Posts Tagged ‘Google Apps’
Google ramps up APIs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
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Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks.
This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings.
Here’s the key difference in what we had [...]
Google Apps hitting the chasm?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
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Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market?
Let’s look at the [...]
Google Apps failure - someone’s opportunity
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008
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Google Apps (including GMail) were out (again) for commercial customers this week. Considering the August outages not that long ago, this can be a significant PR blow for Google’s enterprise efforts. Or this could be a great opportunity for 3rd-parties to get in and make Google Apps enterprise-ready.
Here’s a quick summary from Slashdot:
“A prolonged, ongoing [...]
How many Google Apps users are there?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 3, 2008
I’ve tried to search through all the public information out there to find out how many people are actually using Google’s productivity suite, how many of them are in businesses, and how many are actually paying for the service.
Total number
In August Eric Zeman from the InformationWeek reported the figure of 10 million users. Way [...]
28% of enterprises evaluating Google Apps
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 2, 2008
Bloomberg is running an article on Kevin Turner (Microsoft’s COO), how he is re-organizing Microsoft sales, and fighting competition from Google.
A few facts from the article caught my attention. First and foremost:
Twenty-eight percent of technology buyers in a Goldman survey this month said they were trying Google applications or plan to in the next year, [...]
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