Google Apps for business
Google has given us an opportunity to work smarter and faster with these business apps. All things business can be done at the tip of your finger, you just a click away to manage your business. Business is getting simpler now and all these apps allow you to focus on the things that really matters. Check out this list
1. Gmail
Improve productivity
Gmail is designed to make you more productive. 25GB of storage means you never have to delete anything, powerful search lets you find everything, and labels and filters help you stay organized.
Access your email from anywhere
Get your email wherever you work – from any web browser, mobile phone, tablet, or even offline. Gmail for business even works with Microsoft Outlook® and offers a 99.9% uptime SLA.
More than just email
Your inbox isn’t just about messages, it’s about people too. Text, voice, and video chat are integrated straight into your inbox and let you communicate more effectively.
2. Google documents
2.1. Google Docs
Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here’s what you can do with Google Docs:
- Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document
- Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff
- Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access
- Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document
- View your document’s revision history and roll back to any previous version
- Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file
- Translate a document to a different language
- Email your documents to other people as attachments
2.2. Google Sheets
Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work with other people. Here’s what you can do with Google Sheets:
- Import and convert Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data to a Google spreadsheet
- Export Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data, as well as PDF and HTML files
- Use formula editing to perform calculations on your data, and use formatting make it look the way you’d like
- Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet
- Create charts with your data
- Embed a spreadsheet — or individual sheets of your spreadsheet — on your blog or website
2.3. Google Slides
Google Slides is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here’s what you can do with Google Slides:
- Create and edit presentations
- Edit a presentation with friends or coworkers, and share it with others effortlessly
- Import .pptx and .pps files and convert them to Google presentations
- Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a .txt file
- Insert images and videos into your presentation
- Publish and embed your presentations in a website
3. Hangouts
Hangouts is an instant messaging and video chat platform developed by Google, it is intended to replace three messaging products that Google had implemented concurrently within its services, including Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Hangouts, a video chat system present within Google+. Google has also stated that Hangouts is designed to be “the future” of its telephony product, Google Voice, and integrated some of the capabilities of Google Voice into Hangouts
4. Sites
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.
5. Vault
Google Apps Vault is an add-on for Google Apps that lets you retain, archive, search, and export your organization’s email for your eDiscovery and compliance needs. Vault is entirely web-based, so there’s no need to install or maintain any software.
With Google Apps Vault, you can:
- Search your domain’s email data
- Place user accounts (and related data) on litigation hold to preserve email data
- Manage related searches and litigation holds under a single container, called a matter
- Share matters among authorized users
- Export search results in standard file formats
- Save your search queries
- Set email retention policies for your domain
6. Google+
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus) is a social networking and identity service owned and operated by Google Inc. It is the second-largest social networking site in the world, having surpassed Twitter in January 2013. It has approximately 359 million active users. As of May 2013, it had a total of 500 million registered users, of whom 235 million are active in a given month. Google has described Google+ as a “social layer” that enhances many of its online properties, unlike conventional social networks generally accessed through a single website.
7. Chrome
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008.
Net Applications has indicated that Chrome is the third-most popular web browser when it comes to the size of its user base, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.StatCounter, however, estimates that Google Chrome has a 39% worldwide usage share of web browsers making it the most widely used web browser in the world.
In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome’s source code as an open source project called Chromium,on which Chrome releases are still based. Notable components that are not open source are the built in PDF viewer and the built in Flash player.
8. Drive
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. Files shared publicly on Google Drive can be searched with web search engines.
Google Drive is the home of Google Docs, a suite of productivity applications that offer collaborative editing on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
9. Quickoffice
Quickoffice is a freeware productivity suite for mobile devices which allows users to view, create and edit text files, presentations and spreadsheets. It consists of Quickword (a word processor), Quicksheet (a spreadsheet) and QuickPoint (a presentation program). The programs are compatible with Microsoft Office file format, but not the OpenDocument standard.
Quickoffice is commonly used in smartphones and tablets
10. Calendar
Share your schedule
Scheduling is easy if you know when everyone is free or busy. Let your co-workers, family, and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. Learn how to share your calendar.
Get your calendar on the go
Access your calendar when you’re away from your desk with two-way syncing to your phone or tablet. You can use a mobile version of Google Calendar made for small screens or a calendar built in to your phone. Learn how to sync your calendar with a mobile device.
Never forget another event
Stay on schedule using reminders. You can choose to be notified by email or receive text messages directly to your mobile phone. Learn about reminders and notifications.
Send invitations and track RSVPs
Invite other people to events. Guests can RSVP to your events by email or via Google Calendar. Learn how to invite guests to your event.
Sync with your desktop applications
If you use Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird, you can sync Google Calendar with these desktop applications.
Work offline
Know where you’re supposed to be even when you don’t have Internet access. With offline access, you can check your calendar wherever you are.
