On the occasion of its TechEd 2014 conference, Microsoft introduced a set of APIs dedicated to Office 365. They must be able to develop additional features for the suite cloud of Redmond.Office 365 opens to developers. At its TechEd Europe conference being held this week in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a set of programming interfaces (API) set associated with its Office suite in the cloud. The aim is to give others the opportunity to enhance the features of Office 365. These APIs should enable other solutions to access the resources of the office suite. The latter is now used by 70% of Fortune 500 companies, says Microsoft.
"Microsoft is clearly trying to maintain its solution on the front of the stage, particularly in the area of mobility, says Al Hilwa, research director for IDC. The arrival of the API is a good strategy to ensure the scalability of Office 365 services in the cloud. "As explained by Microsoft, the API can be used in many different ways. For example, to allow an application to booking travel to synchronize directly with the Outlook calendar.
A call for contribution
American IFTT cloud broker should be one of the first to use these APIs. The company that has made a specialty of connecting different cloud services into a single workflow has announced that the Office Support 365 arrive in the coming weeks. In addition, Microsoft also announced that additional API would be launched to support updates and Yammer. To help developers to take control of the programming tool, the Redmond company has already released a SDK (Software Developments kit) for iOS and Android. In addition, video tutorials are available on the internet.
In addition to highlighting the API, Microsoft has made room in the launcher Office 365 applications to display software other than its own. This will allow other publishers to display their own applications alongside Microsoft tools such as Yammer, Outlook and One Drive. In addition, the Redmond company began launching partnerships with other companies whose Specialist DocuSign authentication services.
Updates to Azure and Active Directory
At TechEd, Microsoft has not merely ads around its online office suite. In the case of Azure, the Azure Batch editor presented that allows users to better plan the use of resources according to the arrival or departure of employees. Another new feature called Azure Automation is dedicated to the automation of many tasks that hitherto had to be done manually. Microsoft also announced an anti-malware for virtual machines and updating Active Directory Azure to allow external users access to the SI. Finally, Intune, the management solution dedicated to small businesses terminals, was also updated to facilitate the deployment of Office 365.
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