Google Apps Premier

Google Apps Premier offers is an affordable and competitive alternative to Microsofts Office package. With this solution there is no need to buy a mailserver and a bundle of officepackages. The solution is hosted on Google's servers and is delivered and supported from IT Security and Compliance. The Google Apps Premier contains the following products:

- Gmail: Is Google's hosted emailsolution which can be branded to the individual company. For example if a company is called MyCompany Inc. and the company owns the domain mycompany.com a mailadress could be joe@mycompany.co. Gmail works both online and offline and also works together with Microsoft Outlook.

- Spreadsheet: Is a spreedsheet that allows online collaboration in realtime, which means that numerous people can work on the same spreadsheet at the same time. The spreedsheets contains different math functions and is similar to Microsoft Excel.

- Documents: Is text documents that allows online collaboration in realtime, which means that numerous people can work on the same document at the same time. The document contains text functions and is similar to Microsoft Word.

IT Security & Compliance helps you get started and provides you with qualified support to help you get the best possible use out of the products.

Proven cost savings

Google's web-based messaging and collaboration apps require no hardware or software and need minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses

Forrester concluded that Google Apps can help companies save 50-70% compared to other email solutions. Download the independent report (Jan. 2009).

Easy to use

End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to Gmail and Google Calendar.

99.9% uptime reliability guarantee

We guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime.

The Radicati Group found that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month. Read more

50 times more storage than the industry average

Each employee gets 25 GB for email storage, so they can keep important messages and find them instantly with built-in Google search.

Gmail is designed so employees can spend less time managing their inboxes, and more time being productive. Time-saving features like message threading, message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help employees work efficiently with high volumes of email.

Mobile email, calendar and IM access

With several options for accessing their information while on the go, employees can be productive with Google Apps even when they're not at their desks.

At no extra charge, Google Apps supports over-the-air mobile access on BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and many less powerful phones.

Information security and compliance

When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure.

Google's information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application and network security, are focused on keeping your information safe. Google and many other customers trust this system with highly sensitive corporate data.

Businesses get these customizable security features with Google Apps:

• Custom spam and inbound mail filtering tools, powered by Postini, to complement powerful spam filters that automatically work with no up-front configuration.
• Custom outbound mail filtering tools to prevent sensitive information from being distributed, powered by Postini.
• Custom information sharing rules to determine how broadly employees are allowed to share with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites.
• Custom password length requirements and visual strength indicators to help employees pick secure passwords.
• Enforced SSL connections with Google Apps to ensure secure HTTPS access.
• Optional email archiving, up to 10 years of retention.

Full administrative and data control

Administrators can deeply customize Google Apps to meet their technical, branding and business requirements.

Integration options let you connect Google Apps to your existing IT infrastructure.

• Single sign-on API connects Google Apps to your existing authentication system.
• User provisioning utility and API connect Google Apps to your existing user directory system.
• Email routing and email gateway support let you run Google Apps alongside an existing email solution.
• Email migration utility and API let you bring mail from your existing email solution into Google Apps.

System branding and data ownership give Google Apps your look and feel, and ensures customer ownership of employee data.

• Custom user accounts on your compay's internet domain.
• Custom logo and colors in the applications.
• Contractual customer ownership of employee data.

Helpful 24/7 customer support

Google Apps Premier is highly reliable and easy to operate, but support is available for administrators should you need it.

Support options include:

• Phone support for critical issues
• Email support
• Self-service online support