform came at their Google Cloud NextOnAir virtual conference, where Amit Zavery, Google Cloud’s head of platform, stated: “our focus is to add no code with a lot of enterprise capabilities.”
Additionally, Zavery stated that technical and line of business developers will be enabled by API management services and connections.
Further, Zavery has added that Google intends to speed up digital transformation projects by significantly improving its API platforms.
Google intends to use their new API services to modernise and extend data and services.
On their website for the new application, Google Cloud describes the way the Business Application Platform equips develops to innovate: “Leverage APIs as building blocks to quickly build and deliver connected experiences. Migrate and modernize apps as they move to the cloud or between clouds and activate new business channels and partnerships to monetize your proprietary applications and data.”
They further describe the way the Business Application Platform can be used: to provide solutions to developers major issues (such as health and safety concerns, climate change or human rights); for developers to contend with their competitors; to significantly improve their employee’s productivity and engagement in the workplace; to help a developer become an industry leader, and to substantially improve operational efficiency.
