Google apps premier Edition :Review
New challenge For Microsoft office applications.
The new Google APPS Premier edition which has been
available as a free service since August 2006 …
also u can try Google Apps Premier Edition for free through April 30th, 2007.
Google manages the software and infrastructure, so the companies need not worry about their data.
According to google:
“Google Apps helps you focus on what you do best by making it simple and inexpensive to provide robust mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document collaboration and web page publishing solutions.”
Main Features of Google apps premier Edition:
- Google Apps Premier Edition includes extensible API’s so you can integrate with your existing user directory.
- 10 GBs of storage per user.
- Google Apps Premier Edition also includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Gmail.
- 24×7 support.
- $50 per user account per year.
Google Apps Premier Edition’s Benefits:
- Operating system independent.
- Mobile office concept.
- Addition of new funtionality through API’s.
- Employees can also access Gmail from mobile devices.
- collaboration between many users, who can work together to create, modify and develop documents.
- Google Page Creator for web presence of companies.
Google apps disadvantages:
- No alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint application.
- Dependence on an Internet connection means vulnerability.
- Documents are stored on Google servers.
With all these features and benefits google is all set to
take out the big chunk from the microsoft office bussiness.
Also as it is new it will take some time for business houses to
become familiar with these online solutions…
lets see how the Google office bandwagon performs…
I just tried to sign up with the corporate version of Google Apps and dealt with iYogi people. It is the worst experience I have ever had. They lie to you up front about how much it costs to get set up. After getting through automated recordings, the customer representative I spoke with could not answer basic features of the service. They told us that they were going to call back within 20 minutes and 1.5 hours later we were still waiting. I am glad that the owners of Google have made billions for themselves but as far as the Google Apps service that they offer, it is the worst thing that I have seen in years. Totally disgusted.