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On Friday Google announced its Cloud Transformation Program, a quick way for larger enterprises to get started with a series of Google's cloud-based services. Included in the initial set are

Google is finally getting around to adding offline access back to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar. Today the company announced that it was adding offline capabilities immediately to Gmail,

Nimble, the social CRM startup founded by Jon Ferrara (creator of Goldmine, one of the first CRM systems), has made its SaaS available through the Google Apps Marketplace. We

Today Google announced a new tool for Apps Script, the scripting language for Google Apps: Apps Script GUI Builder. Apps Script lets admins automate tasks and extend the functionality

There were a few updates to Google Docs last week. Discussions, a new feature we covered previously, received some improvements - most notably, the ability to see how many

A recent story in Network World shows one way that Microsoft will make future wins over to its cloud-based Office offerings, now called Office 365 and still in beta: with

Google Apps Business and Education customers got a security option today. Administrators can now delegate certain admin privileges, such as creating new accounts or managing mail lists, to specific

Today Zoho announced Zoho Creator for Google Apps, bringing it total number Google Apps Marketplace offerings to 11 and making it the largest vendor in the marketplace. But more

Starting now, Google is rolling out a new commenting system to all Google Docs users except those Google Apps customers who opt-out through the new system we told you

Earlier this week Google released its Google Apps Shell Interface (GASI), an a new way for Google Apps admins to work with the Google Apps APIs without writing code.

Today Google announced a new service based on technology from its Postini acquisition: Google Message Continuity. "Google Message Continuity works by replicating email accounts hosted on Microsoft Exchange Servers

Facebook may seem like the aggressor today but going after a competitor's customer base is nothing new. It's part of the game. Just take a look at what Google is

Google Voice, Google's call routing and VOIP service, is finally coming to Google Apps according to Fortune tech blogger Seth Weintraub. Weintraub writes that Google Voice is now enabled

Google Research plays a major role in how the company develops its security practices for its applications. Ulfar Erlingsson runs security research for Google. He spoke earlier this year at

Cloud Sherpas has made a business of migrating and servicing Google Apps customers. It has migrated 600,000 users from platforms such as Lotus Notes and Sharepoint. Cloud Sherpas also offers

We hear stories all the time about people adopting Google Apps. Major school systems are adopting Google Apps. The city of Los Angeles adopted Google Apps. This kind of new

Google Apps is launching two-factor authentication, allowing the capability to verify a person's identity with a code sent to the user's mobile device. Most Web-based services still use systems that

As the cloud computing market gets more crowded, a number of Web-based calculators are popping up to lure customers. These online calculators deserve their fair share of scrutiny. For the

At what point does a CRM application become a collaboration service? And when does a collaboration service become a CRM application? These are question we ask ourselves when we see

The LA Times reported over the weekend that Google had missed its deadline for implementing a the city's new email system, in part because it had not fully responded to

Microsoft is making two big bets for the new fiscal year: the cloud and the small business market. So it's fitting that the company is creating a new division that

Today at Google's annual conference, I/O, the company announced a partnership with VMware. This news immediately turned our minds to the possibilities for enterprise app developers. What we see is

Cloud Sherpas offers additional IT administrative tools that help make it easy to manage the increasingly popular Google Apps platform. The company is riding the momentum of growth today announced

At Google Atmosphere last month, Google Apps President David Girouard said that the company gets lots of requests to open more apps from the Google portfolio. Google responded to those

Google has been working to harden Google Apps for its arrival into the enterprise. The tools bring browser based productivity into another dimension. And, where people are productive, security is