Google Apps has made a recent splash as a cost-effective, cloud computing apps for email and messaging, document storage and collaboration, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations.  Google Apps come in two flavors for businesses: Standard and Premium. 

The Standard edition is free, ad-supported with basic features and a 7GB email storage limit.  The Premium edition costs $50/user per year and has many more features like smartphone support, live tech support and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Regardless of which edition you choose, you can run your entire organization on Google Apps and keep your domain name (i.e., yourdomain.com). Here's what you what you get with each edition.


StandardPremiumFree, ad-supported$50/yr per userno Outlook SyncSyncs with Outlook calendar, email, contacts7.3GB email storage25GB email storageno SLA99.9% uptime SLAno SmartPhone supportSmartPhone supportno archivingemail archiving up to 10 years (Postini)50 user limitno limitno toolsEmail migration toolsno routing or email gateway supportEmail routing and email gateway supportonline self service support onlyphone and email support from Google

Other Google Apps Premium extras include Google Groups and Videos (similar to YouTube), forced SSL encryption, custom password strength requirements, and other features.

AXICOM is a Google Apps Reseller and we provide setup, migration and on-going support services.  For more information or to learn how your organization can benefit with Google Apps, contact us at (818) 865-9865 or info@axicom.net.