Google Apps for Business, Organisations,
Education and Government
Middle East Infoway is an authorised partner offering Google Business Apps in Dubai, UAE. We can also offer these services to businesses based anywhere in the world including the GCC Countries, Middle East and Africa.
NOTE: All details below sourced from Google Business Apps official webpage
What is Google Business Apps?
Google Apps is a suite of office tools providing online email, calendar, documents and other business collaboration tools based on a "Software as a Service" platform. You can think of it as your office in the cloud. All of the tools will be accessible from anywhere using any kind of device including computer, laptop, mobile phone, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android tablet and smartphone.
This will help you to reduce IT costs, manage information more effectively and enable employees to collaborate wherever they are.
Middle East Infoway is the best technology partner to deploy and implement Google Apps for your business. We provide training, integration, cloud application development and full support.
Products, Tools & Features
Gmail
More than email
More than email
Work fast, save time
Gmail is designed to make you more productive. 30GB of storage shared across Google Apps and the option to purchase more means you never have to delete anything. Powerful search lets you find everything, and labels and filters help you stay organized.
Connect with people
Your inbox isn't just about messages, it's about people too. Text, voice, and video chat lets you see who’s online and connect instantly. See your contacts’ profile photos, recent updates and shared docs next to each email.
Pick an email address that matches your business’s name or web address: you@yourcompany.com.
Gmail works natively on popular mobile phones such as Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone and can check and send email on any device with a web browser.
The Offline Google Mail app for Chrome lets you read and write email without an internet connection. Your drafted messages are sent and your inbox is synced the next time you connect to the internet.
Google Apps for Business comes with up to 30GB of email storage for every user, and you can buy more as needed. This means you can save all your important emails and you won’t spend time cleaning out your inbox to free up space.
Find exactly what you’re looking for by searching across all your email, labels, and Docs right from your inbox with fast search powered by Google’s search engine.
Create labels to categorize, organize, and browse your email. Build powerful filters to automatically label and file new messages based on rules you choose.
When you get an email that looks like it’s about an event, you can add it to your calendar with a single click. Date, time, attendee, and description info is added automatically.
If someone else helps you manage your inbox, you can make this even easier by delegating your email to that person. This allows another user to read, send and delete messages on your behalf.
If you use a desktop email client, such as Microsoft Outlook®, Apple Mail, or Mozilla Thunderbird, you can keep using it with Gmail. Gmail offers POP and IMAP support as well as Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.
Do international coworkers, partners or vendors send you emails in languages you can’t read? Gmail detects emails that are not in your native language and can translate them with a single click.
Gmail is designed for security and reliability with features like two-step authentication, attachment viewing in the browser, encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your email, built-in disaster recovery, spam filtering and sender authentication.
Calendar
Stay in sync with your team
Stay in sync with your team
Stay organized and on schedule
Organize your day with Calendar and get event reminders on your phone or in your inbox. Attach files or docs to your event so you have the right materials when your meeting starts.
Find time with your team
Calendar sharing makes it easy to find time with the people you work with and the smart scheduling feature suggests meeting times that work for everyone.
Publish calendars to the web
Create an event calendar and embed it on your website or set up appointment slots so customers can choose the best time for them.
Google Calendar makes it easy to schedule events and can automatically send invitations and track RSVPs through your email.
Sync the built-in calendar on popular mobile phones such as Android and iPhone with your Google Calendar or access your calendar from any device with a web browser.
The Google Calendar app for Chrome lets you view your schedule and respond to invites, even when you don’t have an internet connection. Your calendar and RSVPs will be synced the next time you connect to the internet.
If someone else helps you manage your calendar, you can make this even easier by delegating access to that person. This allows another user to create events, respond to invites and manage your schedule.
Google Calendar makes it easy to work with people in other timezones. Features like timezone conversion makes sure your calendar time zone follows you when you travel and customizable working hours reminds your colleagues not to schedule meetings in the middle of the night.
If you use a desktop calendar application, such as Microsoft Outlook®, Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird, you can keep it in sync with Google Calendar automatically.
You can add a widget to the side of your calendar that can show current availability for the people you work with most. This way you know who’s available for a quick call or chat and who’s tied up in a meeting.
Google Calendar is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your calendar appointments, built-in disaster recovery and fine-grained sharing, which lets you share your calendar with people in and out of your organization.
Get custom reminders in your inbox or on your mobile phone with all the details about your upcoming meetings and events, right when you need them.
