On our Partner pages you can read and learn about the Partners we are working with to assist us in delivering the absolute best technical solution for your organization. What is particularly interesting and fun in today’s environment is the number of new Internet solutions becoming available virtually every day. We actively and diligently monitor, test, and participate in all of the new solutions popping up every day. It is a continuation of our IT heritage of being true generalists.
While we are fundamentally IT generalists, we have also developed deep skills and expertise in a number of Internet solutions. Where and when the nature of those skills provides an extra benefit through Partnership relationships, we have formally entered into Partnership relationships with those companies. In many cases our Partners are Software as Services (SaaS) organizations and we have developed deep expertise in their solutions as part of our “tool-kit” of solutions that we use to support running your organization from the Internet. These types of providers are our tool-kit Partners.
Again, we are constantly extending our diverse and broad generalist skills by proactively monitoring what is new, upgraded, and coming in the exciting world of Internet technologies. Please take the time to browse our various Partners and the tools we use.
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Google Apps
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Google Apps is and has been, since it’s by invitation only beta days, the primary IT infrastructure for OMBNexGen: We live in Google Apps! While the various individual principles were using Google’s personal services for some time, once we came together to form the new company, OMBNexGen, LLC, we purposefully deployed all of our “internal” (remember for us “internal” is a concept that lives on the Internet Cloud) IT infrastructure through the Google Apps for business services.
Our email is hosted and managed by Google Apps, our office automation solutions like Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, etc., are provided through Google Apps, and in addition our collaborative workspace services, i.e., Google Chat, Google Video, shared documents, and our Intranet services are all provided by Google Apps. We use the Premium Google Apps version so that we can have the security and SPAM services of the Google Postini products as well as compliance and email retention services. In a sentence, Google Apps is our IT infrastructure.
As early Google Apps converts and by invitation beta testers, we have developed an incredibly strong and rich skill set in all of the Google offerings (Google Analytics, web-tools, maps, etc…). To a great extent Google Apps epitomizes are philosophy of what is smart about the direction the Internet can take in terms of transforming IT into Next Generation solutions.
While Google Apps is completely second hand to us, we have come to understand and learn that even today many organizations don’t know or understand the extent of what Google offers in terms of commercial class enterprise IT services. Everyone knows Google search, but lots of people don’t know Google Apps.
If an organization does nothing else to upgrade their IT infrastructure to Next Generation Internet services, it must and should seriously consider Google Apps for email. Email is one of those organizational must have services, like a phone and electricity, that should be as trivial and reliable as having a phone or electricity; Google Apps hosted email for business is as good as it gets for enterprise email. How many organizations can say that about their MS Exchange environments! Furthermore we challenge anyone to show us an email solution that is less expensive, while still being enterprise grade and quality, than Google Apps business hosted email.
Our Tool Box Partners
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The secret to being a great technologist (apart from having innate diagnostic skills) is having a good “tool-box” of things to use to solve an opportunity. Take 50 years of solving technical opportunities, add it to our superior innate diagnostic skills, and mix it up with our keen ability to learn new things and I can assure you, we have a great set of tools to use in moving your organization to the Internet (really, solve any of your technical opportunities!)
Listed below are some of the tools we are currently working with. In reviewing the tool box of solutions we are familiar with, you will get an overall sense of how and where we fit in terms of helping your organization make the move to putting your business on the Internet.
The List Of “Tools”:
- Team Viewer - There is no reason to let distance separate us from helping and or supporting you. Team Viewer is an incredible solution for remote support, remote teaching, and remote desktop sharing. This product is very easy to use and overcomes the silly issues of Firewall’s, private networks, and technical configuration confusion.
- Grand Central - One number that can follow you anywhere and will take to all of your other numbers.
- ZOHO - This is tough to describe as there are so many parts to the ZOHO solution. Our best advice is to seriously check ZOHO out. In fact, we are seriously considering moving from Google Apps to ZOHO.
- MindMeister - Online MindMapping solution that allows us to collaboratively present ideas visually.
- Gliffy - Online drawing application (think cloud based VISIO).
