Desktop Solutions - Google Apps™

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Capgemini is the first major professional services vendor to enter the Google Enterprise Professional Program and bring Google Apps Premier Edition to its mature and well-established desktop services practice, allowing clients to leverage years of its experience in incorporating new applications into existing IT infrastructures and ensure unrestricted movement between a Microsoft Office, Exchange/Outlook and Google Apps environments.

What Is Google Apps?

Google Apps is a web-hosted suite of personal productivity and collaborative tools. These state-of-the-art tools yield the ability to share, review and edit data in a collaborative environment on the web, which accurately matches the needs of large enterprises with multiple facilities, global operations and distributed staff.

In this way, Google Apps not only enables cost-containment but also ensures better employee productivity and stimulates collaboration, both on local and global levels. For a detailed description, learn more on Google’s website.

Capgemini’s Proposition

The Capgemini proposition is simple, but powerful:

  • Drive new business value by focusing on collaboration and providing people with the right applications for their job
  • Reduce desktop support costs by leveraging Capgemini’s global mutualized support network
  • Get started faster than traditional solutions. Capgemini can have users provisioned and working in under 30 minutes when using Google Apps. 

What The Analysts Say

On 11 September 2007, Gartner analyst Ben Pring issued a report entitled “Google Strengthens GAPE Offering Through Capgemini Tie”.

Enterprise Management Associates also issued a report on Capgemini’s support of Google Apps “Bridging the SaaS-Integrator Gap: Capgemini Adds Google Apps to Desktop Solutions”. Download as PDF.