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Overview Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Business) is a suite of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software tools and software offered on a subscription basis by Google. It includes Google's popular web applications including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. Cloud pioneer, reliable cloud infrastructure Google Apps is entirely cloud-driven, no desktop components Provides end-to-end services with email, meetings, office apps all at one place Same experience across different devices, operating systems and browsers (RWD) Offline support for Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs 1 2 3 4 5

Trends O365 usage has sky-rocketed since October 2014, most popular cloud service behind Salesforce – Okta http://www.businessinsider.in/Everyone-is-talking-about-how-Microsoft-Office-365-is-suddenly-beating-Google-Apps/articleshow/46481024.cms On average, Google Apps organizations are experiencing cost savings of 41% while organizations using Office 365 experience cost savings of 27% Office 365 organizations are more than 4x larger and are five years older than Google Apps organizations. http://blog.bettercloud.com/google-apps-vs-office-365/ “Anecdotally, it feels like Microsoft is winning the larger share of the large enterprises in the race for the cloud office market,” said Matt Cain, vice president and distinguished analyst at research firm Gartner Inc http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/07/21/google-posts-great-growth-but-not-necessarily-at-work/ Education, Real-estate, professional services, Media are the top industries leveraging Google Apps, BFSI usage is much less - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/a-study-shows-that-almost-20-of-companies-use-google-apps/

Offerings and Services Gmail Calendar Hangouts Google Plus Communicate Store Drive (30GB of online storage) Collaborate Docs Sheets Forms Slides Sites Manage Admin Vault Google Apps is $5/user/month or $50/user/year. Google Apps with unlimited storage and Vault is an additional $5/user/month Paid Business Features Professional email with domain Additional storage across Gmail and Drive 24/7 phone and email support 99.9% guaranteed uptime Interoperability with Microsoft Outlook (Google Apps Sync) Enhanced security features, and full administration of all user accounts. http://setup.googleapps.com/

Comparison with Competition Google Apps for Work Office 365 Pricing Monthly plans with a minimum of 5 $ per month. 2 basic plans. Scores on ease of use and familiarity of younger users to free Gmail/ Google Quicker for relatively easy tasks. For heavy docs a client based office suite may make sense Popular with newer, leaner organizations and start-ups Has a more mature ecosystem with thousands of third party apps in the marketplace Yearly commitment required. Basic plan @ 5$ / month. 6 packages. For complex activities, Outlook and Office products are more capable Office 365 is slower but is better placed to handle large and complex documents/ spreadsheets etc. Still the product of choice for large enterprises Comparatively newer entrant and third party apps are mostly plugins or accelerators Features Stability/ Speed Usage Ecosystem

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