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Google Discusses G Suite Roadmap at Google Cloud Summit Paris
Google set aside simmering tensions between it and the French government over tax and data privacy issues to talk up the potential of its G Suite productivity solution to a full house attending its Google Cloud Summit in Paris yesterday.
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Why Google Added a Virtual Coach to Its Productivity Apps
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google brought its A game to its suite of productivity and collaboration products when they were launched all those years ago. Google Apps and Google for Work are undeniably intuitive and easy to use. But as Google continued to build out this suite, improving on its own features and encouraging third-parties vendors
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Can't We Do Something About Paper?
Nearly 40 years after British-American information scientist Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster coined the term, the paperless office is still far from a reality. According to a new study by Epson Europe, 64 percent of the 3,600 European employees surveyed conceded they prefer to read reports and white papers on paper.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: ECM for Google Apps?
Tacoma, Wash.-based eDiscovery Squad has addressed an ongoing complaint about Google Apps and Google for Work with a new solution for managing content. It introducing a document management system that will manage this information as a strategic asset. The company is partnering with San Francisco-based AODocs to resell, support and
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Enterprise Adoption of O365 Jumps 300%
New research today from cloud security vendor Bitglass shows enterprise adoption of Microsoft Office 365 grew more than 300 percent in the past 12 months. About 25.2 percent of enterprises — up from 7.
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Office 365 Noses Ahead as Top Workplace App
The inaugural Businesses at Work report from mobility and identity management company Okta confirms what many have already claimed: that Office 365 is the granddaddy of all business enterprise apps. But that wasn’t always the case. Between Nov.
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Google vs. Microsoft: Which Cloud Productivity Platform Wins?
Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 are both cloud productivity platforms aimed at companies. But that's where the similarity ends, especially in terms of user demographics.
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How a CRM App is Helping Google Best Microsoft 365
Google has been incrementally making its workplace products more and more functional — all, it seems, with one goal in mind. It would like to eat Microsoft Office 365's lunch. When it first launched Google Apps (now called Google for Work), the best feature was the cost.
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Did Google Spill Your Domain Data All Over the Internet?
Live by exposure, die by exposure. It’s a hard lesson — and Google may have just learned it. According to Cisco security researchers, Google has inadvertently leaked the personal details and data of more than 282,000 domains registered through the company's Google Apps for Work service.
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Google for Work Puts Security in the Hands of Employees
Microsoft may be making a lot of noise about additional security features in Office 365, but Google has been working away behind the scenes too, if perhaps in a less vocal way. Yesterday, it launched the Devices and Activity dashboard, which monitors Google accounts on enterprise devices.
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Office 365 Dominance Grows with New Markets
Microsoft is releasing Office 365 into another nine countries, bringing its total market penetration to 140 of 196 countries worldwide. The fact that you can now get Office 365 just about anywhere there is a business culture is not surprising. But the pace at which it has developed is startling.
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Microsoft Sweetens Office 365 Collaboration Options
Think collaboration and you think Google. Maybe. Or Box or Dropbox. You don’t think Office 365 really, even though its enterprise collaboration abilities have greatly improved in the past two years. However, that could change. Microsoft has just made it a lot easier to collaborate using Outlook Web App (OWA).
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Google Counters Office 365 Price Cuts With New Partnership
Google has responded to Microsoft's price cuts of Office 365 for SMBs by launching a new partnership with Rackspace. Rackspace is offering US customers fully managed IT services for the Google Apps for Work suite, which includes Gmail, Drive and Hangouts.
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Microsoft Makes Office 365 Cheap Enough That You Can Ignore Google
Keeping a schedule set at its Worldwide Partner Conference in July, Microsoft has finally released service plans that will make it cheaper for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use Office 365. There is a small sting in the program, which went into effect last week.
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