Saturday, March 31, 2012

Major Game Changer - eDiscovery for the SMB community!

 Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

Wednesday, March 28, 2012



Today we’re announcing the availability of Google Apps Vault (Vault) for Google Apps for Business customers. Vault is an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for managing information critical to your business and preserving important data. It can reduce the costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance actions. Businesses of all sizes need to be prepared for the unexpected. In today’s environment, using Vault to manage, archive and preserve your data can help protect your business. Litigation costs can really take a toll on a business when minor lawsuits can run up to many thousands of dollars, and larger lawsuits can cost even more. Significant litigation costs come from having to search and find relevant data, which is also known as electronic discovery (eDiscovery).
E-discovery can be part of virtually any litigation and requires you to search, find and preserve your electronic information such as email. Vault helps protect your business with easy-to-use search so you can quickly find and preserve data to respond to unexpected customer claims, lawsuits or investigations. With an instant-on functionality and availability of your data a few clicks away, Vault provides access to all of your Gmail and on-the-record chats and can provide significant savings to your business over the traditional costs of litigation and eDiscovery.



Additionally, Vault gives Google Apps customers the extended management and information governance capabilities to proactively archive, retain and preserve Gmail and on-the-record chats. With the ability to search and manage data based on terms, dates, senders, recipients and labels, Vault helps you find the information you need, when you need it. Vault gives management, IT, legal and compliance users a systemized, repeatable and defensible platform that will reduce the costs and risks of doing business. With just a few clicks, the business can access a service designed for security and providing auditable access to critical information.
Vault is built on the same modern, 100% web-based architecture as Google Apps. Unlike traditional solutions, it does not require a complex and costly IT environment, and can be deployed in a matter of minutes. Vault brings the security, ease-of-use and reliability of Google Apps to information governance. It can help meet the sophisticated requirements of large organizations and makes these advanced capabilities available to business of all sizes.
Google Apps Vault can be added to your Google Apps account for an additional $5 per user per month starting today, so contact our sales team or a Google Apps reseller if you are interested in signing up for Google Apps and Vault.
We hope that Vault, together with Google Apps, will make a difference to your business and provide the right solution to reducing risk and cost so you can focus on growing your business.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Merge cells vertically in Google spreadsheets

Merge cells vertically in Google spreadsheets

There are many times when you want to format your spreadsheets in a certain way to make your data easier to read and understand. Starting today, we’ve extended the merge functionality to let you create vertical merges across several rows of data.

In the spirit of the NFL season, let’s say you want to host a football tournament for your friends. To make it easier for them to cast their votes on the winning team, you organize the NFL teams by conference and division in a Google spreadsheet. Using vertical merges, you can assign headers to sets of rows. Simply select the set of cells you’d like to merge, then click on the down arrow next to the merge icon, and select Merge vertically.


In the NFL spreadsheet, you’ll see that some of the team names don’t fit on one line in the width of the cells of Column C.

To improve the formatting, select the cells across all the rows of teams in the AFC (rows 2-17) and 2 columns (C and D) and click Merge horizontally. You’ll have 16 merged cells that span 2 columns for better formatting.


After applying vertical merges to all of the conference and division headers and horizontal merges across the team names in each conference, you’re ready to share with your friends for the tournament!


To undo a merge action, select a merged cell and click Unmerge in the drop-down menu.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

New look for Google Docs and Sites now rolling out

New look for Google Docs and Sites now rolling out


Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:58 PM PDT



Previously available as an opt-in option, the new look for Google Docs and Sites is now rolling out to all rapid release domains. You’ll see clean menus and toolbars, prominent action buttons, and colorful presence that pops when you’re editing with others.



Some of the changes:

- We made it clearer that your document is always saved, by showing “Saving...” right after you make a change and then “All changes saved” once it’s fully saved.

- We added an icon to the Share button so you can tell if your document is shared at a glance.

- If you’re looking for options that were previously under the Share button (e.g. “Email as attachment...”), you can now find these in the File menu.

- By default, the documents list automatically fits a comfortable number of documents on your screen (large desktop monitors show more, smaller laptop screens show fewer). We also added density options to give you more control.



If you’re not quite ready for the new look, choose Help > Use the classic look (or in the gear menu, for some products). We’ll support the classic look for at least a few more weeks, but encourage you to use the new look.



Release track:

Rapid*



Editions included:

Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education



Languages included:

All languages supported by Google Docs and Sites

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Here's the latest from Google Apps


Google Apps News
April 2010


New customers join the cloud revolution, plus Google launches Google Apps Marketplace:

Newcomers to Google Apps:
•Simple ways to get more out of Google Apps: The Mind Research Network taps Google’s online documents, video, and archiving and encryption for 200+ research scientists and staff (Free webcast).
The Mind Research Network
•An advanced infrastructure, lower costs in two months:City of Orlando becomes one of the first cities in America to switch to Gmail (Free webcast).
City of Orlando
•No fooling around: On April 1, the same day Google re-named itself Topeka, the State Library of Kansas in Topeka got serious with a move to Google Apps.
Google Apps + third-party cloud applications = big win!
•New! Google unveils the Google Apps Marketplace, a new online storefront that enables Google Apps administrators to discover and purchase integrated third-party cloud applications and deploy them in their domains.
•New! Hot on the heels of the Google Apps Marketplace release, Google announced a new Marketplace YouTube channel showcasing videos from Marketplace vendors.
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All the best from Google, and stay tuned!

Monday, April 12, 2010

Email summary of Google Spreadsheet forms results - Automatic. Strengthens the case to Go Google!!


Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:40 AM PDT

If your username is being collected when you submit to a form created in Google Spreadsheets, you now have a new option to also receive an email summary of your responses for your reference.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Spreadsheets

How to access what's new:
At the bottom of a Spreadsheets form when the username is being collected, enable/disable the checkbox 'Send me a copy of my responses' to receive the summary email.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Phybridge Uniphyer Customer's 1st year anniversary! = 0 Complaints and very pleased.


Happy 1st Anniversary to IPC Financial Services
Anniversary of seamless deployment
"We deployed IP phones using the UniPhyer over a year ago and have not had a single service complaint or quality issue since." 
                                          Reggie Alvares, VP of Operations, IPC

                                                                                        
Congratulations to IPC Financial on zero dropped calls since deploying IP Telephony over 365 days ago using the UniPhyer! Installing the Phybridge UniPhyer is a piece of cake!