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Share your work from Google Drive to Google+

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Posted by Li-Wei Lee, Software Engineer

(Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog.)

With Google+, you can share what you want with just the right people. That might be pictures from your team offsite or an article from your favorite new blog. Starting today, you can also share the work you create and store in Google Drive, and people will be able to flip through presentations, open PDFs, play videos and more--directly in the Google+ stream.

(click the image above to view a presentation in the stream)

Forms shared in the stream, like feedback surveys or lunch order polls, are interactive as well and can be completed with just a couple of clicks.

To share, paste the link to the Drive file directly in the share box inside Google+. And, if you use Google Apps for Business, Education or Government you can make the post restricted to ensure that the discussion is only visible to people in your organization.

Introducing the new compose in Gmail

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager(Cross-posted on the Gmail Blog.)Faster

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One click to Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management(Cross-posted from the Google Drive Blog.)DocsSheetsSlides

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Google spreadsheets, now with Discussions

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Posted by Patrick Donelan, Software Engineer(Cross-posted from the Google Drive blog.)documentspresentations

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Gmail log search feature enhances visibility for domain admins

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Posted by Priya Mathew, Google Apps Senior StrategistGoogle Apps

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Google Apps Vault goes global

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Posted by Jack Halprin, Head of eDiscovery, Googlelaunched"Google Apps Vault offers compelling capabilities and value for businesses around the world in preparing for litigation, investigation, and managing day-to-day business. Vault integrates seamlessly across the evolving Google platform while integrating with business and industries of all sizes. This is a key component in our forward thinking strategy to drive down costs and provide enhanced client service."

- Eric Hunter - Director of Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Strategies at Bradford & Barthel, LLPGoogle Apps Vault

Adding business class management features to Gmail

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Posted by Adam Dawes, Gmail Product Manager

Last year, we started integrating Postini’s business-class email security and management capabilities into Gmail and today we’re excited to be rolling out the latest round of integrated features. Google Apps administrators can now take advantage of improved email compliance footers, approved/blocked sender lists and file attachment policies. These capabilities help our customers address compliance requirements and effectively manage email traffic. Previously, Google Apps customers used Google Message Security, powered by Postini, to provide these capabilities.

With this new release, we’ve improved these features and designed them specifically to meet the needs of our Apps customers. Admins will manage the features natively in the Google Apps control panel (localized in 28 languages), leverage our granular policy framework to customize settings for different types of users, and join multiple rules together to address very targeted use cases.

These new features are available globally for Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Government and Google Apps for Education editions.

Dominie Liang, IT Director at New Media Group in Hong Kong, was able to use the new features to quickly address his company’s compliance requirements:

"Our legal team wanted us to add a compliance note to all of our outbound email. Thanks to Google's new email feature set, we could easily add the rich text format disclaimer with Chinese characters to the email footer, and solved the issue within a minute."

George Krieger, Technical Services Manager, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, adds:

"The new message footers in Gmail have made it easy for us to standardize our email signatures and more effectively promote our race schedules. And I love the ability to delegate control of these to our Media department so they can change them when they want without having to call me. This is a major improvement for us."

With the addition of these features to Gmail, there is no longer a need to use Google Message Security (GMS) with Google Apps so we will no longer offer GMS to Google Apps customers. We’ll work with those customers currently using GMS to migrate their settings to these new features. For more information on these features and how customers can migrate to them please refer to this Google Apps Help Center article and the Transition Guide.

New apps status dashboard improves visibility

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Posted by Sumeet Pannu, Site Reliability Engineer ManagerEditors note: This post is part of a series that explores the top ten reasons why customers trust Google with their business data. A complete top ten list can be found here.Gmail was up and running 99.984%new Apps Status Dashboard

Open for business: Chromebooks for businesses & schools

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager, Chrome for Businesswe announced a new kind of computertoday’s announcementcontact our sales teamPilot customer Jason's Deli discusses Chromebooks.

Share your Google Docs product ideas with our team

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Posted by Teresa Wu, Community Manager(Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog.)Product IdeasEditors note: We’re specifically looking to hear your Google Docs product ideas and suggestions. If you’re seeking help, please post your support questions to the Help Forum. Off topic submissions may be removed.

New computers for the browser-based world

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager, Chrome for Business1

The browser is the platform3Citrix Receiver4What we learned from the pilot programpilot program for testing ChromebooksHow to get your ChromebooksLearn more about Chromebooks for BusinessRegister here
¹Plus applicable taxes and other fees, subject to change without prior notice.
²Gartner Research, 2010. "Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update”
³IDC, 2010. “Worldwide Software as a Service 2010–2014 Forecast: Software Will Never Be the Same.”
⁴Google-commissioned 2011 Hall & Partners online survey of over 400 IT decision makers.

