Google Apps

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

Messaging challenges

Collaboration challenges

Technology challenges

Google Apps: tools for today's user

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.

Built on the cloud computing model

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Productivity with Google Apps

Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.

• Gmail works on any computer or mobile

• All applications on the cloud so instead of installing patches, changing passwords and fending off viruses.

• Employees at your company could communicate 36 % more with integrated e-mail, IM, Voice and video chat.

More reliable and secure

Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.

Better uptime than on-premise

Downtime per month (in minutes)

Purpose-built infrastructure• Hundreds of thousands of

identical servers• Custom, hardened Linux OS• Can rapidly update all systems• No third-party security issues

World Class Security• Industry-leading experts• Obfuscation of data at rest• Security reviews for all code

 SAS 70 Type II certification

FISMA certification  (in progress)

Dramatically lower costs

Source: Microsoft Online Services Business Value White Paper (Microsoft, 2009)Source: Should Your Email Live In The Cloud?’ (Ted Schadler, Forrester, 2009)

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