Google partners with IT firm to grow Enterprise Apps business

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Google partners with IT firm to grow Enterprise Apps business

by Chris Gilmer Sep 10th 2007

A leading worldwide IT consultancy and outsourcing business with control of over 1 million corporate desktops has added Google Apps to its technology arsenal.

CapGemini [PDF] will start to target the desktops of over a million corporate workers with Google's spread of online office applications that consist of Email, Calendar, Docs and Spreadsheets. Slashing IT costs, and saving corporations countless dollars. CapGemini is currently a Microsoft Vista and Lotus Notes partner, but given the search giant's efforts with their "accessible anywhere" applications and storage, CapGemini's clients will have yet another option for the most appropriate technology that fits into their business goals. With Google's applications, users can allow for complete collaboration watching changes in real time.

Google is rumored to be launching a Presentation application into its suite of applications shorty, rounding out its professional offerings. Something for Microsoft to watch out for. CapGemini will collect a £25 license fee charged by Google for the use of its applications.

[via Guardian]

Tags: capgemini, corporate, docs, enterprise applications, EnterpriseApplications, google, ibm, microsoft, office applications, OfficeApplications, presentation, spreadsheets, web2, web2.0

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