Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks.

This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings.

Here’s the key difference in what we had before and what we have now:

• User-level APIs – these are good if you are developing a add-ons/utilities for individual users – like gadgets or Outlook plug-ins.
• Admin-level settings APIs from September drop – awesome for creating custom administrative interfaces.
• Admin interfaces with data access added last week – can enable you to create a lot of really valuable tools: migration, content-management, policies – you name it.

A strong move meaning that the enterprise folks at Google are really starting to think about enabling the ISV ecosystem around their technology. After all, this is what made Microsoft so successful.

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