SME Package
The IT related demands of a small and medium enterprise (SME) are very different, both from a cost and complexity perspective.
RIM Package
Calsoft's unique RIM package has always been a favorite with new entrants to infrastructure outsourcing. Designed to offer the best value for money
Google Apps Offerings
Google has a robust and proven technology in the cloud computing space. Google Apps is one of the latest cloud computing technology offerings from Google. It is delivered through a SaaS model. With Google Apps, educational institutions can benefit from the simplified and improved communication and collaboration platforms it offers while at the same time reducing the IT overheads significantly.
Google Apps is currently offered to Education customers free of cost as Google Apps for Edu and commercially offered as Google Apps Premier. Google Apps for Edu has all the features of Google Apps Premier except for Managed Spam.
Google’s cloud delivery model provides excellent benefits to students. Students can access their data on Google Apps from anywhere regardless of the computer platform, browser or the mobile device without the need to install any software. With the vast range of apps available in Google Apps like Mail, Docs, Sites, Video, Talk students can collaborate seemlessly than ever before.
Let’s take a look at Google Apps offerings,
Mail – One of the cornerstones of Google Apps offering is Gmail. Google Apps mail has the same interface as of Gmail, which most user are already familiar with. Google Apps for Edu offer students 25GB of storage space for their email accounts. Students can retain emails year after year without having to delete them because of lack of storage space. With the amazing Google search technology, students can search through their emails within sub seconds.Students can also leverage the talk and video chat facilities built in the Google Apps mail interface. The interface also gives access to Google calendar. With Google calendar view, users can create and allow access to their personal, shared and group calendars.
Docs – With Google Docs, users can use online versions of Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Users can create docs, save it online and access it from anywhere without installing any software. Professors can collectively or selectively give view or colloborative access to students. Google Docs revision history feature allows file owners to view the changes made to the document by collaborative users. Among a variety of formats to export, Google Docs also has the ability to export to MS Office formats and pdf. Google Docs provides virtually unlimited storage space for documents which are saved online in Google Docs versions.
Sites – Google Sites allow students to create websites with the click of a button. Creating, editing Google sites is as simple as editing a Word document. Sites created can be both internal which can only be accessed by authorized internal users or external, which is accessible to the public. Google sites provide a central space for collaboration. Sites can be used for document portals, project management repositories, online library, and virtual classroom. The faculty members can have their own websites, can post their class schedule calendars, post homework assignments, list down class activities, events and much more.
Besides some of these amazing benefits for students, there are a multitude of benefits to the IT department. The IT department can save a significant amount of time in the management of the email system. For e.g. administrators can save time in monitoring storage systems which are dedicated for user mailboxes, applying patches to the system, provisioning disk space, upgrading firmware, taking backup of the storage systems etc. Besides, a big chunk of time can be saved on helpdesk activities for keeping mailbox size in check, upgrading mailbox sizes, moving mailboxes during a system upgrade, patching mail servers, adhering to compliance and email security, dealing with spam etc. Moving the email system to Google Apps has proven cost savings. IT can have 99.9% uptime and not worry about dealing with spam again.
For an overview of the benefits that can be achieved by moving to Google Apps, please click here.
