AODocs: Reinventing Document Management with Google Cloud
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Life Sciences
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Testing & Certification
About The Customer
AODocs is a content services platform that is tightly integrated with Google Workspace. It works like a document management layer that sits on top of Google Drive, enabling businesses to organize their data and documents effectively. AODocs allows businesses to establish permissions and ownership controls, automate business workflows, apply retention policies, and comply with standards and regulations. The company is based in the United States and operates in the technology industry. It is the only content services platform that is tightly integrated with Google Workspace, and it aims to reinvent document management by integrating it directly into the Google Workspace environment.
The Challenge
AODocs, a content services platform, was faced with the challenge of integrating document management directly into the Google Workspace environment. The company aimed to provide a solution that would allow businesses to organize their data and documents effectively, establish permissions and ownership controls, automate business workflows, apply retention policies, and comply with standards and regulations, all while saving infrastructure and administrative costs. The challenge was to build a platform that could scale with any project size without impacting the performance of other users on the multi-tenant platform. Additionally, the platform needed to be secure against all possible security incidents, from network intrusions to hackers or denial of service attacks.
The Solution
AODocs chose to build its platform in a serverless Google Cloud environment, using App Engine as the backbone of its cloud stack. This allowed the company to run the primary set of services for its enterprise document management service. Information is stored on Datastore, and BigQuery is used to monitor user activity and gain insights with predictive analytics. The serverless stack on Google Cloud allowed AODocs to scale with customer needs and deliver uninterrupted service. The built-in security features of Google Cloud enabled AODocs to focus all their efforts on the solution itself, knowing that security threats are properly dealt with. Furthermore, App Engine facilitated the management of parallel environments, adapting release cycles to regulatory compliance needs.
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