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Google Apps highlights – 6/24/2011
June 24, 2011
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “
Google Apps highlights
" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.
There’s no slowing down as we head into summer. In the last couple weeks, we made improvements to Google Sync for iOS devices, streamlined collaboration in Microsoft® Office files, added mobile display options for Google Sites and welcomed many big organizations, including the state of Wyoming, onto Google Apps.
Search all email from iOS devices, and more
Google Sync brings your email, calendar and contacts to
four popular phone platforms
. Last Wednesday, we improved
Google Sync for iOS devices
in three ways. One, you can now search all of your Gmail from your iPhone or iPad, beyond just the messages stored on your phone. Two, you can accept, decline and edit calendar events from your device, and three, you can send email from a custom email address if you use Gmail’s “Send mail as” feature. This is useful if you like to manage email in Gmail, but want emails you sent to look like they’re coming from a school or business email address.
Paste images into Gmail messages
As of Monday, if you use the latest version of Chrome, you can now
paste images into Gmail’s compose window
right from your clipboard. If you copy an image from the web or another email, it’s a cinch to paste it directly into a message.
Improvements to Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
With
Google Cloud Connect
, you can collaborate with others simultaneously through Google’s cloud in Word, Excel and PowerPoint files without sending attachments back and forth. People told us they wanted a
faster way to open files with Google Cloud Connect
so on Tuesday we streamlined that process. Now you can open native Office files saved in Google Docs right from Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Mobile rendering for Google Sites
It’s important that you can be just as productive on your phone’s small screen as on a full computer display, so yesterday we made Google Sites work even better on mobile devices. You can now configure your sites to
automatically render for smaller screens
on Android and iOS devices, making the content much easier to read and navigate. In addition, you can also browse and search the sites that you manage through an interface that’s also been optimized for a mobile device’s smaller screen.
Who’s gone Google?
It’s been another bumper couple weeks with tens of thousands more organizations moving to Google Apps. This week, the
State of Wyoming
became the first to move all state government employees to Google Apps. Matt Mead, Governor of Wyoming, was on-hand for a “cable cutting” ceremony to celebrate the 10,000 user transition to the cloud, which was managed smoothly by deployment partner
Tempus Nova
.
In the private sector, all 8,400 employees at
The McClatchy Company
are “going Google” across the business’ 30 newspapers. The company is anticipating a stack of benefits from Google Apps, including standardization on a single email solution, simpler shared calendaring, improved collaboration even when mobile, significant cost savings and a level of service that they weren’t seeing from their historical provider, not to mention great employee enthusiasm for the IT group’s decision.
Even though it’s summer vacation, we saw many schools keeping busy by moving to Google’s cloud. A warm welcome goes out to the
Wisconsin K-12 school system
(900,000 users),
CSU Monterey Bay
(10,000 users) and the
Indian Youth Congress
(28,000 users). Schools will be able to enjoy even more Gmail storage now too; we’re bumping up the quota to
25GB for all education accounts
!
I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out the
Google Apps Blog
.
Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager
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