The document summarizes Google Apps, a suite of cloud-based productivity applications. It notes that business challenges involve information overload, the need for increased collaboration with distributed teams, and the need to access information from anywhere. Google Apps provides tools like Gmail, Talk, Groups, Calendar, and Docs to help with messaging, collaboration and technology challenges. Using these applications provides productivity benefits like access from any device and easier collaboration. It also claims benefits like more reliability and security due to Google's infrastructure and expertise, as well as dramatically lower costs compared to on-premise alternatives.

1. Google Apps

2. Business challenges are changing
Information overload
• Volume of information is increasing radically
• Sort, file, and find is a broken paradigm
Collaboration is central
• Work with global, distributed teams
• Connect with external partners
Access anywhere
• Proliferation of smart phones
• Struggles with VPNs

3. Messaging challenges

4. Collaboration challenges

5. Technology challenges

6. Google Apps: tools for today's user
Gmail Huge inbox with search: keep and find everything.
Talk Business class IM and VC as easy as email.
Groups Let users easily create and work in teams.
Calendar Make sharing calendars and schedules easy.
Docs Makes collaborating as easy as creating
Sites Allow users to manage their own sites.

7. Built on the cloud computing model

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9. Productivity with Google Apps
• Gmail works on any computer or mobile
• All applications on the cloud so instead of
installing patches, changing passwords and
fending off viruses.
• Employees at your company could
communicate 36 % more with integrated e-
mail, IM, Voice and video chat.
Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.

10. More reliable and secure
Purpose-built infrastructure Better uptime than on-premise
• Hundreds of thousands of
identical servers
• Custom, hardened Linux OS
• Can rapidly update all systems
• No third-party security issues
World Class Security
• Industry-leading experts
• Obfuscation of data at rest
• Security reviews for all code
SAS 70 Type II certification
Downtime per month (in minutes)
FISMA certification (in progress)
Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.

11. Dramatically lower costs
Source: Microsoft Online Services Business Value White Paper (Microsoft, 2009)
Source: Should Your Email Live In The Cloud?’ (Ted Schadler, Forrester, 2009)

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