By Lindsay,
Google Apps for business (free edition), are a series of appications that allow you, the small business owner to run email, documents, calendars from a web browser. The free edition allows you to have up to 10 email addresses.
The main products are:
Gmail. Rather than a @gmail.com address you can set up a @yourbusiness.co.nz email address. Same look and feel and storage limits as normal Gmail (typically 7 Gbytes of email storage). Able to be accessed via any web browser, and smartphones.
Calendar. Nice calendar, able to share the calendar with other people in your team.
Google Docs. A place to store your documents, and the ability to create documents. Since everything is web based, the features are lmited, especially in the spreadsheet program. Douments can be shared amongst team members.
Initial impressions - It's ok for free. There are better free Office applications available. And the email user interface is...well...clunky. However in saying this, having something that works via a web browser, has some integration with smartphones, and is built around collaboration with fellow team members is pretty good.
Next I'll be invetigating the Google Apps marketplace for free business related applications that integrate with Google apps
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