| 1. Typical email hosting providers are often small shops | | | | With Google Apps Premium, you can directly integrate |
| who lack the redundancy of larger hosting providers. If | | | | with Outlook to sync your mail, contacts, and calendar. |
| you aren't with someone who is advertising in print | | | | You can share calendars and more. |
| magazines, you are probably with a small shop. The | | | | 5. Access from anywhere. Some email hosting |
| problem with relying on a small shop is that they lack | | | | providers offer web based access to your email, but |
| the funding and technical expertise to keep their | | | | none offer this same access to your email, contacts, |
| servers redundant, up-to-date, and secure. With | | | | calendar, documents, and more! When you use |
| Google Apps Premium, you get a 99.9% uptime SLA | | | | Outlook with Google Apps, the email, contacts, and |
| and that is backed by Google. | | | | calendar are all synchronized with Google and |
| 2. Antispam usually costs extra with typical email | | | | accessible by any web browser on any computer. |
| hosting providers. Sure, some will include some of the | | | | 6. Google Docs, included with Premium Edition, offers a |
| open source products that are available and they do | | | | compelling alternative to Microsoft Office for small |
| some basic filtering, but with Google Apps Premium, | | | | businesses. Users can collaborate and change the |
| you get Postini. One of the leading email security | | | | same document instead of having to email back and |
| products available on the market and it's included at no | | | | forth. |
| additional cost. | | | | 7. Resource scheduling is another great feature. You |
| 3. Storage, storage, storage. Typical companies will | | | | can reserve a conference room and everyone will |
| give you only a small amount of storage space to hold | | | | see that it is in use. You can schedule meetings and |
| your email. 1&1, at time of writing, gives only 2GB | | | | invite other users in your company to attend. |
| of mailbox space. A few years ago, that could have | | | | 8. Easily build a website with Google Sites. To see one |
| been considered a lot, but not anymore. The limits are | | | | in action, check This site was built using Google Sites in |
| constantly being hit and companies have to spend | | | | record time! |
| more money buying additional space. Google Apps | | | | 9. Built-in instant messaging. If you choose to enable for |
| Premium comes with 25GB of storage PER USER. | | | | your company, you can instant message using Google |
| This is far above 1&1 and 50% more than the | | | | Chat. |
| industry average. | | | | 10. 24/7 customer support. Period. |
| 4. Google Apps Premium offers many additional | | | | If your company is currently using POP3 or IMAP with |
| features as well and this is where they really start to | | | | an email hosting provider, you simply must look into |
| shine. With typical email hosting, you have your email, | | | | Google Apps Premium. The benefits are countless and |
| maybe a calendar, and contacts in your local email | | | | they are ever-growing. |
| client. No one else can see this information, only you. | | | | |