Google App Engine - a new version and a preview of future plans

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Posted by Greg D’Alesandre, Senior Product Manager, Google App EngineEditors note: Today we’re at Google I/O, and we have a few announcements about how we’re making our developer tools more available and better for businesses. The first, below, summarizes important improvements to Google App Engine.Google App Enginelaunched as preview statusTask Queuesmore

With Backends, App Engine can now support applications that require long running and high memory processes. This feature allows for new classes of applications such as report generation apps and custom search engines to be hosted on the platform.

The improvements to Task Queues allows for applications to control how tasks are executed and easily share the work using the new REST-based APIs. This API access expands App Engine’s compatibility with other on-premise and cloud services, furthering our commitment to an open development platform.

99.95% uptime service level agreementnew Terms of Service agreementfeatures and pricing changesApp Engine Blog

Introducing Staff Picks on the Google Apps Marketplace

Monday, May 9, 2011

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Simpler file upload in Google Docs

Thursday, April 28, 2011

(Extended post on the Google Docs Blog.)

Starting today, Rapid Release users now have access to these handy new features in Google Docs: folder upload, documents list integration, and drag-and-drop upload.

Folder upload is now accessible via the new Upload menu in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari. We’ve also merged the upload page’s functionality into the documents list to create a much better upload experience. When you upload files via the new drop-down menu, a window will pop up in the bottom right of your documents list and show upload progress. Lastly, if you are using Chrome, Safari and Firefox on your Mac or PC, you’ll also be able to drag-and-drop one or more files directly into your documents list to initiate an upload.

For more details about today’s changes to uploading files, check out our extended post on the Google Docs Blog or take a look at our FAQs.
Update: This is now rolled out to everyone.
Posted by Mike Procopio, Software Engineer

Upload images in Google spreadsheets

Thursday, April 28, 2011

(Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog.)InsertImage...

Google spreadsheets forumPosted by: Nick Santo, Staff Software Engineer

Introducing the new Google Docs app for Android

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

(Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog and Google Mobile Blog.)

Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information -- from email to web browsing to editing documents. Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we’re happy to announce the new Google Docs app for Android.

The Docs app also allows you to upload content from your phone and open documents directly from Gmail. You can also add a widget to your home screen for easy access to three core tasks: jumping to your starred documents, taking a photo to upload, or creating a new document with one tap.

And my favorite feature: Using the app and your phone’s camera, you can turn photos with text into editable Google documents with the power of optical character recognition (OCR). Just create a new ‘Document from Photo' or select the camera icon from the widget, and your converted document will appear in your documents list shortly after you snap the picture. You can also convert photos already stored on your phone by sharing them with the Google Docs app. OCR does a pretty good job capturing unformatted text in English but won't recognize handwriting or some fonts - stay tuned, it will get better over time!

The Google Docs app is currently available in English and works on Android 2.1+ phones. Try it out by scanning the QR code below or by visiting Android Market.

Let us know what you think of the new Google Docs Android app in our forum.
Posted by Reuben Kan, Software Engineer

Bring the Google Apps Marketplace to your business this App Tuesday

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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Assistly is a helpdesk tool that allows teams and entire companies to support customers via email, phone, chat, web, Facebook and Twitter.

WorkETC combines CRM, project management, billing, sales and more with a powerful automation engine to help small businesses.

Orangescape is a visual development platform for building and deploying business applications on Google App Engine.

SADA Audit Tool is a centralized admin tool that gives you an overview of how resources (Docs, Sites, etc.) have been shared externally.

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Teach your old docs new tricks with Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Mazda Raceway Laguna SecaRegisterPosted by Shan Sinha, Google Apps Product ManagerUpdate:

Google Apps Certification Program launches

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Google Apps just got smarter: introducing the Apps Marketplace’s new EDU category

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Haiku: an LMS that allows teachers to create media-rich class websites, give and auto-grade assessments, annotate assignments and interact online with students.

LearnBoost: an all-in-one gradebook and lesson plan software for teachers that includes tools to visualize data and student performance.

And other classroom management tools such as eduARC, Class.io, PlanbookEdu, ThinkWave SIS and Applane SIS, gradebooks such as Engrade and ThinkWave Gradebook, and assessment tools such as EduBrite and RCampus iRubric.

Learning Aids

BrainPOP: an app that offers animated, curriculum-based content that enhances student learning in numerous ways, from illustrating complex concepts to reviewing before a test.

DreamBox: a tool that helps students learn math through interactive lessons and gives teachers reporting dashboards to monitor individual student progress.

And other teaching aids like Grockit, BuzzMath and LearnThatWord.

Student and Admin Tools

EasyBib: an automatic bibliography composer that helps students format sources quickly and accurately to cite in papers.

Digication: an online e-Portfolio creation tool that helps students share and showcase their work and achievements online.

And other student and admin tools like Aviary, Edutone Sakai Connector, Edutone Moodle Connector, Leveled Library and Rcampus e-Portfolio.

Marketplace education categoryManage your school in the cloud with the Google Apps MarketplaceRegister hereHelp students learn more effectively with the Google Apps MarketplaceRegister here

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