Authorised Google Apps Reseller

Reliable, secure web-based office tools for any size business

Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just $8 +gst per user per month.

Google Apps is perfect for many small to medium Kiwi businesses, and has a long list of benefits. To see a full list of features click here, or view our Google Apps pricing options. You can also click to watch YouTube videos showing an overview of what Google Apps is, and how Google Apps enables online document sharing through cloud computing. 

Benefits of Google Apps for business

Proven cost savings

Google's web-based messaging and collaboration apps require no hardware or software and need minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses. End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar.

• A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 30% of the total cost of competing solutions.

Mobile email, calendar and IM access

With several options for accessing their information while on the go, employees can be productive with Google Apps even when they're out of the office. Google Apps supports mobile access on BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and many less powerful phones.  

99.9% uptime reliability guarantee with synchronous replication

We guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime.

With synchronous replication, your data and activity in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites is simultaneously preserved in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service.

• The Radicati Group found that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month.

50 times more storage than the industry average

Each employee gets 25 GB for email storage, so they can keep important messages and find them instantly with built-in Google search.

• Gmail is designed so employees can spend less time managing their inboxes, and more time being productive.
• Time-saving features like message threading, message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help employees work efficiently with high volumes of email. 

Information security and compliance

When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure. Google's information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application and network security, are focused on keeping your information safe. Google and many other customers trust this system with highly sensitive corporate data.

Businesses get these customizable security features with Google Apps:

• Custom spam and inbound mail filtering tools, powered by Postini, to complement powerful spam filters that automatically work with no up-front configuration.
• Custom outbound mail filtering tools to prevent sensitive information from being distributed, powered by Postini.
• Custom information sharing rules to determine how broadly employees are allowed to share with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites.
• Custom password length requirements and visual strength indicators to help employees pick secure passwords.
• Enforced SSL connections with Google Apps to ensure secure HTTPS access.
• Optional email archiving, up to 10 years of retention.

Full administrative and data control

Administrators can deeply customize Google Apps to meet their technical, branding and business requirements.

Integration options let you connect Google Apps to your existing IT infrastructure.

• Single sign-on API connects Google Apps to your existing authentication system.
• User provisioning utility and API connect Google Apps to your existing user directory system.
• Email routing and email gateway support let you run Google Apps alongside an existing email solution.
• Email migration utility and API let you bring mail from your existing email solution into Google Apps.

System branding and data ownership give Google Apps your look and feel, and ensures customer ownership of employee data.

• Custom user accounts on your compay's internet domain.
• Custom logo and colors in the applications.
• Contractual customer ownership of employee data.

Mobile device management

Google Apps Premier and Education administrators can manage Android devices with a centralided policy control panel.

• Administrators can now set policies for Android devices including features such as remote wipe, specifying password strength and complexity.
• Google Apps also features broad device management for Android, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry Devices through the browser without dedicated servers.

Helpful 24/7 customer support from Google

Google Apps is highly reliable and easy to operate, but support is available for administrators should you need it. Support options include:

• Self-service online support
• Email support
• Phone support for critical issues such as downtime

Google Apps also has a deep network of partners ready to help businesses with deployment, data migration, user training, system integration and custom application development.

A short overview of Google Apps

This short YouTube video explains what Google Apps offers. Your business may decide to use all of the functionality, or only the parts you need; such as access to synchronised email and calendar from your mobile, your desktop or the web. If you want to know more about how Google Apps can work for your business, talk to us on 0800 999 010 or email sales@digitalisland.co.nz.

Do cloud computing and online document sharing sound intimidating?

Watch this simple explanation of how Google Apps enables effortless and instant online collaboration.

Google Apps for Business Solution Pricing

 
Google Apps account & domain set up costs

A one off set up cost of $99 +gst includes:

• Set up of your Google Apps for Business account
• Update of your existing domain(s) for Google Apps
• Set up of all your user accounts, including aliases etc
• Adding your company logo to Google Apps web interface
• Forwarding client set up info to your IT provider

 
Google Apps monthly 'per user' costs

Google Apps per user account rental $8 +gst per user, billed monthly in advance, includes:

• Messaging tools - Google Email, Calendar & Contacts
• Collaboration tools - Google Docs, Sites and Video
• Synchronisation between all popular mail clients and smart phones
• Guaranteed 99.9%* uptime SLA and access to 24/7 phone and email support
• 25GB per user of storage

Set up desktop & smartphone clients and staff training

This task is performed by your companies IT support provider, or we can recommend one of our partner IT companies to do this for you. Please budget for 30 minutes work per client setup.

• Set up each user PC/Mac mail client to work with Google Apps
• Set up each user Mobile Smart Phone to work with Google Apps
• Train users how to access Google Apps web client messaging & collaboration tools

Migration of existing email, contacts & calendar data (optional)

This task is performed by your companies IT support provider, or we can recommend one of our partner IT companies to do this for you. The time required to complete this task depends on the amount of data to migrate, we recommend budgeting for 60 minutes work per client.

• Migration of existing email messages, contacts and calendar data to Google Apps user account
• Migration of mobile smartphone contacts to Google Apps user account

Google Applications for Business only available with Digital Island mobile services. Prices apply to a minimum 12 month term, are quoted in NZD and exclude gst. * Applies to Google Apps for Business users as defined in Google Apps terms & conditions.