Every business is looking for the perfect “tool” to run their business.  Looking for ways to increase their productivity by reducing mundane tasks.  Owners want to make sure that tasks are completed on-time and with superior quality.  Usually finding this tool results in tens of beta trials, endless hours of searching the web, and in [...]

This week Google released the Google Apps Marketplace which will allow software developers to integrate their products with Google Apps. What this means for Google Apps customers is that they will now be able to take advantage of Google Apps for their core messaging and collaboration needs and tightly integrate their other application needs into [...]

Microsoft has given Google Apps the ultimate compliment, they started going after it on YouTube. This past week Microsoft has posted a new series of YouTube videos under their “officevideos” channel. The video “Titles Why Microsoft: Microsoft Compared to Google – Total Value Overview” Microsoft makes some claims about how Google Apps does not provide [...]

Google Provides a great calculator to help you predict what your cost savings will be by switching from Exchange 2007 to Google Apps Premier (Savings Calculator). The Google Apps cost savings calculator only requires that input two variables and then spits out your one time and ongoing savings. The two variables you need is number [...]

In an article published last week in the Wall Street Journal titled “It’s a Free Country…So why can’t I pick the technology I use in the office?” (The benefits of “Cloud Apps” such as Google Apps were mentioned as several times. According to the journal when you are at the office you are confined to [...]

IBM introduced iNotes hosted email solution yesterday.  IBM didn’t mix their words about iNotes being a direct competitor with Google Apps and believes that they can do enterprise email better than Google.  The iNotes hosted solution provides email and calendar with 1GB storage per user.  IBM also is attempting to compete with Google on price, [...]

2020Tek successfully transitioned a local real estate firm to Google Apps for their communication and collaboration needs. 2020Tek deployed Google Apps for Spring Pointe Realty, a St. Paul Real estate agency and development firm. After looking at the company’s needs including improved reliability, ability to access their email while on the move, and ability to [...]