Google Apps
“Software-as-a-service for business email, information sharing and security.”
I cannot hope to give you all the details about Google Apps here. To learn more about Google Apps please see: google.com/appsatwork.
Google Apps can provide you a low-cost alternative to on-site or hosted email and other software and services. There's Standard Edition (free for up to 50 users) and Premier Edition which is based on a license-per-user cost (currently £33 per user per year). Both editions are suitable for use by businesses.
Premier Edition obviously offers a number of additional features, such as 99.9% uptime guarantee, larger mailboxes, mail backup, admin mail filters etc. However, Standard Edition has all of the basic features that most businesses need, and offers an interesting alternative to the traditional solutions to email and office software offered in the past.
The main objection raised to using services like Google Apps is from those who dislike the idea of 'Cloud Computing'. If you would like to discuss this further after reading the information in the links above please get in touch.
If you've already decided that you would like to implement Google Apps (Standard or Premier Edition) in your business, I can register and configure it for you. The cost of installation will depend on:
- your existing systems, software and configuration
- how much work you want me to do on this for you (e.g. migrating old email)
- the number of users accounts you need.
As a “rule-of-thumb” an average cost would be approx £30 per user.
