Google Apps is a suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools including Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and Docs. It allows users to access emails, documents and calendars from anywhere while reducing IT costs and complexity compared to on-premise solutions. Google Apps offers features like 25GB of email storage per user, spam filtering, video sharing, and real-time collaboration on documents. It aims to help businesses be more productive by saving employees time spent searching for information and making intellectual property more accessible.

1. Cloud Computing and Google Apps Listed in Google Solutions Marketplace

2. Google’s Mission Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

4. Google Apps

5. Google Apps Premier Edition Offering Gmail Email with 25GB of storage, spam filtering and search Talk Instant communication within and outside your business Calendar Personal, shared, and public calendars Messaging Docs Simple real-time document collaboration from anywhere Video Securely share internal videos. Sites Easily created and edited group web pages Collaboration

6. Google Apps: Messaging 25 GB/user inbox Search Spam & antivirus protection Gmail Free PC-PC voice calls Group Chat Unlimited file transfers Gmail integration, Search Create, share calendars Sync with Outlook Calendar

7. Google Apps can transform your business Productive employees Less time searching for information, more time using information Lower IT cost and complexity Scalable, reliable cloud computing with less maintenance Reduced security and compliance risks Move your business forward while ensuring you’re protected

8. Google Apps: Collaboration Search Templates, files, rich content Designate owners/viewers Sites Create & share real-time Built-in revision history Docs, spreadsheets, presentations Easy setup Easy to distribute Secure sharing w/in domain Video Docs No HTML knowledge required

10. Google Apps Customers More than 1 million businesses More than 3,000 new businesses every day Enterprises — Fortune 500 and Public Sector Academic and Non–Profit Organizations Small and Mid-Size Businesses

11. Cloud advantage: speed 2008 Google Sites Postini services Outlook calendar sync Apps Labs Docs offline 68 major feature releases (so far) Salesforce integration Google Video

12. Cloud advantage: reliability Radicati Group