Google’s tough sell to Corporate America

This is an informative article by Yi-Wyn Yen. Discussed are the pro’s and con’s of using Google Apps for large enterprises.

Enterprises have reservations (cons) for a variety of reasons including:

• Security
• Confidentiality
• Downtime
• Converting software is time consuming
• Cost
• Advanced features

Reasons they may consider switching to Google Apps (pros)

• Education edition is free for .edu’s
• Ability to work in team’s
• Collaboration and sharing
• Working across company boundaries
• Redundancy (info is shared on many servers)
• Lower cost
• No backups
• No IT person needed

I’d be interested in hearing from any companies that are using Google Apps. If you’re not using Google Apps, what are your companies concerns about switching?