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Aligned Technology Solutions is a Google Apps Partner. Google Apps can help you dramatically reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while providing a multitude of new capabilities to your organization.

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Google Apps

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Business challenges are changing

Information overload• Volume of information is increasing radically• Sort, file, and find is a broken paradigm

Collaboration is central• Work with global, distributed teams• Connect with external partners

Access anywhere• Proliferation of smart phones• Struggles with VPNs

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Google offers a new approach

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Tools for today's workers

Gmail  Huge inbox with search.  Keep and find everything.

Talk  Business class IM and VC as easy as email.

Groups  Let users easily create and work in teams.

Calendar  Make sharing calendars and schedules easy.

Docs  Makes collaborating as easy as creating.

Sites  Allow users to manage their own sites.

Video  Unlock the power of video within your business.

Postini  Security and compliance solutions.

Google Cloud Connect  Co-authoring in Microsoft Office.

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Best tools for business

Information overload• Lots of storage: don't worry about quotas• Search built into every application• Labels and threading: new ways to cope

Collaboration is central• Make collaborating as easy as creating• Remove the IT barrier to collaboration

Access anywhere• Mobile versions for applications• Web-based, no VPN and no thumb drive

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That just keep getting better

Frequent, small updates• Weekly release cycle• Easier for users to adjust• Customers control pace

Easy to manage• No server or client upgrades• No data migration• Everyone is on the latest release

       68 releases                  118 releases                    133 releases

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Productivity from any device

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3 million businesses have gone Google

3,000 more sign-up every day

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Google Apps Customers

Name Employees Revenue Users Previous System

Rentokil 78,242 $2.5B 35,000 Multiple - including Exchange

Electronics Solutions Company

60,000 $12B 34,000 Exchange

City of LA 34,000 Government 34,000 GroupWise

Valeo 49,000 30,000 Notes

Motorola 53,000 $22B 20,000Sanmina SCI 37,000 $5B 15,000 Exchange

MWV 20,000 $6B 12,000 Notes and Exchange

Genentech 12,000 $13.5B 12,000Diversey 12000 $3B 12,000 Notes

Sabic Private Private 12,000

KLM 31,182 11,000 -

Avago 3,000 $1.5B 3,000 Exchange

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GMail

Manage information better• 25GB quotas per user - never waste

time managing quotas again• Search your email -- find what you need

quickly and easily• Use labels to filter and sort messages• Conversation threading to help manage

your inbox

Anytime, anywhere access• Web access from any connection• Mobile access: Blackberry, iPhone, Android,

Windows Mobile• Outlook Connector: allow users • to keep their existing client

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Talk

Real-time communications• Instant messaging with text• Simple voice and video communications• IMs archived and searchable with email• Integrated directly into the Inbox

Simple to deploy and manage• No client applications• Built right into the web-browser• Video available on any machine with a

webcam

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Groups

Simple configuration by users• Users can create and manage groups --

without help from IT• Rich capabilities to customize groups• IT can control access to some features

Use groups everywhere• Groups serve as email distribution lists• Full searchable archive online for users• Also useful for defining access controls on

documents, sites, and videos

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Calendar

Rich functionality• Quickly add meetings and find available

times and resources• Sync to Blackberry, iPhone, Android and

Windows Mobile

Share calendars for easier collaboration• Corporate calendars• Team calendars• Launch calendars• Even external calendars

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Docs

Essential editing capabilities• Word processing, spreadsheet, and

presentation capabilities• Unique features like forms for

spreadsheets and remote viewing of presentations

Focused on collaboration• Real time co-authoring built into all of the

applications• Control access to documents at user,

group, and company levels

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Sites

Simple creation of  rich sites by users• No knowledge of HTML required• No need for admin assistance• WYSIWYG editor• Use templates to define default Site and

page types• Embed Docs, Calendars, Maps and other

content Gadgets 

Lots of use cases• Personal sites• Team sites• Project sites• Department sites• Even public sites

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Video

Easy to upload and share• YouTube-like interface for uploading• Share with individuals, groups, or the

whole company• User can rate and comment on videos• Variable speed play-back to save time

Lots of use cases• Internal messages• Executive communications• Internal  training• Team motivation

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Marketplace

Extend Google Apps• Easily discover, purchase and deploy web

apps that integrate with Google Apps• Move faster: SSO, easy navigation from

Google Apps, shared data across all apps• Find secure apps with TRUSTe certification• Access all your apps anytime, anywhere

Your entire business in the cloud• Ditch your servers and let all of your

apps work together in the cloud...o Accounting / Financeo CRMo Project Managemento Web Meetingso Many more...

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Improving value proposition

Google Apps in 2007 Google Apps in 2011

$50 per user/per year

$50 per user/per year

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2010 Reliability comparison

Source: Microsoft Online Service Notifications (Microsoft)Source: Google Apps Status Dashboard

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Google and Aligned Technology Solutions

Google Apps Benefits• World-Class Products and Solutions• Rapidly Deployable• Unrivaled Mobility and Collaboration• Greatest Value• Simple, Straightforward Pricing

Aligned Technology Solutions• Authorized Google Reseller• Expertise• Portfolio of Successful Implementations• Responsive Support• Affordable Services

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Pricing

Google Apps• $50 per user / per year• Includes Mail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Sites

Spam Filtering and more!!!

Aligned Technology Solutions• Basic Implementation (one time costs)

• $1,200 for up to 100 mailboxes• Option – Migrate existing email

• $18 per mailbox • Monthly Support

• $160 for up to 100 Mailboxes