Drive
Work together better
Work together better
Access your files anywhere
Google Drive gives you access to your work from anywhere, across your Mac, PC, mobile devices and on the web. Simply download Drive on your Mac or PC to sync files from your computer to the cloud. Update a file on one device and changes are automatically saved to Drive and your other device, so you have the most up-to-date version of your files wherever you need them.
Bring your work to life
Share files or whole folders with individuals, your entire team or even customers and partners. In the Docs, Sheets and Slides editors multiple people can work on the same document at the same time.
Buy what you need & grow flexibly
Start with up to 30GB of included storage for each of your users. Need more? For as little as AED 15/month for 20GB, administrators can centrally purchase and manage up to 16TB (Yes, that’s 16,000 GB!) of additional storage for each user. View pricing
Docs
Create rich documents with images, tables, equations, drawings, links and more. Gather input and manage feedback with social commenting.
Sheets
Keep and share lists, track projects, analyze data and track results with our powerful spreadsheet editor. Use tools like advanced formulas, embedded charts, filters and pivot tables to get new perspectives on your data.
Slides
Create beautiful slides with our presentation editor, which supports things like embedded videos, animations and dynamic slide transitions. Publish your presentations on the web so anyone can view them, or share them privately.
View over 30 file types right in your browser, including images, HD videos, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files, even if your device doesn’t run the file’s original software. Save files from Smartsheet, DocuSign, or SlideRocket and other web apps directly to Google Drive, and launch those apps by opening these file types from your Drive.
Stop worrying about what folder you put which doc in and find exactly what you’re looking for with fast search powered by Google. Search over content you’ve created and docs that have been shared with you.
With Google Docs, it’s easy to import your existing work and convert it from most common text, spreadsheet and presentation formats so you can edit and share. Optical character recognition (“OCR”) even lets you import editable text from PDFs and images.
If you need to, you can easily download any of your docs to the most common text, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing formats or export them to PDFs on your hard drive.
You can print any of your docs right from your web browser or even from your mobile phone or tablet using Google Cloud Print.
Do more than just view your docs on your mobile. Make edits and share with others in real time from your Android device or any mobile web browser.
Use powerful search capabilities to find what you need quickly. You can search with keywords and filters to locate any file, and even search for objects in images or text in scanned documents.
Keep track of all the changes that you and your team have made to each doc. Detailed revision history lets you look back at each doc after each set of edits and you can always revert to an previous version if you like.
Build a form with the straightforward forms editor and collect data from colleagues or customers. All the responses are recorded in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to analyze and share.
Create and work together on visuals with the drawings editor and then use the web clipboard to insert them into existing documents or presentations.
Giving your documents consistent formatting is easy with custom styles, which let you define the default styles for things like titles, subtitles, body text and more.
Get a jump start on your work by using a pre-built template. Or, create customized templates with your company's colors and logos and share them privately in your organization.
Google Spreadsheets include tons of built in functions for all the standard finance, statistics, mathematical and database needs you’d expect, as well as some unique functions that help you pull data directly from the web.
Google Spreadsheets makes it easy to create standard charts like line graphs, scatter plots, pie charts, bar charts and more. You can also capture more data in unique dynamic chart types like timeline charts, motion charts and more.
Google Spreadsheets includes powerful data analysis tools such as pivot tables, filters, data validation and solver.
Google Docs is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, real-time file save, simultaneous replicated storage for your documents, built-in disaster recovery and fine-grained sharing controls that let you share your work with the right people.
Hangouts
Messaging, voice and video meetings
Messaging, voice and video meetings
Join the meeting from anywhere
With Hangouts you can start or join an HD video meeting with up to 15 participants from wherever you are. Whether they're across town or on the other side of the world, Hangouts brings everyone together into the same room.
Keep the conversation going
Use Hangouts for quick chats or ongoing conversations. You can message with text and images, chat one-on-one or with a group and the whole conversation is saved and synced across all your devices so it's easy to pick up where you left off.
Save time while you stay connected
Take fewer trips and punch in fewer dial-in codes. Hangouts can save you money, and more importantly, save you time by letting you connect face-to-face with the people you need to work with from wherever you are.
Works with the apps you use most
Hangouts is connected to other apps like Gmail, Calendar and Drive so you can start a quick conversation from your inbox, add a video meeting to a calendar event, or work on a document together during the call.
