Google Apps News & Articles

EditGrid, a leader in online spreadsheets, today announced the launch of the iPhone Edition of its Web-based spreadsheets software. The news broke this morning at the Office. 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

Do enterprise architects really need to be reminded that they should “do their homework” before choosing an enterprise productivity, collaboration and content management application? When considering Google Apps as an enterprise-wide option, the surrounding fog of hype certainly seems to warrant a “yes”. And The Burton Group, a research and consulting firm, has just served the official version of it.

As the Google vs. Microsoft battle hits the road warrior, many are expecting the first major outbreak of the iPhone to be fired with Google Docs and Spreadsheets - which as of this week, works on Safari.

Just when you thought the knowledge management space could not possibly get anymore crowded, Egnyte bursts into the market with a hybrid storage/collaboration/content management solution.

Joining Zimbra, Zoho and a web based office suite from a little ole Google; ShareMethods is the latest player in the effort to move the office suite from the desktop to the web.

IBM recently announced plans to bring some nifty Google Gadgetry into their rather stodgy sounding commercial portal software. Free to WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express v6.0+ users, customers will now have the ability to create, customize and use Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Google Gadgets directly from within Portal framework.

You’ve heard the rumors. We reported on the speculation. Finally, Google has officially announced its paid application plan. For $50 per user per year, companies can outsource a significant portion, if not all, of their back end IT to the search behemoth.

It seems that hardly a day goes by without Google making some sort of progress in its Apps. The latest notable update is with the Toolbar version 3 (in beta). Beyond helpful browsing knickknacks, the toolbar now loads Microsoft Office documents directly into Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets application.

Big deal you say? Its not so much the “what” as it is the “how” that’s got our attention.

Google has taken a few more steps forwards with its burgeoning enterprise offering with two notable additions to its “Apps” suite. In typical Google fashion, the latest enhancements to Google Apps for Your Domain arrived with little fanfare — users simply noticed that they had an “Enterprise Start Page” in their options window and some new Google Page Creator tools at their finger tips.