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There is no doubt that Google Apps for Business is the number 1 cloud computing application for small businesses but it is always interesting to find out why

Click on the link below to view a Google Spreadsheet that has been shared with users so they can share their opinions with us

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/bnetcentric.co.uk/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0ApY-fwYJF2hLdEQwUDZQR3JIenRfNjA4ek5ybzUyeXc&output=html&ndplr=1

A neat trick really using the power of google apps to share the benefits

GMail for Business just keeps getting better – over the last week or so Google have been rolling out their people widget. This clever tools sits in the right hand column and display a list of people associated with a particular email and then from the same screen it allows you to

• Schedule a Group Meeting
• Update Contact Record
• View last 5 emails from each person
• Start a Google Talk Chat

Think this is a very useful tool that will encourage more business users to adopt GMail for Business – you can find out more on our GMail for Business pages

Google Calendar has rapidly become an indispensable tool for managing your diary in the cloud, it allows you to integrate with Microsoft Outlook users and almost all mobile devices like iPhone and Android

It has loads of excellent features but until today it did not allow you to mark slots in your diary as appointments that can be booked online by colleagues or customers

This new feature will be rolled out to all Google Apps for Business users over the next few days and we can see it being an excellent tool for any business wanting to allow basic online booking such as clinics, trainers and leisure facilities

If you want to find out more about Google Calendar then go to the Google Apps for Business section on our website http://www.bnetcentric.co.uk/virtualbusiness/googleapps.html

We have been using and promoting Gravity Forms for well over a year and continue to be impressed at the new features they are constantly adding

You can now use them to create order forms for complex products and this week they have added Paypal integration as well. This means that without having to set up an ecommerce website you can take orders and payments for complex products and services like subscriptions, course booking or configurable products

Gravity Forms are designed for WordPress and can be integrated into any wordpress site – we have also pioneered a way of integrating them into other website platforms

You can buy and install Gravity Forms yourself  or we can set up and support you as part of our Form Builder Package

They are so easy to use and so flexible – build a form for almost any purpose in minutes

We often get asked what is the difference between the free Google Apps Standard Edition and the £35 per user per year Google Apps for Business. So detailed below are the main reasons why we think it is worth upgrading to Google Apps for Business

1. You get 25GB storage per person compared to 7GB
2. Google Apps Standard only supports up to 10 users
3. Enhanced security forced SSL
4. Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
5. Google Sync for Blackberry & Outlook
6. 99.9% uptime guarantee
7. SLA and 24×7 support
8. Google Video
9. Google Groups for Business
10. Google Apps Market Place

It is also worth pointing out that you can use your own domain with Google Apps – business users do not use @gmail