eBusinessware’s latest collaboration: Google Apps

eBusinessware has always believed in working in a collaborated environment to provide its clients the best possible services and knowledge base available in the market, and that’s been the key success generating factor in all its dealings. The latest and a very unique collaboration that eBusinessware has entered into is with Google (yes, Google!) in reselling it’s premium e-mail and collaboration tools service known as Google Apps.

Google Apps Premier Edition is Google’s Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for business messaging, collaboration, and security. It includes Gmail, with integrated voice and video chat, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video. Google Apps is a reliable, cost-effective solutions for keeping employees connected and improving their productivity. In other words, Google Apps is a suite of applications that includes Gmail, Google Calendar (shared calendaring), Google Talk (instant messaging and voice over IP), Google Docs & Spreadsheets (online document hosting and collaboration), Google Sites (team site creation and publishing), Start Page (a single, customizable access point for all applications), Google Video, and Google Security & Compliance. This happens to be a wide offering with various usage scope for different kinds of people- a separate version for educational institutions, different edition and set of services for big organizations and a different edition for small enterprises.

I feel that a brand name like Google is good enough to sell anything in today’s Internet-savvy market. The service provides various integrated applications which can be utilized among all internal employees of an organization and help them to upgrade their efficiency level.

The Dynamic Combo offered by Google Apps:-
Gmail :- Who doesn’t identify and use Gmail in today’s world. It is the simplest and most effective email service provided today by a brand that has a reputation around the world. The first and foremost important offering in Google Apps is the Gmail integration feature.

Gmail provides control of Spam by giving advanced filters in employees’ in boxes so that they can focus on messages that matter. How many times have you seen Spam in your in box? The premium edition offers 25 Gigs of storage per user means that inbox quotas and deletion schedules are a thing of the past with Google Apps. It provides Integrated instant messaging ,Built-in voice and video chat , search felicity ,Protection and security for sensitive information and Mobile integration for the companies top brass who use the Blackberry or the IPhone, free of cost. Apart from the general features, there are Message Recovery and Archiving options and options for Migrating existing email.

Google Docs:- Another key offering and a very unique feature that is being offered by Google Apps is Google Docs. Picture this- you have to create a document and then send it out to your sales team. Everyone will add their updates and then send it back to you for the final editing and compilation. Now Imagine, if you could create a document online and share it with the relevant people and they could simultaneously edit it with their changes online and make a final document with minimum hassle and exchange of mails, wouldn’t life suddenly become easier? This is exactly where Google Docs steps in to make things more organized for you. A word document, a PowerPoint presentation or an excel sheet, all can be created online and be shared with anyone you want in the organization. It would be Real time updation which will minimize wastage of time and exchange of mails with big attachments.

Following are the main features of Google Docs -

Real-time, simultaneous editing
No need for file attachments
Embed Docs on web pages
Present and publish through the web
Easy-to-make surveys and web forms
Use pre-built, customizable templates
Manage and access files online
Work seamlessly with traditional file formats

Google Calendar:- is the third of the many offerings of Google Apps- Want to schedule a meeting with some senior level people? Want to see their availability for a particular meeting?- Now just go to their calendar which is shared and see a free time when they can sit with you and get the work done. Once you set up a meeting, an immediate mail will be sent to all the participants and you will be notified once they accept the meeting invitation.

To view all the offerings of Google Apps please visit the link below

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Google Apps is the latest step towards Google’s new claim which it calls “in the cloud”. They say that the future is only of the Internet.They refer to it as the“Cloud” and everything will be available online. More and more people are storing their data (such as documents, calendars, email, and photos) online “in the cloud” with services like Google Apps. All that you need is an Internet connection to access and share that information with friends, family, and co-workers. The latest trends in the laptop industry is the Cheap easy to carry “Net-books”. These are very handy small devices which are becoming excessively popular in the US. All they are used for is browsing the Internet. You can connect via Wi-Fi or by LAN. They are fully dependant on Internet but there is no place in US where you cannot access the Internet. Though in India the Internet felicity is still years behind. The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals. Cloud computing customers do not generally own the physical infrastructure serving as host to the software platform in question. Instead, they avoid capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider.

To take on the biggest software provider of the world, ‘Microsoft Corp.’ and to stop their monopoly,Google has also announced Google Chrome Operating System, which is basically hoping to cash on the success of Net-books. It has claimed that every net-book by late 2010 will come with the Google Chrome OS. Google owns several companies including YouTube and Grand-Central, and Google Apps which may integrate across the family of Google companies. Google will not leave any open option for Microsoft to be the market monopoly holder and harass the consumers, and I see Google succeeding in that in a very small time period.