Google Apps combines existing Google products into a web based interface accessible via your school domain name.
Fully web based, it offers similar features as traditional computer based office suites
Benefits
Integrated web based communication available anywhere, anytime—all you need is a internet connection.
Heaps of storage, with 25GB of per user storage you can stop worrying about a full inbox.
Integrated & shared calendars - manage your schedule, share your appointments, book meetings, reserve resources.
Google Apps is constantly evolving with newer services regularly becoming available. This form of cloud based communication is the way of the future, your existing system is getting left behind!
Just like your personal iGoogle page, Google Apps offers a customized organisational start page.
You can customize the initial screen that users view when logging into Google Apps. Logos, branding, links, feeds, the list is endless – can all be made accessible from your personalized browser homepage.
Google Apps marketplace offers hundreds or features available to further add to your Google experience.
There's no hardware to maintain or software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools - Google Apps for education is free!
Ease of deployment
Google provide numerous migration utilities and methods to allow a seamless migration path from your existing mail system.
Norrcom are experts at managing the migration employing these Google provided tools. The migration can be staged to connect Google Apps to your existing IT infrastructure, even configuring Google Apps alongside an existing email solution as the migration period takes place.
User management is an easy task with Google’s web based control panel and simple menu structure.
Norrcom will assist with initial user creation using data taken from your SMS or even auto populated from the school’s user directory. Norrcom can also setup systems so that Passwords, Email distribution groups, Name changes etc can even be kept in sync with the Google.
There is also the option to enable Single sign-on to connect Google Apps to your existing authentication system.
You have the luxury of deciding on how to use your email - web browser based, mail client (such as Outlook), or even configured to sync with your mobile phone.
Google Apps supports over-the-air mobile access on BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and many less powerful phones.
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Google guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time.
With synchronous replication your data and is simultaneously preserved in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service. Research shows that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month.
When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure.
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