10 Mar 2010
Microsoft's Office suite may have its work cut out following the release today of search giant Google's new business Apps Store.
The service, called Google Apps Marketplace, will integrate with its Google Apps software suite which is currently used by more than two million businesses.
The Google Apps Marketplace will be open to developers and more than 50 companies have been involved in the creation of business apps on the platform.
It will offer business software such as a project management application, a tax and payroll program, an electronic fax program, an e-signature service, and a design tool for Google Docs.
Third-party applications include the following, according to a blog by Chris Vander Mey, product manager for Google Apps Marketplace:
Charges for participating developers in Google Apps Marketplace will be a fixed $100 (£67) for unlimited applications.
Google Apps currently includes Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs, and the new applications store will be competing with Microsoft's Office Web Apps and the new version of Office 10, which launches in June.
Some of the third-party applications will include features that integrate with business's back-end data stores.
Agreed that this does make a tough case for Microsoft Office. Obviously, one of Google's main roles in starting the Apps Marketplace is to make its products as successful as possible. In an effort to do this, they realize not all knowledge and innovation must come from within - better to invite others to participate in a manner that increases the use and adoption of Google Apps?
OnState ( http://www.onstate.com/google ) has integrated both our virtual call center and virtual PBX products into Google Apps, and both were launched in the Apps Marketplace last night. With these additions, now users can get the SaaS benefits of resiliency, scalability, and workforce virtualization along with the power of Google Apps; full customer collaboration from anywhere at any time!
Posted by: Shawn 10 Mar 2010
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