Google gives its Apps an update

David Swan
Monday, 28 February 2011 12:48

Your IT - Home IT

Google has announced some significant changes to its Google Apps collaboration tools, including a new plug-in for Microsoft Office.

 

The new plug-in was announced late last week in a Google blog post, and is available worldwide, allowing users allowing users to add a plugin for Office that will allow integration with Google Docs.

'The plugin syncs your work through Google's cloud, so everyone can contribute to the same version of a file at the same time,' said the company.

'Learning the benefits of web-powered collaboration will help more people make a faster transition to 100% web collaboration tools.'

Google also launched a '90-Day Appsperience' program which is 'a way for companies that currently use cumbersome legacy systems to see how web-powered tools help their teams work together more effectively.'

Essentially, businesses can pay a small fee to gain access to a 90-day free trial of Google Apps.

'Companies trying Google Apps can use the new collaboration dashboard in the Google Apps control panel to assess the value of our tools,' the company said.

'The dashboard provides data on how people are using Apps to collaborate more efficiently without the hassles of document versions, check-in/check-out or attachments."