FAQ > Google Apps (18 entries)

Commonly asked questions about the Google Apps solution
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  • User benefits include: Data accessible from anywhere, on any computer platform 25GB of email inbox storage per user with powerful search capability  ...
  • Most companies have a cost model for provisioning email and productivity applications to employees - usually somewhere between $300 and $1000 per employee.
  • Gmail has over 10 million business users and growing. With Gmail, your inbox has substantial storage to minimize the need to delete email. Furthermore, there's powerful Google search functionality and ...
  • With Google Calendar, you can view the calendars of co-workers and colleagues from one online calendar. Their appointments are viewable right next to yours which streamlines event planning. Google Calendar also ...
  • Google Talk enables you to communicate more effectively and efficiently using text chat, video chat, and audio chat. You can see your contacts' presence and respond to an email via chat; ...
  • Google Docs improves the quality of output by enabling collaboration and discussion of the document simultaneously-- multiple people in multiple locations can view, discuss, and edit the same document from anywhere ...
  • Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and corporate announcements more personal, engaging and effective. Employees can securely share videos with select coworkers or everyone at the company without making ...
  • Businesses use Google Sites to make useful information accessible. Employees can create an intranet or let project teams build sites to capture and share departmental knowledge. File versioning is done automatically, ...
  • We launched Google Apps Premier Edition in February of 2007 and now (11/2008) have more than 1 million businesses with over 10 million active users on Apps, while signing up 3,000 ...
  • Google Apps provides fundamental communication and collaboration capabilities that are essential to every business user. Having said that, we're seeing rapid adoption in industries with mobile workforces, regionally disparate teams separated ...
  • Google Docs: Yes, Docs is compatible with Microsoft Office file formats and many other standards such as PDF, OpenOffice, and ODF. Standard Microsoft file formats are supported for import/export from and ...
  • Yes. Google Apps Premier Edition has a set of migration utilities and APIs to pull data from your existing systems and migrate that data to Google Apps. In addition, Google has ...
  • It's not our intention to try to match those products feature for feature. Our goal is to create a better overall experience and to enable new capabilities based on the unique ...
  • We recognize that offline capabilities are still critical in today's business world. Although broadband connectivity is becoming more ubiquitous, there are still scenarios where users need to be offline (e.g., airplanes). ...
  • Yes our solution has open APIs to all applications and you can get email, calendars, and documents back in other industry formats (IMAP, iCal, MS Office) for migration purposes.
  • No. Google operates what is called a "multi-tenant" environment. While there is logical separation between users and corporations, storage and compute power are shared across a vast computing array. This is ...
  • With traditional software, employees save data to insecure USB drives, discs and laptops for easy access. With Google Apps, because employees can access information securely from anywhere, they're less likely to ...
  • You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in content which you submit, post or display. As stated in our terms of service , we don't claim ownership or ...