Google Apps For Business: A 2011 Trip Report

Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services Administration (GSA) and Los Angeles city government, four of eight Ivy League schools, and companies like Fairchild Semiconductor and Genentech running Google Apps, it's clear that Google has strong momentum with a product that can scale to the needs of an organization with more than 15,000 employees. Most IT professionals rethinking their collaboration platform should put Google on their shortlist of email vendors, but only certain types of businesses have the internal makeup to benefit from the entire Google Apps suite: web-focused, collaborative, and Internet-connected.