has many advantages
It offers a free (and ad-free) platform of email, productivity and collaboration tools that enable faculty, staff and students to work together and learn more effectively.
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Google Apps Education Edition
provides the power of a first-class email system for your domain. License costs are ZERO for Education establishments and non-profit organisations.
With Google Apps you can…
- Get customised email for your domain (i.e. name@yourdomain.com) with
- Share and manage your calendars online with Google Calendar
- Create team websites as easily as creating a document with Google Sites
- Collaborate easily and simply with documents, presentations and spreadsheets with Google Docs
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- Reduce costs
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Traditional business email and collaboration tools can be costly to purchase, set-up and maintain.
With Google Apps everything is hosted online, which means your business doesn't require additional hardware or software. Using Google Apps minimises the need for maintenance and upgrades, as this is all managed by Google, which reduces your IT costs even further.
Many schools and universities just like yours have made big savings using Google Apps...
- Be more efficient
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Google Apps goes beyond traditional email
and gives you numerous applications to help you work efficiently with people inside and outside of your business.
- Google Docs - web-based documents, spreadsheets and presentations let you share your work easily inside and outside of your business. Google Docs enables you to work collaboratively on one version of your documents as well as giving you anytime access to your work.
- Google Sites - create an intranet without the need for IT support, quickly and simply with Google Sites. Let project teams create and share sites to make sure information is shared throughout your business.
- Google Video - share videos within your business while retaining security of your data, great for sharing things like training videos, or team announcements.
- And more reliable
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99.984% Uptime
Google Apps measures its uptime (The % of time that its services are available) as 99.984% and is aiming for 99.99%. It has been shown to be far more reliable than other email solutions. Additionaly, Google does not exclude planned maintenance from these figures unlike other vendors. As of 2011 all maintenance is considered downtime, planned or otherwise.
This equates to 32 times more reliable than other email systems and 46 times more available than Microsoft Exchange. In real terms this is about 7 minutes a month for GMail and about 3.8 hours downtime a month for on site email solutions.
