Google Apps Premier edition is an excellent choice for small businesses. Implementation of the Gmail portion of Google Apps and great additional applications like Google Talk and Google Docs can help you increase productivity, increase reliability, and increase collaboration. With our implementation management of Google Apps, you will get:

• Full management of the migration process
• Migration of all current emails to the new system
• Full configuration of all current user’s email clients
• Administrative setup
• Custom domain setup (i.e. mail.yourwebsite.com)
• Training for new users and administrators

Email via Google Apps Gmail

Google Apps Gmail isn’t the same as a basic Gmail account. This is a robust email client and email host that provides full integration with Microsoft Outlook and other email clients while providing the best web interface out there and some other killer features. For all intents and purposes, you can make the switch to Google Apps for your email provider, replace your Microsoft Exchange server or provider, and not notice a difference except for better performance and a lower cost. If you want to see additional differences, login to your custom Gmail account and see all the search, archive, and other features. The best features of Google Apps email are:

• Cost Savings – Reduce your cost to $50 a year for each user using Google Apps Premier Edition. No other costs.
• Mobile access to email, calendar, contacts, and messaging
• 99.9% uptime guaranteed
• 25 GB of storage space
• Information security and compliance
• Full administrative and data control
• 24/7 Support
• Integration with all major email clients
• The best email web client

Google Docs

With Google Apps you will also get access to Google docs, which allows you to create, edit, and share Word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online. This gives you the ability to work remotely, work with users who don’t have Microsoft Office, and free up storage space. While most organizations won’t utilize a full implementation of Google Docs, it is helpful for increasing collaboration with remote employees/locations.

Google Calendar

Google calendar provides many of the same features as Outlook calendar but also provides some additional features that make it better. It’s an easy to use calendar that’s hosted online and provides many sharing features and integration with other calendars to make it a fully featured corporate calendar. Integration with Microsoft Outlook and the ability to share your calendar with everyone in your domain or even people outside your domain makes Google calendar an easy choice.

Google Contacts

Providing a fully featured interface and all the fields you need for contacts, Google contacts is a great choice and feature of Google apps. What makes it a really great contact program is that you can share your contacts with everyone in your company and even synch them with many mobile phones. This is one of the best reasons to pick Google Apps.

Google Talk

This Instant Messaging Client is light-weight, integrated with your contacts, and easy to use. Help reduce unnecessary phone calls and emails by using Google Talk with your employees. The integration with Google Talk is a nice plus to a Google Apps implementation.

Summary of Google Apps

Google is focused on the user experience and their creation of Google Apps provides excellent tools for small businesses and large businesses alike. The online tools are easy to use and intuitive and the integration with business standard tools like Microsoft Outlook really makes this a must have. Google is consistently testing new features with businesses and integrating only the most well received features. I can tell you that using some of these “beta” features, like new calendar features, has shown me that Google isn’t just trying to be as good as other business tools but is becoming the leader in business email, contacts, calendar, and collaboration tools that every other company is chasing.

Contact Us today

Whether you have an existing Microsoft Exchange Implementation or you’re looking to implement a new email solution, we can help. Contact our team today to give you a customized analysis and implementation quote. We can answer any questions about the migration you may have.