Some major benefits of switching to Google Apps
1. Proven cost savings.
With Google's web-based email, messaging and collaboration apps you will require no hardware or software and will need minimal administration, which will be creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses.
End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to Gmail and Google Calendar.
A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.
2. More web space.
Each webmail account gets 7.5 GB for email storage, so users can keep important messages and also find them instantly with the built-in Google search.
Gmail is designed so employees/users can spend less time managing their inboxes, and more time being productive. Time-saving features like message threading, message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help employees work efficiently with high volumes of email.
3. 99.9% uptime reliability guarantee.
We guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime.
With synchronous replication, your data and activity in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites is simultaneously preserved in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service.
The Radicati Group found that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month.
4. Information security and compliance.
When you trust your organization's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure.
Google's information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application and network security, are focused on keeping your data and information safe. Google and many other customers trust this system with highly sensitive corporate data.
Organizations get these customizable security features with Google Apps:
· Custom spam and inbound mail filtering tools, powered by Postini, to complement powerful spam filters that automatically work with no up-front configuration.
· Custom outbound mail filtering tools to prevent sensitive information from being distributed, powered by Postini.
· Custom information sharing rules to determine how broadly employees are allowed to share with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites.
· Custom password length requirements and visual strength indicators to help employees pick secure passwords.
· Enforced SSL connections with Google Apps to ensure secure HTTPS access.
· Optional email archiving, up to 10 years of retention.
System branding and data ownership give Google Apps your look and feel, and ensures customer ownership of employee data.
· Custom user accounts on your company’s internet domain.
· Custom logo and colors in the applications.
· Contractual customer ownership of employee data.
5. Helpful 24/7 customer support
Google Apps is highly reliable and easy to operate, but support is available.
Support options include:
· Phone support for critical issues.
· Email support.
· Self-service online support.
Google Apps also has a deep network of partners ready to help businesses with deployment, data migration, user training, system integration and custom application development.
Sun, 04/18/2010 - 05:51 - TechnicalSupport
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