Messaging

Google Mail has over 10 million business users and growing. Each user has 25GB of storage to minimise the need to delete email. Furthermore, there’s powerful Google search functionality and email/IM threading. Instant messaging is embedded in Google Mail so you can respond to an email in real-time. Also, your Google Mail is available from any computer so you’re no longer limited to answering email at your desk. Google Mail is simple to use, but not simplistic in its functionality, which means less time required for user training. You can also use Google Mail offline after enabling the offline feature in Google Mail Labs.

Google Talk enables you to communicate more effectively and efficiently using text chat, video chat, and audio chat. You can see your contacts’ presence and respond to an email via chat; this allows you to truly have real-time communication and increase the productivity of you and your work force. Because it is integrated with Google Mail, a client provider is not required. Also, the chronological email/IM discussion thread enables you to comprehend the full conversation history and context.


With Google Calendar, you can view the calendars of co-workers and colleagues from one online calendar. Their appointments are viewable right next to yours which streamlines event planning. Google Calendar also can be integrated with other components of Google Apps. You can communicate, share and collaborate via Google Mail, Talk and Calendar to reduce duplicate work and improve output efficiency.

Collaboration

Google Docs improves the quality of output by enabling collaboration and discussion of the document simultaneously-- multiple people in multiple locations can view, discuss, and edit the same document from anywhere at any time. It also reduces duplicate work and confusing document tracking and version control issues while simultaneously eliminating the concern of exceeding disk space and inbox quotas with the standard back and forth emailing procedure. Furthermore, Google Docs has secure sharing. Each Google Doc requires a login so you don’t have to worry about information getting into the wrong hands. All of your Docs are always available online within the Doclist.

Businesses use Google Sites to make useful information accessible. Employees can create an intranet or let project teams build sites to capture and share departmental knowledge. File versioning is done automatically, so it’s easy for people to make updates and get the latest version. Supported formats include .doc, .xls, .csv, .ppt, .txt, .pdf and more. Users can display Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, YouTube videos, Picasa slideshows and gadgets without any programming skills.


Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and corporate announcements more personal, engaging and effective. Employees can securely share videos with select coworkers or everyone at the company without making confidential information public. Google securely hosts and streams your videos, so employees don’t need to share videos over email, or burden IT for a video solution. Employees can share videos instantly. Viewing and annotating doesn’t require any special software, just a standard browser.

* Price based on Google Apps™ Premier Edition for 1 user for 1 yr.