Google Apps is a premiere suite of cloud based productivity applications that assists you and your team work from just about anywhere on any device in the world. Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for enterprises of any size in business, school, or government. Zuma Technology rely on Google Apps ourselves. We trust our own data to the products available to you. Google employees use Gmail for all corporate email, Google Calendar to schedule all meetings and events, and Google Talk to instant message among project teams. We use Google Docs for sensitive content like product design specs, and Google Sites to manage team projects.

How Much Money Can I Save With Google Apps?

Most companies have a cost model for provisioning email and productivity applications to employees – usually somewhere between $300 and $1000 per employee. Google Apps is a fraction of the cost and allows substational storage for an email inbox as well as access to anywhere with an Internet connection.

Is Google Apps Compatible With Microsoft Office?

Yes! A lot of our customers use Microsoft Office products, such as Outlook, that rely on completing day to day activities. Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client lots of our customers use for email, calendar, and contacts. With Google Apps, all of your data can be managed in Microsoft Outlook! Google Drive (formerly Docs), is compatible with Microsoft Office file formats and many other productivity application file formats. Google’s products are designed to open standards and are compatible with many other products.

Why Google Apps?

User Benefits Include:

• Data accessible from anywhere, on any computer platform
• 25GB of email inbox storage per user with powerful search capability
• Simple and fast collaboration and messaging tools
• Data is never lost, even if your laptop dies or is stolen
• Sharing mechanism within Docs, Sites and Video enables a new level of collaboration

IT user benefits include:

• No hardware or software to install or maintain
• Very low fixed cost per user
• Intuitive applications that many users are already familiar with – little training necessary
• Ability to move users incrementally
• Savings of license fees, hardware and data center costs

Business benefits include:

• Decreased cost
• Increased employee productivity, enabling faster decision making.
• More flexibility to deploy changes and innovations fast and get on with business
• Focus resources on strategic initiatives instead of operational activities
• Attractive IT environment for employees of all levels