Google Maps integrated within Microsoft SharePoint

Entertainment Franchising – Collaboration, Integration, Web

Map visualization custom component integrated with lists from SharePoint document management platform.

Initial needs

Our Customer needed to enhance their SharePoint 2010-based document management system with an ad hoc component that could connect to an address list and show its items’ position on a map.

Development

After an initial analysis remote session with our Customer and detailed studies on the technical-legal sides of Google Maps API usage, our team identified custom SharePoint web-part to be the best fitting solution to presented requirements and released the resulting component well within agreed deadline.

Business results

Our Customer provided desidered functionalities to all their franchisee as a support to customer and vendor management activities. As of today, about 1500 users work with our component daily.

Main employed technologies

HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, XML, C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint SDK.