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• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 3

  By James Hutchinson | 30 March, 2011 07:00

  The shortfalls of Google Apps will likely resonate with the inordinate amount of Microsoft shops in the industry. Years of investment in SharePoint developers, Exchange support teams and business processes built around the fickle aspects of Microsoft Office and its ribbon interface cannot be discarded easily. That’s ultimately where Microsoft’s strength is likely to reside. No matter when its Office 365 bundle is released, and despite numerous attempts to forge links between legacy applications and Google Apps, the complexity of a migration for a large organisation would likely be a headache most CIOs are eager to avoid. At least, that can be said for Coca Cola Amatil CIO, Barry Simpson.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 2

  By James Hutchinson | 29 March, 2011 07:00

  Ultimately, some of the problems facing Microsoft’s Cloud strategy are those affecting many of its long-standing product suites. “Clearly Microsoft is trying to back-solve that problem to the legacy product set and clearly that’s problematic,” AAPT’s chief operating officer and effective CIO, David Yuile, says.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 1

  By James Hutchinson | 28 March, 2011 07:00

  IT behemoths, Microsoft and Google, have for years been embroiled in battles over who would control the move by different industries to the Cloud. Since at least 2007, Australian universities and education authorities eager to outsource their email have turned to either provider in lieu of limited competition from the market. For the next battle, however, the stakes are higher. Both Google and Microsoft are betting all of their chips on a sector that is likely to prove much more lucrative than any before it: Enterprise.

• Going Google

  By Darren Horrigan | 03 September, 2010 08:41

  It is 8pm midweek and three senior executives at Altium are working on a document they need first thing the next day — a presentation to staff about behavioural change. The program manager is editing text; the company president is asking questions about the program; and CIO, Alan Perkins, is answering his president’s questions.

• Rentokil Initial puts email in order with Google Apps deal

  By Rhys Lewis | 13 October, 2009 10:08

  Rentokil Initial has signed the biggest enterprise Google Apps Premier Edition deal yet, adopting the internet services giants' SaaS offering as the standard email platform across its six operating divisions.

• Office Web apps have edge over Google Apps, says analyst

  By Shane O'Neill | 17 July, 2009 03:18

  Microsoft may have had its hand forced by Web-based alternatives, but the software giant will deliver a free Web version of Office, called Office Web Apps, that will launch in tandem with the paid, desktop version of Office 2010, which is in technical preview now and due to launch in the first half of next year.

• Does Google know too much about you?

  By Ian Paul | 11 July, 2009 05:22

  Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonderful company with a broad selection of useful online tools that make life easier, but for others Google is a looming, unregulated monster just waiting for the moment to drop the 'don't' from the company's unofficial motto, "Don't be evil."

• Google Apps Premier Edition Gets Key Improvements

  By C.G. Lynch | 08 July, 2009 01:53

  In its ongoing efforts to make its software more appealing to enterprises, Google took some key steps today, starting with removing the "beta" label today from some of its core applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs and Talk. That longstanding beta tag had sometimes affected business buyers' decision whether or not to buy the Google Apps product, industry analysts say.

• Labs for Google Apps: Will Enterprises Try New Features?

  By C.G. Lynch | 03 November, 2008 12:09

  In what analysts describe as a risky strategy, Google last week revealed experimental new features being developed for its Google Apps software, inviting customers to try them. Whether or not enterprises can be convinced to experiment with the software remains to be seen.

• Washington uses Google Apps to power new intranet

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 15 October, 2008 07:38

  When it came time for Washington, D.C., to create a new intranet for city employees, spending US$4 million on a site based on proprietary portal software just didn't seem like a good idea to CTO Vivek Kundra. But using Google Apps did, he said in an interview Tuesday.

• Google App Engine: Getting Data Out Ain't Simple. Yet.

  By Esther Schindler | 05 September, 2008 11:28

  Developers who adopt the Google App Engine for their cloud computing platform today may fear data lock-in, since the only way to import or export data is using a Python-based API. Google is working on a tool to improve data exchange to improve data portability.