Google Apps go Offline!
May 4, 2008
Recently Google implemented an offline capability for Google Apps allowing you to edit and work on your Google Apps while not connected to the Internet. Now whether you are on an airplane or just disconnected, you can edit your documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
When you login to Google Docs you will see a new icon and Offline Settings link.
Google Docs uses Google Gears, a browser extension (available for OS X, Linux and Windows), to add offline functionality. Google Docs are accessed offline by clicking on the desktop shortcut that is downloaded during the installation process.
Adding Google Hosted Mail to Exchange
April 21, 2008
Upon initial read of Cemaphore Systems announcement of their beta release of MailShadowG (MailShadow For Google Apps) I kept scratching my head and wondering what! After further thought and some lively discussions with my colleagues I think I actually see some real value in the MailShadowG product.
To understand where the value is, one needs to grasp what is being offered through the MailShadowG product…. Read more
News Or Not?
April 7, 2008
To stay current with news about Google Apps I have subscribed to Google Alerts. Google Alerts monitors the Internet for news about Google Apps (or any other subject one wants to be alerted about). I started the Google Alert subscription on March 14, 2008. I have been diligent about monitoring and reading the alerts. To date I have received a total of 109 alerts. I have read every alert email message and followed most of the alert links to the source articles. While I have been alerted to some news, mostly I have been underwhelmed with news that is not news. The real news is most people and organizations writing about Google Apps don’t really know or understand anything about Google Apps. Let me explain….
POSTINI & Google Apps
March 15, 2008
POSTINI is the premier hosted email security and compliance solution. POSTINI was acquired by Google and has subsequently been integrated into the suite of solutions available within the Google Apps offering. What exactly does that mean to any organization that uses the Google Apps products? It means that enterprise grade email tools like spam filtering, virus filtering, trojan filtering, and sophisticated email compliance and archiving tools are available for Google Hosted Mail.
LAW.com Talks About Google Apps
March 13, 2008
Law.com has an interesting article covering the use of Internet based software, think Google Apps, as well as a great explanation of why we believe businesses should be thinking of moving their IT infrastructure to the Internet. As the article says,
“…envision a reality where your IT infrastructure actually grows smaller and easier to manage; where you can have the latest, greatest technology — without the cost or complexity of on-premise systems.”
Hosted Google Mail News
March 10, 2008
There is a great article about “Cloud Computing” (what we call the Internet as your computer) posted on the Financial Post website. While the article covers a number of stories of how organizations are using Internet based services and or applications to achieve better IT solutions with less cost, we were particularly impressed with the $60K saved by a small Canadian company that switched to Google Hosted Email. Read more
Sunday Summary of Google News
March 9, 2008
Here is our read of the NEWS about Google Apps. (With our comments of course!) Take the time to browse through the list of articles as well as read our comments.
MS Exchange vs. Google Hosted Email
March 8, 2008
Your IT people hate us! Moving away from Exchange is a direct threat to their entrenched job security. That is one reason you likely have not or will not hear your IT team suggest moving your email infrastructure to Google.
Vision Without Converts
February 29, 2008
While studying philosophy and religion in college, I remember a very bright and incredibly relevant Jesuit telling the class that,”the only thing separating religion from vision is converts.” Religion has converts and a vision without converts is nothing more than a rant!
Perhaps we at OMBNexgen are converts; we have moved our IT infrastructure to the web. Our mission and objective is not simply a vision for us, it is our religion too. We converted and we are religious about using the Internet as our computer! I am guessing that there is a large community of people who don’t realize that they are converts too!
Let’s point out the ways you too are already using the Internet as your computer.
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Who’s Moving To Google Mail?
February 28, 2008
Every so often we get asked, “Who is moving their email to Googles hosted services?” Located on the right is a featured video of the Chief Information Technology Officer for ASU talking about their efforts to move all of their email services to Google Apps Hosted EMail. The complete and full article of ASU’s story can be found here. ASU’s announcement was as follows,
“Oct. 10, 2006 Arizona State University (ASU) makes Google Apps Education Edition available to 65,000 students. ASU configured and deployed Google Apps for Education, Google’s hosted email, IM and calendaring solution, in under two weeks, including integrating it with home-grown single sign-on and user provisioning systems.”
What is particularly interesting Read more
