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Friday, August 31, 2012

Business tools from Google+

Google+ declared on Wednesday that it will release tools for businesses that will be free for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Apps customers through 2013, Google Enterprise Blog reported.

Google Apps hangout

As the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal declares the features releasing on Wednesday include private sharing within a business; video meetings that can utilized Google calendar, Gmail and Google Docs; and administrative controls that be able to be used to set firm-wide declare restrictions.

Its entry into the enterprise social networking (ESN) market adds new collaboration features to Google Apps — the cloud-computing office service — including 10-way desktop videoconferencing with real-time editing.

It also adds all the security tools you’d expect, to help IT help users to keep sensitive data inside the organization.

On the one hand, Google doesn’t seem to know what to call this new thing: Google+ For Work? Google+ Enterprise? Or is it just a part of good ol’ Google Apps?

On The Other Hand, this could be strong competition for Microsoft‘s more expensive Office 365 service.

Search and advertising giant Google Inc. concentrated on the advertising side of its business current week by putting a billboard ad for its new tablet right in the center of its homepage, just under the search box.

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