Google Apps Is Telework In A Box

With the addition of Google Voice, Google Wave and Google Buzz, Google Apps makes a very budget-friendly teleworking platform.  Home-based offices and small offices can now purchase a teleworking solution in a box.  With Google Apps you get a complete office productivity software, and communications and collaboration package.

Google Apps Premier Edition includes all apps and costs just $50 per user per year.  Using Google Apps eliminates software licensing costs, though you’ll still have to factor in some administrative and support to provision and maintain remote users.

Providing teleworking employees or contractors with hardware and software is a major expense, especially if your current business apps depend on certain technology.  Google Apps is multi-platform friendly, so teleworkers can use any PC for accessing their email and documents.

With Google Apps, you aren’t going to have the security expenditures that would come with other solutions.

The addition of Google Voice, Google Wave and Google Buzz means that Google can be a unified communications platform.  One of the most important components of successful telework programs is multiple communications channels.  With Google Apps, you’ll be able to offer voice, instant messaging, email and video conferencing to your teleworkers.  With Google Talk and Google Buzz, teleworkers have the ability to publish their presence online so co-workers can see if they are available for meetings, phone calls or online chats.

Google Sites, Google Docs and Google Wave provides you with three different online collaboration options.  This means that you may not have to pay for a separate home office phone line for teleworkers.  Consider using a Google Voice number as the main desk number.  With Google Voice, you can have all phone numbers ring at once, or sequentially.  It’s like having a corporate style telephone system.

With Google Talk, you have the option to add video conferencing by installing a plug-in.  The Google Wave Extensions Library also includes the Video Chat Experience extension.  Adding video conferencing to your mix is now a simple task considering that most notebook PCs come with an integrated camera.

Google Apps is very Digital Nomad friendly.  Because Gmail supports the IMAP protocol, it is easy to extend your teleworkers email accounts to their mobile devices including Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone or Android phones.

The amount of third-party applications that integrate with Google Apps is growing now that the Google Apps Marketplace is live.  See how Xen from Altostrat uses Google Apps for Business.

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