List View, a filtering and sorting feature for Google Spreadsheets previously released for mobile devices, is now available in your browser. The feature makes it easier to add, edit, sort, and filter rows.
Yesterday, I blogged about the cost of MS Exchange 2007, particularly since most SMBs do not buy Software Assurance and will need to purchase new licenses and new hardware.
In our example, a 20 person company looking to run a Standard Edition of Windows Server and MS Exchange would likely spend $20,000 to $25,000 over a three year period, or about $400 per user per year, to provide email, calendar, contacts, and tasks.
With support, SMBs can get these services via Google Apps for about $5000 over the same three year period. Yes, you can save 75%
Again, this is a baseline comparison. For in-house solutions, costs rise if you add redundancy or collaboration tools. With Google Apps, redundancy is built-in and collaboration tools are included for free.
Granted, Google Apps is not appropriate for every business. But, do you not owe it to your bottom line to explore the possibility?
For most companies, the time to upgrade from MS Exchange 2003 to MS Exchange 2007 is when the physical server is ready for replacement. In part, this is a necessity because Exchange 2007 only runs in a 64-bit environment and most servers running MS Windows Server 2003 are running on a 32-bit system.
Unless you have purchased Software Assurance for your operating system, Exchange, and the Client Access Licenses (CALs), you will have the following software costs when you upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007.
For a 20 person company, your software costs are $1800 for the server and $2040 for the Exchange server, a total of $3840. This assumes, of course, that you have already spent the $4000 to $7500 on an a 64-bit server. If not, your total cost is about $10,000, or $500 per user.
If you extend your analysis into the future, add costs for administrator time, hardware and software maintenance and updates, and the hard and soft costs of backup. Over three years, our 20 person company could easily spend $20,000 to $25,000 for email services.
This is the baseline. Add redundancy, collaboration, and other capabilities to your environment and you are buying more hardware, more software, and spending more on administration, support, and backups.
Email is critical to most businesses and maybe $500 per user per year is a good deal. Then again, maybe there is a better way. More to follow.
Google has expanded the capabilities of Google Video for Google Apps Premier and Education Edition users.
You can now:
– Add captions to your videos
– Upload videos up to 1 GB in size (increased from the 300 MB previous limit)
Click here to learn more about these features.
Also, Google has set the video storage size for Education edition users. Each school gets 10GB o Google Video storage.
Businesses using Google Apps Premier Edition still have 10GB plus an additional 500MB per user account. A business with 10 users will have a total of 15GB of Google Video storage.
Google has made a small, but effective, change to how Gmail handles the “Mark Unread” function in conversations. Now, when you open a conversation and use the “Mark as Unread” button, messages that were previously previously read will remain as such.
In effect, you will not loose your history of read messages.
Every wish you could use the same email address for multiple contacts? Now you can.
If you have a Google Analytics account and use Google Apps Premier or Education edition, you can now monitor Gmail usage. This capability expands your ability to use analytics to monitor usage of Google Sites and Google Docs.
For organizations that integrate Google Analytics in their web site, SEO, and email marketing efforts (using systems like ten24), this is an opportunity to expand the analysis in several ways:
In short, this further enhances your ability to understand your customers.
From Stop Buying Servers, here is some sound advice on managing Browser Add-Ins to improve performance.
Did you see Google’s announcement for Gmail AutoPilot? Did you think, “What a great service?” Did your read the sample messages and responses?
While AutoPilot sounds cool, it was just an April Fool’s Day joke.
If you are in the area and can leave work a little early, please join Horizon Info Services at the Corridor Nine Chamber’s Open for Business Expo.
It is a great opportunity to see our Cloud Computing solutions first-hand, including Google Apps Premier Edition, Google Security and Compliance Solutions, and our industry-leading online backup and recovery solutions.
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