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 [...]

Having to move an entire organization from Lotus Notes to Google Apps can be tough step to make so that is most organization want to run a pilot of Google Apps.  Typically the pilots consist of a small group of users or one department in an organization.   In my opinion to get the most [...]

With the release of OffiSync 2.0 many companies that were hesitant to make the switch to Google Apps should now take a second look. For review OffiSync allows users to integrate Google Apps and Microsoft Office. OffiSync gives you the ability to store documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint files in the cloud through Google Docs while [...]

With the release of the Google Apps Marketplace I have decided that I will be testing out a wide variety of the products in the store to give Google Apps users an idea of what products are currently available to fill their business needs. One great product that I have been testing is MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/. [...]

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 Apps has been adopted by thousands of users over the last year and the large majority of those users will never go back to their old solution. While I believe that Google Apps is great first step into the world of cloud computing and collaboration for business, I think that non-profits need to seriously [...]

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 [...]

Google announced yesterday that you can now upload multiple file types to Google Docs.  This includes zip files, music, pictures, graphic photos and more.  What this means to a lot of small and medium businesses is that when they make the move to Google Apps they will no longer be so reliant upon a standard [...]

Minneapolis, MN. – 2020Tek LLC (www.2020Tek.com) announced its partnership with OffiSync (www.GoOffiSync.com). OffiSync brings together the productivity of Microsoft Office and the innovation of Google’s cloud collaboration platform.
“19.5 percent of organizations reported that Google Docs was “widely used” in their workplace, up from five percent in a similar survey in December 2007. More than 97 [...]