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After the recent partnership of Google with CapGemini to help in promoting Google Apps for Organizations some major companies like Microsoft and Zimbra have been criticizing Google Apps for its shortfalls.

While I agree that Google Apps has its own shortcomings, but I see no reason Google Apps can’t have a mass adoption by the enterprise sector. Here are some reasons why Google Apps is the right choice for most Enterprise Users.

• 1. Eliminate email hassles instantly. No more outages, lost mail, spamming, phishing, viruses, security breaches.
• 2. Reduce costs. Eliminate the hardware, software, maintenance, upgrades, and services associated with your current environment.
• 3. Enable collaboration for everyone, from anywhere. Access and collaborate on all your documents and spreadsheets from anywhere in the world via a web browser.
• 4. Get everyone on the same page. Bring all your key information together in one central, easy-to-use, searchable location.
• 5. Reduce IT overload. Google handles all technical aspects, freeing up your team to focus on other projects, and allowing you to reduce your online communication and collaboration costs to one low monthly fee.
• 6. Instantly increase the productivity, knowledge, teamwork, and communication capabilities. Provide instantly accessible tools, including Web-based business class email, online document management, online calendars, blogs, wikis, etc. to your business and your team.
• 7. Make partnering and out-sourcing more efficient. Create a platform that can seamlessly support virtual ad-hoc teams (without the intervention of an “administrator”), thereby quickly reducing your costs.
• 8. Increase your peace of mind. With Google’s hosted, fast, safe, and secure file storage, you never have to worry about losing critical business information. You also never have to worry about scalability – Google apps will support any number of users who can be added at any time.
• 9. Get automatic versioning. Any change to any information in a Google document or spreadsheet creates a new version of the information. Even if a document or spreadsheet is being authored by many users simultaneously, none of the information will ever get lost. If any change is unacceptable, the contents of it can be quickly rolled back to any of its previous states with a couple of clicks.
• 10. Take advantage of continuous improvement. All Google Apps updates are immediately distributed to all customers. This means that you always have the latest and greatest features immediately available for use in your organization – without doing a thing.
• 11. New hires are already using this technology. People entering the workforce today have lived and breathed the web since they were in high school. If you don’t provide company endorsed solutions, they will end up using tools that are available on the open Internet until you do.

So afterall every Office Suite, be it Office or Zimbra or even Google Apps, they have there own pros and cons. But in the end I feel that Google Apps is the best option for startups to store and manage information.