Google Apps Services

A Fresh Approach to IT

Though IT is a key enabler of business functionality, as an organisation grows it must invest more and more time ensuring that it’s IT infrastructure is keeping up. Traditionally, IT management is a fine balance between working around technical limitations and sky-rocketing costs. Sandfield's collection of Google Apps services, tools and applications allow businesses to focus on their growth, not on their IT, whilst remaining connected and productive.

Sandfield can leverage Google Apps for Business to provide your organisation with a strong foundation of productivity, communication and collaboration tools. With Google Apps for Business you get enterprise-class applications that have several advantages:

Cost-effectiveness

• No hardware costs (nor the associated upgrades and maintenance)
• No software upgrades or maintenance costs
• Reduced need for in-house IT skills that are unrelated to your core business
• Pay-per-user means you pay for the employees you enable, not for the capacity you think you'll need

Flexibility and Productivity

• Device independence – it doesn't matter what type of PCs or smartphones an organisation uses, as long as they have access to the internet
• 25GB of storage space per user (for email alone)
• Location independence – data and applications are stored in the cloud enabling staff to work from anywhere, even while mobile
• Organisation-wide communication and collaboration tools eliminate file versions and email attachments but enable employees to innovate
• Enterprise-class features including Microsoft Office compatibility, SPAM protection and world-class search functionality

Reliability and Security

• SLAs guarantee 99.9% uptime with no allowance for downtime due to planned maintance
• SAS 70 Type II certification and advanced security features such as two-step authentication and SSL encryption
• Eliminate the need for risky backup/recovery processes and disaster recovery planning

End-to-End Service

Sandfield can work with your organisation to design a Google Apps-based solution that works for your business, to help you migrate from your existing IT infrastructure and to provide on-going training and support. As an authorised Google Apps Reseller we're up to date with all of the best practices for Google Apps implementations.

We look beyond the standard Google Apps applications, however, to develop rich integrations with line-of-business and back-end applications in order to provide a customised service that works with your business – not against it. Talk to us about the way we are using Google Apps within our own business!

Google Apps Overview

The video below demonstrates the ease of use and capability of the Google Apps for Business suite of applications.