Google has launched itsApps
Team Editionto help staff to
collaborate.
Once users verify their business or school e-mail address, they
can instantly share documents and calendars securely without
support from the IT department.
Team Edition can easily be switched to Google Apps Standard,
Premier or Education Edition for communications and
collaboration across the entire company.
"With Team Edition, groups of individuals at school or work can
just as easily get the benefits of Google Apps by simply signing up
online," said Dave Girouard, vice-president and general manager of
enterprise at Google.
Once a user has signed up for Team Edition using a verified
business or school e-mail address, they can instantly invite others
to join, or easily identify people within their organisation
already using
Google Apps, to collaborate and share documents.
"We started using Google Docs and Google Calendar with our
personal accounts to do things like co-ordinate customer visits and
work together on documents, even when we're travelling separately,"
said Paul Laurie, co-founder of
Walking Tree Travel, an
organisation that leads educational trips abroad for US high-school
students.
Google Apps Standard, Premier and Education Editions give full
administrative control, such as the ability to set default sharing
options, to decide which applications are available on the network,
or to determine who has access.
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