Congrat, Appsheet team. All the efforts are now paid off, I m so excited.
Hope tons of new features will be kept added on further and make Appsheet platform as more innovative tool. Also I am super happy to be as a member of community here.
Congratulation once again.
Koichi
Congratulations! and good luck
Hi @Charlie_Wells the only intention is to have a positive impact — improve the platform.
Congratulations Team! Clearly recognition of your uncompromising commitment of creating consistent client value and improvement!!
Thanks and, once again, congratulations @praveen!
If you don’t mind could you write a bit about what your role is projected to be in the coming years? In other words, will you continue to lead and play a role similar to the one you have played thus far in making major policy decisions about the AppSheet platform? Since you’ve written that the AppSheet team will remain the same, I assume you will continue to be intimately involved. Still, I wonder if being “acquired” might not mean a significant change in governance.
Also, as a podcast fan, I’m really looking forward to hearing you be interviewed on How I Built This:
Please let us know when your turn to be on that show comes around.
Congratulations Praveen & the entire team! Well-deserved success for the hardest working group of people I know! All the best!
Congrats Praveen and the hole Appsheet team!!!
Well done. Look forward to better value for customers!
Congrats to the whole team! From the outside looking in, it seems like a great strategic move for moving the vision of AppSheet forward.
I’m really excited for what this could mean in terms of deeper integration with Google Software distribution methods: Becoming a core Gsuite Service, AppSheet Marketplace, etc. Here’s a video of some of my rough predictions for those who like to speculate.
You raise an interesting point about Go To Market esp. about inclusion of AppSheet in Gsuite - for appsheet partners and users who already have Gsuite, it would definitely be a welcome addition. However, this will involve major changes to the billing/invoicing/payment processing system that AppSheet already has in place and so I wouldn’t expect to see this for a couple of years. I believe that the strategy will be to market AppSheet as a separate service until such time as it gets more tightly integrated into other Google Cloud products such as GCalendar, Gmail, Gdrive, Gsheets, Gdocs etc. so that it can be bundled into Gsuite.
I think your timeline is a good estimation if a bundled Gsuite offering became part of the roadmap. I think it’s the ideal way to roll out the tool to a Gsuite company. I see the end goal for Google being to use AppSheet as an additional incentive for companies to further invest in Gsuite and Cloud services across their business. Product & Service modifications would probably steer that direction more and more as time goes on.
Listening to @Stefan_Quartemont’s discussion of the implications of thia acquisition reminded me of a problem I had in the past:
[In the past month or so, I've made a couple o...](https://community.appsheet.com/t/in-the-past-month-or-so-ive-made-a-couple-o/4330) Questions
In the past month or so, I’ve made a couple of apps that take data that have been submitted via a Google form and then stored in a Google spreadsheet and display them. I’m particularly pleased with the capability that AppSheet provides to display apps in browsers, instead of on a smartphone or tablet. In a university lecture context, this allows me to ask the students to use their smartphones to respond to a few questions and then display the results on a screen using AppSheet almost instantan…
With the new commitment from Google Cloud to integrate its services with AppSheet, perhaps it will become possible to make a Google form part of an AppSheet app such that it can be copied with it, as is the Google sheet.
By the way, I have found this kind of linkage between a Google form, a Google spreadsheet and an AppSheet app to be very useful in my classes. The Google form interface is quite convenient for collecting responses to questions I pose in class and the AppSheet app, displayed in my browser, makes for much better classroom presentation than a Google spreadsheet can provide (graphs, text, etc.).
If this issue remains unresolved (I haven’t tested it lately), perhaps you can mention it to Google Cloud, @praveen, as one fairly simple way to improve integration.
Here’s a tidbit from TechCrunch:
Google announced today that it is buying AppSheet, an eight-year-old no-code mobile-application-building platform. The company had raised more than $17 million on a $60 million valuation, according to PitchBook data. The companies did not share the purchase price.
Once again, congratulations!!
Congrats
Fantastic. Congratulations!
Any chance that AppSheet will become part of GSuite and thus part of GSuite licensing?
Thank you,
Max
Congratulations Appsheet!
At what cost though? That is the question which hasn’t been answered in an significant way.
Am I the only one that is a bit bummed about this. I have been using Google G-suite since it was on beta (Google Apps Suite). Great service, but you are pretty much on your own with Google. As for Appsheet, I have been completely taken back by the amount of customer service and help they provide. Questions get answered and people can find someone to help them on a whim. That is not a trait Google is known for. Are we going to be kissing that level of service good-bye?
Good point, @Arizno! I share your sentiments, both about AppSheet and Google Suite. I hope we can get some reassurance about this. With AppSheet, there are a handful of people (@praveen, etc.) that we know and, when they have time, will answer our questions and address our concerns directly. For me, the governance of Google Suite has been more of a black box – even though I like many aspects of the service, I don’t know who I’m dealing with. Even if AppSheet gets big (which, in many ways, will probably be a good thing for the strength of the platform) I hope the “small company” atmosphere can be maintained.
We’ll put sir!