Today we announced that the Google OpenID Federated Login API has been extended to Google Apps accounts. This means that Apps users can now securely sign in to third party websites using their Google Apps user account, without sharing their credentials with third parties.
Additionally, Google apps can now become an identity hub for multiple SaaS providers. Partners such as Ping Identity and Manymoon.com have been among the early adopters of the Google OpenID Federated Login API, and we're excited about the opportunity this provides to others.
To learn more, read our post on the Google Code Blog, or join the discussions in the Google Federated Login API Group.
The OpenID Federated Login Service is available for all Google Apps editions. However, it is disabled by default for the Premier and Education editions, and it requires the domain administrator to manually enable it from the Control Panel. Learn how to enable it for an individual domain.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Live Webinar: Resellers Share Their Experiences
This Wednesday Sheepdog and Dito, two of our early Google Apps Authorized Resellers, will join us live to share their experiences with the reseller program. Learn about the challenges they've faced, how the program has positively impacted their businesses, and best practices for acquiring new customers.
Live Webinar: Resellers Share Their Experiences
Wednesday, July 29
10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT
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Live Webinar: Resellers Share Their Experiences
Wednesday, July 29
10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT
Register
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
New! Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes
Switching to Google Apps from Lotus Notes just got easier. Today we released a new tool, Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes, that migrates mail, calendar and contacts quickly and easily. The tool is a native Notes application and its many features make it a simple and complete way to quickly switch your customers to Google Apps.
Google partner CapGemini used the tool to migrate Valeo, an automotive supplier with 30,000 employees. As CapGemini IT Project Lead Philippe Bonnemains says, "We used it for Valeo and for several other enterprise customers. Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes is clearly a great solution for Notes-based companies that want to quickly and efficiently provide users with continuity of mail archives, contacts and calendars, while moving to Google Apps."
More and more customers like Fairchild Semiconductor, Hamilton Beach, JohnsonDiversey and Valeo are migrating their users from Lotus Notes to Google Apps. To learn more about our new migration tool and how to position Google Apps to Lotus Notes users, join our Master Seller Webinar this Thursday.
Position Apps to Lotus Notes Users
Thursday, July 16, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
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Until then, you can learn more about the tool in our Lotus Notes resource center and see how it works in this short video:
Google partner CapGemini used the tool to migrate Valeo, an automotive supplier with 30,000 employees. As CapGemini IT Project Lead Philippe Bonnemains says, "We used it for Valeo and for several other enterprise customers. Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes is clearly a great solution for Notes-based companies that want to quickly and efficiently provide users with continuity of mail archives, contacts and calendars, while moving to Google Apps."
More and more customers like Fairchild Semiconductor, Hamilton Beach, JohnsonDiversey and Valeo are migrating their users from Lotus Notes to Google Apps. To learn more about our new migration tool and how to position Google Apps to Lotus Notes users, join our Master Seller Webinar this Thursday.
Position Apps to Lotus Notes Users
Thursday, July 16, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Register
Until then, you can learn more about the tool in our Lotus Notes resource center and see how it works in this short video:
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
New! Google Apps is Out of Beta
This year we've focused on making it as easy as possible for large enterprises to switch to Google by launching new features and removing key barriers to adoption. Today, we're taking this one step further. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk are now out of beta, alleviating doubt that Apps is a mature product suite.
We're also continuing to implement procedures that offer our Apps customers even greater reliability. These include live replication of data to other locations for near-instant disaster recovery, and special handling of business users' data in our data center operations.
Finally, in the coming weeks we'll be launching email delegation and retention to help companies manage email and comply with industry regulations. Both features are in testing and will be rolled out to Premier Edition customers as soon as they're ready.
All of these new features together highlight that now is the time to switch to Google Apps. To make it easier for enterprise IT managers to access tools and learn more about switching, we've built out resource centers for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. Take a look to see how we're positioning Apps to these two key audiences. For more details on the new launches, read our post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog.
We're also continuing to implement procedures that offer our Apps customers even greater reliability. These include live replication of data to other locations for near-instant disaster recovery, and special handling of business users' data in our data center operations.
Finally, in the coming weeks we'll be launching email delegation and retention to help companies manage email and comply with industry regulations. Both features are in testing and will be rolled out to Premier Edition customers as soon as they're ready.
All of these new features together highlight that now is the time to switch to Google Apps. To make it easier for enterprise IT managers to access tools and learn more about switching, we've built out resource centers for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. Take a look to see how we're positioning Apps to these two key audiences. For more details on the new launches, read our post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Advertising with AdWords
Join us next Wednesday to learn how to create a successful lead generation campaign with AdWords. We'll go over keyword selection, landing page development, local targeting, conversion tracking and more.
Next Master Seller Webinar: Advertising with AdWords
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Register
We will also be repeating last week's webinar on the recent Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook and Google Apps Connector for BES announcements. This final webinar is being held to accommodate resellers in the Asia and Asia Pacific time zone.
Leverage New Features to Position Apps against Exchange
Thursday, July 2, 2009
12:00 pm WST and SST, 9:00 pm PDT
Register
Next Master Seller Webinar: Advertising with AdWords
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Register
We will also be repeating last week's webinar on the recent Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook and Google Apps Connector for BES announcements. This final webinar is being held to accommodate resellers in the Asia and Asia Pacific time zone.
