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Information Technology News Capgemini to offer Google Apps to enterprise clients | Capgemini to offer Google Apps to enterprise clients |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 12 September 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Capgemini adds: "Having the ability to share, review, and edit data in a collaborative environment on the Web naturally serves the needs of Capgemini's enterprise clients with multiple facilities, global locations and distributed employees." Featured Whitepaper
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However on the downslide, Ovum added: "Our main objection is that Google has just gone with the existing model of documents - with separate word-processing, spreadsheet and graphical/presentation modules. As we've said elsewhere, we think the world is ready for something better." Ovum also notes that: "the applications on offer from Google are not as fully-functioned as those from Microsoft and IBM. The word processor in particular is pretty lightweight. Secondly, there is no off-line capability with Google Docs, and most laptop users would expect to want to edit documents while on the move. On a more positive note, Ovum says that "Google Apps will get [enterprises] off the upgrade cycle. No need to upgrade the hardware, operating systems, servers and desktop software to upgrade to the latest office suite - all you need are desktops with network connections and browsers." This would seem to be a two-edged sword for Capgemini: Capgemini Global Outsourcing's desktop offering makes revenue from managing and implementing all these upgrades. On this score, Ovum says: "desktop management has become a bit of a commodity that generates thin margins. Capgemini also thinks Google Apps is helping to differentiate its desktop management service offering from competitors - it will, but probably not for very long as this is unlikely to remain an exclusive partnership."{moscomment} |
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