Tuesday, January 27, 2009

New savings calculator: Google Apps vs. Exchange 2007

Ever wonder how much your customers might save when using Google Apps instead of an on-premise system like Exchange 2007? If so, check out the new savings calculator on the Google Apps site: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value.html.

Just enter a couple key stats about your customer's business, and we'll estimate how much a basic Microsoft Exchange 2007 deployment would cost, and what you could save with Google Apps

Offline Gmail now available in Gmail Labs

We just announced availability of one of our most requested features: offline access for Gmail.

Since this feature is being released first in Gmail Labs, we have set up a dedicated Google Group where you can learn more about how the feature works, discuss with other users, and troubleshoot should the need arise: http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-help-offline

Google I/O Developer Conference Announced: May 27-28 2009

The 2009 Google I/O Conference was just announced over on Google Code blog:
I'm excited to announce Google I/O 2009, our two-day developer event that will take place May 27-28, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Last year, over 3,000 developers participated in I/O and they attended 90+ sessions across all of our developer products.

Note there will be a number of sessions focused on commercial/business developers as well. Please check out the conference Site (http://code.google.com/events/io/) and mark your calendars for a great developer-focused event.

Reseller program qualifying deployments registration form available

With the announcement of the reseller program 2 weeks ago, we provided our enrollment process for prospective resellers.

To those of you quickly working your way through the process, we've now updated the initial deployment registration page with a link to a form for registering your initial deployment(s) as detailed in the Apprenticeship stage of the above process.

Applicants can and should get started right away however the final stage of becoming an authorized reseller will not be available until March 2009.

Many questions around this have been addressed in the program operations forum. And we'll continue to evolve the reseller program FAQ.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Webinar: City of Canton adopts Google Apps

Come hear Camille Wehs, the IT director (and sole IT support) for the City of Canton, Georgia. Canton was the fifth-fastest growing city in the United States according to the 2005 US census. With her on-premise software not keeping up, she moved to Google Apps and is feeling great about it. Her employees have more functionality, anytime/anywhere access to email and documents and a better ability to directly control costs. And for her?

* Savings of thousands of dollars
* Decreased IT effort of 10%

Camille is happy to share her lessons learned in a webcast for you.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
1:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm CT / 10:00 PT
Register at: http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=902343

She will be on hand to answer questions about how they brought Google Apps into the City of Canton government offices and why that decision is helping them succeed.

By registering, we will send you a link to the recording of the event, so that you can view it as often as you like and send to your colleagues.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Google Apps Authorized Reseller program announced

Today we launched the Google Apps Authorized Reseller program, designed to allow technology solution providers to sell Google Apps™ to businesses around the world.

For more information:
1) See the Google blog post
2) Learn more about the program on the program home page: http://www.google.com/apps/resellers
3) Find resources to become a reseller on the portal: http://apps.gepportal.com