Large businesses face many challenges that Google Apps can help to address - from working across time-zones in different languages, to enabling collaboration and fostering innovation across a large, dispersed organisation.

Just some of the benefits Google Apps can bring to your organisation are:

• Drive business transformation - enable global experts both inside and outside of your organisation to easily share ideas and work on new projects that deliver competitive advantage
• Improved collaboration between employees, through simple information sharing tools like Google Docs and Sites with real-time collaboration, leading to more rapid innovation
• Communication tools for any situation with integrated email, calendar, instant messaging, voice and video chat. Integrated Google translate helps your employees work across languages
• Universal access anytime, anywhere - whether on a mobile device, laptop, or computer in a multi-OS environment (PC, Mac, Linux). Google Apps can empower your employees no matter where and how they work
• Boost employee productivity - capabilities such as Google priority inbox helps to overcome information overload by automatically prioritising the most important emails

And all at just 1/3 of the cost of on-premise solutions*.

Google Apps allows your employees to effectively work together in real-time on shared documents and sites. This enables collaboration, making your employees more productive and helps to foster innovation.

With Google Apps your employees can:

• Access their content anywhere, anytime - laptop, desktop, home, work, mobile, online, offline etc
• Work together on Google Docs in real-time without the hassle of multiple versions or attachments
• Easily create team or project sites without the need for IT support, improving information sharing within your business
• Have complete control - each piece of content can be as private or public as necessary

“Google Apps offers so many ways of helping us to organise our information more efficiently. Google Docs has enabled us to collaborate more effectively within the organisation, and been especially welcomed by our international project teams.”
Andrew Jordan, CIO, Complinet
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Traditional business email and collaboration tools can be costly to purchase, set-up and maintain.

With Google Apps everything is hosted online, which means your business doesn't require additional hardware or software. Using Google Apps minimises the need for maintenance and upgrades, as this is all managed by Google, which reduces your IT costs even further.

“We have so far saved the cost of two full-time employees (around £50,000) and between £60,000 and £100,000 in licence fees.”
—Ed Laccohee, Director, Controlled Projects
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A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.

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You have complete control of the applications your employees use and the Google Apps Marketplace and App Engine provide even more opportunity to expand the applications for use in your business.

Google Apps Marketplace
The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google Apps users. Seamlessly integrate 3rd party applications for your business all through Google's infrastructure which includes single sign-on, Google's universal navigation and some even include features that integrate with your domain's data.

Google App Engine for Business
App Engine for Business enables you to build and run your company's internal web apps on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, with added features and support designed specifically for the enterprise.

Google Apps is designed to provide you with a secure and reliable platform for your data, bringing you the latest technologies and industry best practices for datacentre management, network application security, and data integrity.

Secure
Security is at the core of Google's DNA, with a dedicated security team maintaining one of the largest networks of distributed data-centres in the world. Google's security practices are made up of three main components:

• People: Google employees a full-time information security team including some of the world's foremost experts in information, application and network security
• Process: Each application is built from the ground up with security in mind and go through numerous security reviews. External security audits are also regularly conducted to provide additional assurance
• Technology: Google Apps data is fractured and obfuscated across multiple servers and disks, making it human-unreadable. Data is replicated in multiple data centres for redundancy and consistent availability

Learn more about Google Apps security
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“With Google Apps, everybody is running the same copy because it all comes from a central server. That's a more secure and a more powerful way to run your business.”
Marc Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce.com
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Reliable
Google Apps is powered by the infrastructure that serves hundreds of millions of users daily. Google Apps has a 99.9% guaranteed uptime SLA*, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime. Multi-homed application architecture prevents scheduled downtime and automatic disaster recovery means you can be assured your data is accessible when you need it. Research has shown Google Apps has 10x better uptime than Microsoft® Exchange. Read the independent research.

* The 99.9% uptime SLA for Google Apps is offered to organisations using Google Apps for Business, as described in the Google Apps for Business Terms of Service.

Google Apps has migration tools to help make the switch to Google Apps simple.

Technical deployment
Google Apps has migration tools for Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Notes to make it easy to migrate your email, calendar and contacts to Google Apps. There are also numerous ways to integrate Google Apps with your current infrastructure - contact us to discuss your technical needs.

Employee change
Your employees are likely to be using consumer products like Gmail already and so the change is likely to cause few employee issues.

However, there are always going to be employees for which the switch is more difficult and so we provide change management tools to help you with this process. In addition Google Apps sync for Microsoft® Outlook means users who are more reticent to switch can use the Microsoft® Outlook interface while you run on Google Apps.
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“The migration to Google Apps was very simple and painless, and that's exactly what we were hoping for.”
—Shawn Faulkingham, Director of IT, Indoff, Inc.
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Sign-up to Google Apps today and you'll get a FREE 30 day trial

You can cancel this trial at anytime within the 30 day period without charge - it gives you a chance to try out the products and understand how they will work for your business.

During set-up of the trial you'll be asked for your credit card information, though your credit card won't be charged until after your free 30 day trial.

When you're all set-up you'll be able to administer Google Apps from an easy to use, intuitive control panel which will give you complete control over your account, so you can customise the way you use Google Apps to meet your business needs.

And don't forget, once you're up and running you'll benefit from 24/7 support from Google - just contact us through the link in your administrator control panel.

Ready to begin? Sign-up for the free 30 day trial now.