Google Apps
Simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for businesses
The Google Apps solution is the most feature rich, enterprise class email and collaboration platform built for the cloud. It is always available, on any web browser enabled device, bringing a new level of mobility to your workforce.
Google Apps for Business is a complete subscription to a rapid innovation curve, at utility prices. In 2007, the initial
subscribers paid £33/user per year and received a 10GB mailbox per user, calendar and Google Docs. For the same price today they receive a 25GB mailbox and more than 30 individual applications, including video, instant messaging, VoIP, group mailing lists, collaboration sites, migration tools, BlackBerry integration and much more.
Increase productivity while reducing costs – safe in the knowledge your data is hosted by Google on secure, reliable infrastructure.
What does Google Apps offer?
 | Gmail – the famous web-based email service. With Google Apps, administrators can create customised email accounts like user@mycompany.com instead of user@gmail.com, offering 25GB mailboxes for all. |
 | Google Calendar – create individual, group and resource calendars to help users organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. |
 | Google Message Security – an industry-leading service for filtering incoming spam and malware used to stop the flow of spam, virus and other email threats. It includes enhanced virus detection, outbound processing, and content policy management specifically for companies worried about growing external security threats and internal risks, such as email data leaks or content compliance violations. |
 | Google Message Discovery – this additional service component of Google Message Security provides up to 10 years of message data archiving, immutable retention, and discovery for legal compliance, aimed at companies seeking to reduce security exposure, and improve legal discovery readiness and message compliance. |
 | Google Groups – a versatile group mailing list which allows users shared access to conversations and searchable group archives, but with sophisticated controls and permissions provide for many different enterprise scenarios. |
 | Google Sites – an application that makes creating a web site or portal as easy as editing a document. Google Sites lets people quickly gather a variety of information in one place – including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text – and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world. It provides a familiar portal interface, allowing your users to configure and select gadgets that suit them. |
 | Google Talk – an instant messaging application providing presence, status and real-time communication features including voice and video chat from the browser. |
 | Google Video – share more information in less time, and make company content like trainings and executive communications more personal, visual, and engaging. Google Video reuses Google’s massively distributed video distribution technology essentially giving you your own private YouTube, allowing you to embed content into existing intranet solutions. |
 | Google Docs – users have the ability to create, edit and share all types of documents, presentations and spreadsheets, collaborating them in real time, storing them in one place on the web. |
  | Device & Mobility Capabilities – Google Apps is designed as agnostic of the operating system, computer or device you’re using and its system requirements are quite minimal. You just need a browser on your computer and an internet connection. It works with all the standard browsers you’d expect, like Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer and of course Google Chrome.Apps supports a full range of synchronization and push services across a wide spectrum of mobile devices, so users can benefit from mobile access, while administrators can apply policy controls and remote wipe lost devices. Today we support Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Nokia S60 phones, many with additional free applications to take even advantage Google Apps beyond email, contacts and calendaring integration. |
How can Stoneburn help?
Stoneburn completed the largest UK Google Apps deployment in 2010 for GeoPost, the second largest postal operation in Europe. In 2011, we’re engaged in migrations totalling over 50,000 users.
A migration to Google Apps is much more than just moving mailboxes! Our phased approach, based on Google’s best practice, involves analysis, consultation, solution design, planning, configuration, training (business and technical), project management, change management, testing, deployment and support. Our trained and certified Google Apps experts will ensure your migration runs successfully.
Small and medium teams
For companies with up to 500 users, we offer a menu of fixed price packages for deployments. We run a workshop to cover off the technical details, and then our team will handle the migration for you. You can pick from a number of training and support options that best fits your needs. Call us today!
Large teams
For larger companies — we deal with anywhere from 500 to over 100,000 employees — we know that change needs to be handled with white gloves. We can get involved right from the “business case” stage and do everything related to a Google Apps migration, including providing continuing support afterwards.
Moving to Google Apps is a great way to improve employee satisfaction in IT systems, reduce costs, and improve the lives (and careers!) of your messaging administrators. Get in touch with us to start your journey!
Android development
Google Apps goes great with Android – and once your workforce has a smart mobile device in their pocket, the sky is the limit. Stoneburn’s developers can build custom applications for the Android platform.
To find out more about Google Apps, contact us today!