Migrating from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps: a business perspective
Every month, we invite a featured customer to talk about their experience bringing Google Apps into their businesses, sharing insights and suggestions for other teams looking to bring Apps into the workplace. We invite you to join this conversation sin…
Introducing better email lists for Google Apps
We’ve heard quite a few requests for email list enhancements, so we know our users will be happy to hear that several new administrative features for email lists are available today.First, administrators can now assign permissions per email list that d…
Folders and labels: the best of both worlds
New Google Apps users quickly notice that Gmail uses labels instead of traditional folders for organizing email. Why this design decision? Put simply, you can organize and then find messages more efficiently with labels.Here’s why: a message can be tag…
The big news at the Googleplex today is the latest release of Google Earth, making features like Ocean, Historical Imagery, and Touring available to Google Earth users everywhere.We’re happy to open up these new worlds of exploration to our Enterprise …
The 80’s cartoon Lion Force Voltron featured a team of five pilots commanding five robot lions, which could be combined together to form Voltron, a powerful do-gooder whose whole was greater than the sum of his parts. At the Cloud Connect event last w…
With each passing day, the moments when I’m disconnected from the Internet become fewer and fewer. For me, one of the last meaningful barriers began to fall with American Airlines’ announcement last year that they would be offering in-flight wi-fi serv…
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Steve Sullivan, Manager of Web Development at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) as our guest blogger today. IHG uses Google Maps API Premier across its global network of branded sites to offer their customers a…
SADA Systems, Inc. uses Google Sites to create its public website
Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome SADA Systems, Inc. to this blog to talk about how they used Google sites to create and maintain their homepage, www.sadasystems.com. SADA is a Google Apps Authorized reseller and – as experts in mail migration,…
Designing the search you’ve been looking for
Search is at the heart of Google – that’s why it’s at the heart of our homepage. When you set up Google Site Search on your website, you have the flexibility to plug in a search box however and wherever you want. Whether you opt to put search in …
"Why I sleep better at night with Google Apps," by Camille Wehs, IT Director, City of Canton, GA
Note: We are pleased to welcome Camille Wehs, IT director for the City of Canton, GA, as our guest blogger today. The City of Canton recently selected Google Apps Premier Edition for its messaging and collaboration needs, saving more than $10,000 and u…
Students and others find what they’re looking for with Google Search
When you think about all that a university has to offer, you probably think of classes, curriculum, and alumni activities. But universities have much more to share. In fact, they provide information to a surprising number of communities – current and…
Channeling the Cloud: Announcing the Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program
We shared some big news today on the Official Google Blog, Google Enterprise has launched another way of bringing Google Apps to business users around the world through a new Authorized Reseller program focused on partners and the services and soluti…
Serving businesses better with Google Apps
Today we’re making a change to better align the versions of Google Apps with the interests of business customers and resellers. Starting today, Standard Edition will support a maximum of 50 users for new customers. Existing Standard Edition customers w…
Putting the "App" in "H-App-y New Year"
Here at Google, we like to have some fun, at least some of the time (we hope it’s the same for your business, too). A few days back, we sparked a bit of interoffice fun by virtually “bouncing” Google Apps from person to person as a New Year’s greeting….
Google Earth: now you CAN take it with you
When Lionel Barrymore (“Grandpa Martin Vanderhof”) told Jimmy Stewart (“Tony Kirby”) “You Can’t Take it With You,” he clearly wasn’t talking about Google Earth Enterprise. Starting immediately, you can take Google Earth Enterprise with you, thanks to a…