Google Apps for Business

Google Apps for Business secure, reliable business applications in the cloud
More than two million businesses already use Google Apps for Business moving to the cloud with secure, reliable workplace tools for email, document production, web publishing, and more. With powerful, easy-to-use applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs, Google Apps helps reduce IT costs and help employees collaborate more e ectively wherever and whenever they work. As a standalone o ce productivity suite or integrated with your existing IT solutions, Google Apps brings your users the latest innovations while dramatically reducing the costs, complexity, and maintenance needs inherent in on-premise solutions. Since Google Apps for Business o ers the familiar user experience that millions of people choose for their personal email and communications, it integrates into your business workow with minimal training or support. Google Apps includes:
For more information visit: [Link]/a Google Apps saves us millions of dollars over ve years over any of the alternatives that we looked at and provides us with worldwide disaster recovery, unprecedented integration and device independence. Todd Pierce, VP of IT, Genentech One of the huge benets that Google Apps brings is never having to upgrade again. And not only that, but Googles giving us something new every single day. Brent Hoag, Director of IT, JohnsonDiversey

Gmail A state-of-the-art email system that provides 50x the storage of a typical inbox, built-in spam ltering, language translation, search, and integrated IM, voice, and video chat. Gmail delivers a total workplace communication solution thats securely accessible from any browser and on the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android devices, and other smart phones. Google Docs An innovative suite of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing applications that support real-time collaboration, easy version control, and interoperability with a wide range of document formats. Access controls make it easy for co-workers worldwide to view or edit docs and to manage levels of access both within and outside of their domain.

Gmail and Google Docs (shown: Spreadsheets) Google Sites Tools that let users create and publish their own web pages without knowing code or needing technical support, making it easy to centralize documents, calendars, media, and more. Google Sites supports dynamic updates, ensuring data currency and keeping everyone on the same page. Google Groups Easy-to-manage group information sharing that lets users keep work teams updated on document content and changes to shared calendars, sites, and more. Integrates seamlessly across the Google Apps suite, making it easy to update teams via email or web discussions.

In addition to empowering employees across the city, everyone will benet from Googles security controls, which will provide a higher level of security for City data than exists with our current system. Randi Levin, Chief Technology O cer, City of Los Angeles We looked long and hard and analyzed in much detail the security that Google o ered in this space and at the end of the day, a world class security team from Motorola came back and said this is ready to go. Walt Oswald, VP of IT, Motorola Mobile Devices

Google Video Secure video hosting and streaming, with no need to to email large les, store videos locally, or purchase a video storage solution. Employees can upload or view internal videos without any special software just a standard browser. Google Apps delivers: Security Googles network of data centers is engineered for security, reliability, and redundancy and backed by the worlds foremost experts in information security. Millions of organizations trust this infrastructure the same network that hosts Googles own applications and data to keep their most important corporate data safe. Google Apps has received SAS 70 Type II and is working to achieve FISMA certication. It delivers these built-in security features: customizable inbound and outbound mail ltering tools, powered by Postini automatic, policy-based email encryption encrypted browser sessions using HTTPS remote user log out and cookie resets audit API for supervision and compliance Google Apps integrates into your existing security infrastructure, with a single sign-on API that authenticates employees with their existing LDAP or other single sign-on system. Applications run using your domain and you maintain ownership of your data at all times. Reliability Google Apps application and network architecture is built for maximum reliability and uptime, with inherent redundancy and independent subsystems. Googles service level agreement guarantees 99.9% uptime for Google Apps for Business customers. Disaster recovery Disaster recovery is built in to Google Apps. Data is replicated multiple times across Googles clustered active servers, so, in the case of a specic failure, data remains accessible through another system. Google also replicates data to secondary data centers to ensure safety from data center failures. Value Google Apps can reduce costs by up to two-thirds relative to competing solutions. By reducing the need for on-premise hardware, software, upgrades and the maintenance and downtime they require Google Apps reduces IT costs and complexity, helping businesses focus more on their core capabilities. Constant innovation Google continually adds functionality to Google Apps, giving users the latest productivity tools without the need for system updates, contract renewals, or downtime. Google Apps delivered more than 80 new features in 2009, at no additional charge to users and without the complexity associated with traditional software upgrades. Easy deployment Google Apps includes tools for easily migrating users from nearly any email system, and even supports the continuity of legacy systems while adding additional storage, access options, and spam ltering. Google Apps Marketplace The Google Apps Marketplace o ers a range of products and services designed to extend and customize the Google Apps experience with business-specic capabilities that integrate directly with Google Apps. Archiving and e-Discovery Archiving and discovery for Google Apps, powered by Postini, provides administrators a centralized, searchable email archive. Administrators have the ability to set email retention periods for up to 10 years to comply with corporate policies. They can also implement litigation holds to preserve email messages and identify and export email messages for further analysis & review. Google Apps customers can purchase archiving and search tools as an add-on product for Google Apps for Business.
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