Jan212016 by adminNo Comments

Microsoft SharePoint vs Google Docssites

Google Apps for work, Home Page, SharePoint
I recently fielded a question from a potential client who wanted to know if Microsoft SharePoint or Google Docs with Google Sites was a better fit for their organization's document management and collaboration needs. Although this question is pretty straight-forward, the explanation can get a bit complicated. The short answer is Google Docs/Sites is great tool if you do not have an enterprise collaboration platform at your disposal, and you need to to get a document sharing site up quickly. However, Google Docs/Sites falls way short in providing the breadth and depth of features that Microsoft SharePoint offers. SharePoint is a true enterprise platform with capabilities that extend beyond document management and collaboration (e.g. Search, Workflow, and KPI Dashboards. If you have a dozen or more computer users in your…
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Nov112015 by adminNo Comments

How to Make Microsoft Office Desktop Software Work Seamlessly With Google Drive

Google Apps for work, Home Page
Last December, we shared how Google was making its productivity suite, Google Apps for Work, work “friendlier” with Microsoft Office files. Earlier this week, Google announced what seems a surprising next step in its Microsoft Office embrace: a new plugin for Google Chrome (Windows version only) that enables Google Drive to work seamlessly with Microsoft Office software. Using the new Google Drive Chrome plug-in, people using Office for Windows are able to open their Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents stored in Drive, then save any changes back to Drive once they are done. The move supports Google’s focus on making Google Drive more competitive to Cloud storage leaders like DropBox at the price of weakening its head-to-head competition with Microsoft Office. How it works If you’re working on a Word document, Excel spreadsheet or…
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Nov92015 by adminNo Comments

Why companies are switching from Google Apps to Office 365

Google Apps for work, Home Page, O365
Microsoft’s increasingly strong Office 365 performance is coming partly at the expense of Google Apps. Motorola’s recent decision to move from an elderly version of Office to Google’s cloud service bucks the more common trend of companies who have been using Google Apps switching to Office 365. It’s not just Microsoft saying that Office 365 is growing (COO Kevin Turner claims that four out of five Fortune 500 companies use the service). Last year, cloud security company Bitglass said traffic analysis gave Google twice the market share of Office 365 among its customers, with 16.3 percent of the market; that went up to 22.8 percent this year as more companies switched to cloud services. However, over the same year, Office 365 grew far faster, from 7.7 percent to 25.2 percent.…
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Nov62015 by adminNo Comments

Google Apps for Work. Powertools, Advanced Document Management

Google Apps for work, Home Page
November 03, 2015 10:30 ET Powertools, Advanced Document Management Integrated With Google Drive, Is Now 'Recommended for Google Apps for Work' Millions of Google Apps for Work Users Now Have Access to an Easy-to-Use Document Management System, Fully Integrated With Google Drive, That Delivers Powerful Features That Boost Productivity and Require Zero IT Expertise to Configure and Manage SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 3, 2015) - Designed4Work, innovator of advanced productivity tools for Google Apps for Work, announced that Powertools, the document management and workflow technology for Google Drive™, has been inducted into the 'Recommended for Google Apps for Work' program that showcases innovative technologies for users of Google Apps for Work. The announcement was made today by Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, at the Web Summit in…
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