Expanding the Google Apps Reporting API for resellers

Cross-posted on the Google Apps Developer Blog

The Google Apps Reporting API lets administrators programmatically get information about their Google Apps environment, and today we're expanding access to the API for Google Apps Authorized Resellers. Resellers can use the API to gain a better understanding of how their customers are using Google Apps, so they can better personalize the service they provide to their customers.

Specifically, resellers can retrieve the following usage reports with the API:

• Accounts – Contains a list of the customer’s end-user accounts on a particular day.
  
• Activity – Identifies the number of customer end-user accounts as well as the number of active and idle accounts over several different time periods.
  
• Disk Space – Shows the amount of disk space used by a customer’s mailboxes.
  
• Email Clients – Identifies how the customer’s end-users access their accounts on a day-by-day basis.
  
• Summary – Contains the customer’s total number of accounts, total mailbox storage usage and total mailbox quota.

The Reporting API is one of several features we’ve been working on to let Google Apps resellers – over 2,000 and growing – understand and serve their customers better. If you’re an IT solution provider, we invite you to learn more and get started building a practice around bringing Google Apps to your customers. The Google Apps Authorized Reseller program is designed to help you enhance and strengthen your customer relationships.

Posted by Namrata Gupta, Google Apps Engineer