Works on your favorite device
Hangouts runs right in the web browser so it works from whatever computer you're using and the Hangouts mobile app is available on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
Bring Hangouts to the conference room
With Chromebox for meetings you can bring HD Hangouts to your conference room. Set up in minutes and easily manage all your conference rooms from the cloud.
Sites
Shared workspaces for your team
Shared workspaces for your team
Easy to build
Build project sites without writing a single line of code. It's as easy as writing a document. And, to save even more time, you can choose from hundreds of pre-built templates.
Simple to organize
Use your team site to organize everything from calendars to documents to presentations to videos. Built-in Google-powered search makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for later.
Quick to share
Share your site with your team, your entire company or even a customer or partner with the click of a button. You control who can view and who can edit your site and you can always adjust settings later.
Google Sites uses an intuitive editor for creating and updating sites that makes it as easy as writing a document. Drop in all sorts of gadgets from documents to videos to images to shared calendars and more.
Get a jump start on your site with one of the pre-built templates or create a privately shared template gallery for your business with sites customized for your needs.
Project and team sites are only useful when you can find the information you’re looking for. Built-in search powered by Google’s search engine makes it easy and fast to find the pages you need.
Google Sites lets you set different access lists for different pages of each site. You could use this to let a partner or vendor see only the relevant part of your project site or to built an entire intranet for your company with the right access for each division.
Google Sites comes with loads of storage. Your company gets a quota of 10GB + 500MB for each user at your company for attaching files. Documents, calendars and videos embedded from Google Docs don’t count against this quota.
Achieve even more customization with Google Apps Scripts or by creating your own HTML or JavaScript gadgets for your site.
Google Sites is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, real-time file save, simultaneous replicated storage for your sites, built-in disaster recovery and fine-grained sharing controls that let you share your work with the right people.
Vault
Add archiving and e-discovery to
Google Apps
Vault is optional and adds archiving,
e-discovery and information governance
capabilities for an additional $5/user/month
Add archiving and e-discovery to
Google Apps
Vault is optional and adds archiving,
e-discovery and information governance
capabilities for an additional $5/user/month
Retention policies
Gmail works on any computer or mobile device with a data connection and offline support lets you keep working even when you’re disconnected. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on a plane, your email is there.
Email and chat archiving
Your email and chat messages are archived and retained according to your policies, preventing inadvertent deletions.
E-discovery
Be prepared for litigation and compliance audits with powerful search tools that help you find and retrieve relevant email and chat messages.
Legal hold
Place legal holds on users as needed. Email and chat messages can't be deleted by users when they're placed on hold.
Export
Export specific email and chat messages to standard formats for additional processing and review.
Audits
Run reports on user activity and actions in the archive. Searches, message views, exports and more are shown.
Google Apps Vault allows you to reduce risk and costs associated with litigation and compliance audits. For an additional $5/user/month, you can add capabilities that help your business be prepared for these situations.
A single archive for email and chat messages where the data is managed in-place. Governance policies are applied directly to the data store, eliminating the need to duplicate data in a separate archive which helps reduce the risks associated with data movement and spoliation. A robust audit trail provides complete visibility across the archive.
Email and chat retention policies allow businesses to define standard retention policies for Gmail and chat messages. Once a message reaches the end of the retention period, disposition is automatic to ensure compliance with retention policies. The automated process ensures that no data subject to a legal hold is deleted and reduces the risks of spoliation and noncompliance. Message holds help ensure email and chat messages can be preserved beyond their standard retention period for a legal matter or an investigation.
eDiscovery tools allow authorized users to search through the archive for data that may be relevant to a specific matter or investigation. Google search algorithms can search domain wide, across large amounts of email in the archive and return results quickly. From the search results, authorized users can define and manage collections of message search results and collaborate with others to manage them. Email can be exported from the archive for further review and processing.
Google Apps Vault is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your messages, built-in disaster recovery and sharing controls that let your users collaborate securely on matters.
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Apps comes with even more handy tools
Apps comes with even more handy tools
Chrome for Business*
Chrome was built from the ground up to deliver the best experience for Gmail, Docs, Calendar and more, and supports the most advanced functionality such as offline support and desktop notifications.
Quickoffice
Quickoffice for Google Apps works on your Android, iPhone and iPad giving you a way to create and edit Microsoft Office files when you need to make a quick edit on the go and don’t have access to costly software.
