Google Apps can be a great asset to any small business. With Google Apps, you get the power of communication and collaboration that will help bring productivity to another level. Google Apps includes email with professional web addresses (yourname@yourcompany.com) with up to 10 gigabytes of storage per account.
With Google’s publishing tools, it is easier to deliver important information to both employees and customers. Use Google Talk to communicate with your employees or Google Calendar to organize meetings.
Best of all, there is no hardware or software to download, install or maintain. It is all hosted by Google with a 24/7 tech staff. If you don’t have an internet domain, Google will help you register one once you sign up.
Tools available
- Gmail
- 10 GB of email storage per custom email account, mail search tools, and integrated chat.
- Start Page
- Get all everything you need from one place, access to your inbox, calendar, docs, search and company info.
- Control Panel
- Manage your domain and user accounts online.
- Google Talk Google Talk
- Call anyone with Google Talk around the world or chat for free.
- Google Docs
- Work simultaniously on documents in real-time. Google Docs now includes presentation, word processor, and spreadsheet.
- Google Code Extensibility APIs
- Extend and integrate existing IT systems or 3rd party solutions.
- Google Calendar
- Decide when and where meetings and company events will be held with sharable calendars.
- Page Creator
- Create and publish web pages easily.
- Security and compliance
- Policy management and message recovery.
- Help and support
- 24/7 tech assistance including phone support for critical issues.
Written: Oct 19, 2007
Tags: business, google, google apps, tech friday
Graham Smith
March 25, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
I found this amazing suite of app’s only a few weeks ago. I mean I knew about them, but never gave it any thought.
Then I was doing a interview and I needed to send a draft to the chap, and I was trying to work out the best way to do it, so that he could make changes etc. I don’t have Word any more, so the Track Changes option was imporant in this case.
So Google just jumped into my head, I popped over and signed up. Within minutes, my files was saves with Google Doc, and I had sent a invitation to the chap with the files for him to look at and modify. All without saving duplicate versions on the Mac, on my email etc.
I have only used Doc, but I am looking at the others. It’s a terrific piece of kit for what it does. This whole thing of having your docs ‘off-site’ immediately available wherever you are (assuming upi have a internet connection) is so valuable nowadays.
Great stuff.