November 17th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Nearly two years ago, we launched Google Sites to make it easier, faster and more affordable for employees to create and collaborate in rich, dynamic sites, even without any technical background. We’re seeing companies large and small gravitate to Go…
November 10th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
It’s not often in life that we can get more for less. But that’s just what cloud computing is offering cash-strapped governments across the country: an opportunity to upgrade their dated infrastructure to state of the art, and save money in the proce…
November 10th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Editor’s Note: Please welcome our guest blogger, James Ferreira, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the New Mexico Attorney General. He provides IT services to the largest law office in the state. James Ferreira has the privilege of serving th…
November 5th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
As we approach the holidays, retailers are gearing up for the seasonal shopping traffic. While they can’t, of course, control overall consumer spending, they can control the experience they provide to consumers – both in their brick-and-mortar stores…
November 3rd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
In July we announced that the Google OpenID Federated Login API has been extended to Google Apps accounts used by businesses, schools, and other organizations. The service is important not only to individuals, who can now use their single Google Apps A…
October 26th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Benjamin Doyle, Information Systems Administrator for Alta Planning + Design, a company that combines the skills of planning, design, landscape architecture and engineering to create bicycle, pedestrian, greenway…
October 26th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Earlier this year, we announced support for Rich Snippets in Google Site Search results. If you provide in-page metadata markup via RDFa, Microformats, or PageMaps, Google Site Search extracts the metadata and returns it as PageMaps in your XML results…
October 20th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
When we launched Google Search Appliance 6.0 in June we introduced a brand new architecture, (GSA)n. The GSA now lets organizations search over a billion documents, and we are constantly looking to develop on (GSA)n even further. In that vein, our engi…
October 20th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to welcome guest blogger Peter Herrmann, solution architect, Information Technology Department, at Mortgage Choice Limited. Peter led the development of the business case to switch Mortgage Choice to Google, and is project…
October 19th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
In August, we asked you share your your stories about why you or your company decided to “go Google” – in another words, switch to Google Apps or any of our other enterprise services. We were excited to see your tweets about going Google, feedback ab…
October 19th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
If you are actively considering Google Apps as part of your next-generation messaging strategy or just starting to learn more about cloud computing, you – and your boss – no doubt have questions about the technical details of moving into the cloud….
October 15th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
September was a big month for Google Apps Education Edition as everyone headed back to school. When we announced five million active users in early September, we didn’t expect that it would only be about a month before we would announce that more than …
October 12th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Teams of coworkers often work on projects involving dozens – sometimes hundreds – of files, like documents, spreadsheets and presentations. As new materials are created and as teams grow and evolve, making sure the right people have access to the l…
October 8th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Last month, we announced that over 5 million students were actively using Google Apps Education Edition. Today, we’re pleased to note that several noteworthy universities in the UK have joined this growing movement by announcing plans to deploy Google …
October 8th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Google recently sponsored a global, multi-industry research project surveying 1,125 IT decision-makers and their perceptions about cloud computing and the key drivers behind the growth of cloud-based IT solutions.We’re sharing the results of the study …