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10 Reasons Why Google Won’t Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration

June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

The worldwide launch of Microsoft Office 2010 June 15, with the complementary Office Web Apps, rekindled the discussion of whether Microsoft would be a successful challenger to Google in the software market for cloud collaboration applications. Google has racked up more than 30 million Google Apps users, a chunk of which are using it in 2 million businesses, with an even smaller portion paying $50 per user, per year. While Google’s momentum remains strong for Apps, some cracks in the armor have shown themselves of late. Here are 10 reasons why Google won’t beat Microsoft in collaboration. – …


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Google to Push Google Voice, Google Wave to Businesses

February 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company’s real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
– Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the company will release a
version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who
want it and deliver as many as 200 small features to Google Apps in 2010.

Google Apps is a suite of Web-based collaboration applications Goog…


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Google Ad Campaign Champions Google Apps

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Going Google is a new advertising and marketing campaign the search engine giant is using to tout its messaging and collaboration enterprise applications as alternatives to on-premise software from Microsoft and IBM. Google wants more customers to adopt its cloud computing approach, particularly as Microsoft readies its Office Web suite to counter Google Apps. IBM has also show an interest in moving to the cloud with IBM Lotus Live.
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One of the points people user to argue Google Apps is not
viable in businesses is that the company doesn’t do anything to market the
collaboration applications as alternatives to on-premise software from rivals
such as Microsoft and IBM.
It’s a hard argument to refute. While Micro…


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Google Ad Campaign Champions Google Apps

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Going Google is a new advertising and marketing campaign the search engine giant is using to tout its messaging and collaboration enterprise applications as alternatives to on-premises software from Microsoft and IBM. Google wants more customers to adopt its cloud computing approach, particularly as Microsoft readies its Office Web suite to counter Google Apps. IBM has also shown an interest in moving to the cloud with IBM Lotus Live.
– One of the points people use to argue that Google Apps is not viable in
businesses is that the company doesn’t do anything to market the collaboration
applications as alternatives to on-premises software from rivals such as
Microsoft and IBM.
It’s a hard argument to refute. While Microsoft thro…


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