Leverage New Features to Position Apps against Exchange
Thursday, July 2, 2009
12:00 pm WST and SST, 9:00 pm PDT
Register
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
New! Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps
Today we're excited to announce that it's even easier to make the switch to Google Apps with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. This new feature lets customers use Microsoft Outlook seamlessly with Google Apps Premier or Education Editions.
Many businesses are interested in adopting Google Apps but they've been unable to make the transition because of some employees that do not want to give up the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface. Now with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, businesses can move forward deploying Google Apps, even if some users want to keep using Outlook. The plug-in enables employees to switch from Outlook to the Gmail interface at their own pace giving them their choice of interface, and IT departments their choice of email infrastructure.
Key features include:
- Email, calendar and contacts synchronization. For email, the plug-in uses the offline Gmail protocol, which is much faster than IMAP or other methods.
- Free/Busy lookup and Global Address List functionality, which makes it easy to schedule meetings with your colleagues, regardless of whether they use Outlook's calendar or Google Calendar.
- A simple, two-click data migration tool which allows employees to easily copy existing data from Exchange or Outlook into Google Apps.
Three key service providers - NuVox, Netfirms and IKANO - have already begun offering Google Apps Sync. NuVox, a leading telecom provider in the Southeast and Midwest, sees "an incredible response to Google Apps from [our] customer base," says CEO Jim Akerhielm. "We’re excited that Google Apps Sync helps our customers stop running Exchange and spend more time focusing on their core business." Netfirms, which powers 1.2m websites in the U.S. and Canada, is launching Google Apps to their customers in concert with Google Apps Sync. George Mitsopoulos, V.P. of DNA Mail (an IKANO company) says, "Google Apps Sync gives our customers even more options while minimizing our deployment effort. It's 'install, launch and you're ready to go."
To help you leverage this feature, and the recently launched Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, to sell Google Apps more effectively, we're holding webinars next week to accommodate our partners in various time zones. This will be the first in a series of Master Seller Webinars aimed at making our partners more successful. For those of you that can't attend, all Master Seller Webinars will be archived on the Solution Providers site so you can access them anytime.
We hope you will be able to join us next week to get live overviews and sales tips from our Product and Marketing Managers.
Webinar Details for North America
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Register
Webinar Details for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Thursday, June 18, 2009
3:00 pm BST, 4:00 pm CET
Register
Webinar Details for Asia and Asia Pacific
TBD - please check the Solution Providers site over the next few weeks for an update
Until then you can review the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook sales training presentation in the Marketing section of the Solution Providers site. This is the presentation that we will walk you through during the webinar at which time you can also ask questions. To see a demo of how the plug-in works, watch this 3 minute video.
Many businesses are interested in adopting Google Apps but they've been unable to make the transition because of some employees that do not want to give up the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface. Now with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, businesses can move forward deploying Google Apps, even if some users want to keep using Outlook. The plug-in enables employees to switch from Outlook to the Gmail interface at their own pace giving them their choice of interface, and IT departments their choice of email infrastructure.
Key features include:
- Email, calendar and contacts synchronization. For email, the plug-in uses the offline Gmail protocol, which is much faster than IMAP or other methods.
- Free/Busy lookup and Global Address List functionality, which makes it easy to schedule meetings with your colleagues, regardless of whether they use Outlook's calendar or Google Calendar.
- A simple, two-click data migration tool which allows employees to easily copy existing data from Exchange or Outlook into Google Apps.
Three key service providers - NuVox, Netfirms and IKANO - have already begun offering Google Apps Sync. NuVox, a leading telecom provider in the Southeast and Midwest, sees "an incredible response to Google Apps from [our] customer base," says CEO Jim Akerhielm. "We’re excited that Google Apps Sync helps our customers stop running Exchange and spend more time focusing on their core business." Netfirms, which powers 1.2m websites in the U.S. and Canada, is launching Google Apps to their customers in concert with Google Apps Sync. George Mitsopoulos, V.P. of DNA Mail (an IKANO company) says, "Google Apps Sync gives our customers even more options while minimizing our deployment effort. It's 'install, launch and you're ready to go."
To help you leverage this feature, and the recently launched Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, to sell Google Apps more effectively, we're holding webinars next week to accommodate our partners in various time zones. This will be the first in a series of Master Seller Webinars aimed at making our partners more successful. For those of you that can't attend, all Master Seller Webinars will be archived on the Solution Providers site so you can access them anytime.
We hope you will be able to join us next week to get live overviews and sales tips from our Product and Marketing Managers.
Webinar Details for North America
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT
Register
Webinar Details for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Thursday, June 18, 2009
3:00 pm BST, 4:00 pm CET
Register
Webinar Details for Asia and Asia Pacific
TBD - please check the Solution Providers site over the next few weeks for an update
Until then you can review the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook sales training presentation in the Marketing section of the Solution Providers site. This is the presentation that we will walk you through during the webinar at which time you can also ask questions. To see a demo of how the plug-in works, watch this 3 minute video.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Reflections on the Enterprise Track at Google I/O
The Enterprise team has just posted some reflections on the Enterprise Track at Google I/O on the Google Code Blog, so please take a moment to read up on all the great Enterprise sessions, announcements and events at Google I/O. We hope you enjoyed the conference as much as we did, and we're looking forward to seeing you there next year!
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