“Larger enterprises, however, face a challenge: though they want to deliver simple, useful hosted applications to their employees, they’re also required to support complex business rules, information security mandates, and an array of legal and corporate compliance issues.”
I do not prefer Google Apps for small business organizations if their email and other applications are business confidential (e.g., docs, sheets, calendar & IM). Especially, if they are dealing with intellectual properties, mega deals with government agencies, doing patents related work etc..Following are my five key reasons why those companies never prefer Google Apps.
Trust - Companies are not comfortable with storing confidential documents on Google Public Server.
Wireless Email Service - No Push mail Support for PDA users.
Appliance - Google Apps does not have appliance concept. Appliance concept will be good to attract companies who does not have any trust in Google’s Public Server.
Support - Support is not based on any SLA (Service Level Agreement). Use it on your own risk
Interoperable - No proper interoperability with other commercial application and no guarantee that it will exist tomorrow.
There are very many other things that Microsoft office does better than Google Apps. We haven’t heard that enterprises are using it with confidence except testing and long term piloting here and there. If you are more keen to see the demo of Google Apps, here you go:
The fundamental idea of Grand Central is “Have one phone number for all your phones, for life.” Generally, when you change jobs, homes, relocate to new cities and change cell phones, you will need to let others know your recent phone numbers and it cost in many ways.
So the Grand Central comes into this picture to solve your problems whereby you can provide a single phone number and let rules handle all your phone numbers. In other words, whenever a person calls your “one number”, the call will reach based on the person’s relationship you set in the rules and the your “presence” at that point in time. There are so many other features they are offering, check this here.
I guess the following demo gives a better picture of understanding how Grand Central service works, click below on the YouTube from the founders Craig & Vincent
Sounds cool..! Great innovation..and no wonder why Google behinds this most exciting startup. You can count on Google as they begin to integrate Grand Central with Gmail & GTalk. Eventually, Google presence in small business sector will get strengthen to next level.
After all, this innovation will simplify the users life by having a single phone number and handle the calls based on the rules.
