Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
If you have opted to use Microsoft Exchange Online as your mail and calendar server you have made a wise choice. You no longer have to worry about server management or spam/antivirus protection.
Entourage with Microsoft BPOS
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
Work/life balance is getting more and more important. Employees are getting tired of being stuck in traffic while traveling to the office.
Cloud solutions such as Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS allow you as an employer to get creative and find ways of keeping valuable people in your company, not necessarily in your office.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
Google has added another new feature!. Now you can share bookmarks via list. No more emailing bookmarks to and fro.
To use Lists go to Google Bookmarks on google.com/bookmarks or click “Manage All” in your Google Toolbar.
Select the links that you want to share and click “Copy to List”. By default lists are private but once saved, you can share them or even publish your lists online. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
I was amazed when I read this statement from the guys from Socialwok: “…We have since added close to 4000+ new businesses on Socialwok and got great coverage of Socialwok by the media. The Google Apps Marketplace way of installing, deploying and managing business applications related to Google Apps is truly disruptive…”.
Google is making it really easy for Apps administrators to add new applications to their domain by simply selecting the applications in the domain Dashboard. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
Despite the fact that I personally don’t like people sending me emails with graphics in their signatures, most of them are horrible anyway, almost all our clients ask us how to add graphics images –typically company logos– to their email signatures in Google Apps.
Simple answer: you CANNOT! Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 20:51
Some companies want to use a non-existing word as their company name and hope that eventually their name becomes a verb.
Examples? Think Google or Twitter and people using phrases like ‘… I googled him…’.
Although we are ambitious in our cloud computing endeavors, we are also quite realistic about the likeliness of a cloud solutions integrator becoming a household name. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 10:32
GNU founder Richard Stallman, the free software campaigner, recently stated in an interview with The Guardian that web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time.
Stallmann claims that cloud computing is the latest fashion and marketing hype, Nothing more, nothing less. We should not use web applications to do our computing is because we lose control and it is just as bad as using a proprietary program. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 10:33
Working as a consultant I have many times been confronted with IT departments in large corporations.
IT departments obtain, and in some cases, retain power in the organization by morphing minor business demands into seemingly complex IT problems that need additional resources and budgets. Now with the financial crisis budgets –all budgets– are under close scrutiny but will this create the conditions for moving applications and services ‘ into the cloud’ in order to get more bang for the buck? Keep Reading…
