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Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice . To help smooth the transition from Office to the cloud, my teammates and I founded a company called DocVerse, which was acquired by Google earlier this year. Over the last 9 months, we’ve been hard at work moving the DocVerse product to Google’s infrastructure.
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers
Millions of businesses are experiencing radical productivity gains with web-powered tools, and today Google Apps collaboration is ready for every employee. We’re bringing multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications that coworkers may still need from time to time. More people will be able to achieve a 100% web future entirely in Google Docs after learning the benefits of web-powered collaboration within traditional software. Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is now available to all users worldwide, letting two or more people work together on the same file at the same time in Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 on Windows PCs. For example, you can edit a Word document’s table of contents from Dublin while coworkers adjust formatting and make revisions from Denver.
Teach your old docs new tricks with Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
Google's Gmail has captured less than 1% of the enterprise e-mail market, according to Gartner. Despite a few high-profile deployments, most Google Apps customers have only around 50 users, making the overall number of business users relatively small, the analyst firm says. Google Apps vs.
Google's Gmail has less than 1% of enterprise e-mail market, Gartner says
Google's Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace . Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? These 10 are definitely worth a look. Box.net is one of many online file storage sites, but from its launch, it's been focused on adding features that business and enterprise customers can use. Attached to your own web storage, Box.net's features shine through. The service has many webapp partners that can fax, print, secure, edit, and otherwise handle all kinds of documents, and Box.net itself can integrate into many enterprise software packages, set up conference calls and web conferences centered around documents, and otherwise link together the files you've stashed away and the people who work on them. [ Apps Marketplace link ] Price: free for Box.net business users, $15 per user per month for new users.
Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps
IBM intros Lotus cloud suite, partners with Skype, SF.com
IBM has introduced LotusLive , which it describes as a portfolio of integrated Internet-hosted services for social networking and collaboration in workplaces. LotusLive's Web site is now the portal where all of IBM's Lotus "cloud" offerings are located, including e-mail, collaboration and Web conferencing, IBM announced Monday at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando. At LotusLive.com, organizations can find a suite of hosted collaboration and communication services designed to be easy to use and adopt, without requiring a hefty IT investment, IBM said. To continue reading, register here to become an Insider .
One of the unique strengths of Cloud Sherpas is that we were Lotus experts before we were Google experts. With over 25 years of combined Lotus/Domino system administration, application development, operations and support experience, our Lotus veterans will understand the unique requirements of your environment, regardless of your current Lotus Notes/Domino platform version or total number of users. Lotus Notes/Domino migrations are different. These migrations often require special consideration in a number of areas.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Roughly nine months after Google Inc. edged out rival Microsoft Corp. to win a high-profile contract to supply email and collaboration software to the City of Los Angeles, the company has missed a June deadline for full implementation due to lingering security concerns. The delay is a setback for one of Google's most strategic businesses, and an illustration of troubles that large organizations can encounter as they shift to a so-called "cloud computing" model, in which data and applications are stored and accessed online. Google's /quotes/zigman/93888 /quotes/nls/goog GOOG -0.63% failure to have all municipal employees outfitted with Google Apps by the June 30 deadline will have the company and its implementation partner reimbursing L.A. for extra costs, as the city continues to rely on former supplier Novell Inc. , according to Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin.
Google misses deadline in high-profile L.A. deal - MarketWatch
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications . Google App Engine has received some needed upgrades to its service that customers have been asking for over the past several months. Customers have been asking for such things as an increase in the amount of data that can be uploaded in a URL Fetch and an increase in the 30 second limits to upload data.
Google App Engine Gets Some Needed Upgrades - ReadWriteCloud
The reason why I am rewriting this post is because Patrick Chanezon (from Google), has added a kind and respectful comment to this post. Given the huge amount of traffic this post has generated (never expected nor wanted) I don't want to damage the GAE project which can be a great platform in the future. People haven't understand my point apparently because of the dramatic writing style of the original post.
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Cloud Sherpas has developed and executed Google Apps migration strategies for clients across a variety of industries, including: Manufacturing, Non-profit, Retail, Services, and Real Estate. As you’ll find out below, we also have experience with a variety of on-premise solutions, from the major players like Microsoft Exchange, IBM’s Lotus Notes/Domino, and Novell GroupWise, all the way to niche, open-source alternatives. Our goal is to provide you with a story that might be similar to your future migration. If you don’t find what you are looking for, contact us and ask for more material. We’re adding clients every day , so it’s more than likely that we have experience with a similar migration.
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Founded in 2008, we've helped over 1 million end-users from hundreds of organizations migrate to Google Apps from their legacy mail systems, resulting in lower costs, increased productivity, and streamlined IT processes. Cloud Sherpas simplifies the process of Going Google. Through our vast experience with Google technologies, we’ve created proven methodologies and have become the #1 Google Apps Authorized Reseller .
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Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, has raised another $1.6 million in funding led by Syncarpha Capital, Vento Security Holdings and Hallett Capital , the investment vehicle of Cloud Sherpas’ CEO, Jon Hallett . This investment follows additional $1 million of funding the startup raised earlier this year.