Google Docs offer real-time editing, sharing controls, and seamless compatibility, enhancing your company’s productivity suite and eliminates the need to collaborate with attachments.

Whether your business uses Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, iWork or a different productivity suite, employees shouldn’t have to struggle with their software to collaborate. Google Apps makes collaborating with those software applications work more smoothly.

Traditional “collaboration” falls short in today’s workplace

Sharing with attachments is inefficient:

• Attachments can be too large to send over email, and take up inbox space.
• Coworkers with incompatible software can’t even open your attachments.
• It’s easy to lose track of which version of an attachment you should work on.
• Someone gets stuck reconciling everyone’s asynchronous edits.

File shares can create workflow bottlenecks:

• Everyone gets locked out of a file when one person forgets to check it back in.
• Coworkers with incompatible software can’t even open shared files.
• Teams need IT support to set up new file shares.
• It’s difficult to browse or search across multiple file shares.

Google Apps smooths the Collaboration process:

• With Google Apps – Employees can start a project with software like Microsoft Office, and use Google Docs to share files with coworkers for collaborative editing.
• Everyone accesses the same online copy of the file in Google Docs, so there are no attachment compatibility problems, inbox storage quota issues, or versions to reconcile.
  
  When the group is done editing, you can keep the file in Google Docs, or export it back to the original format.
• Google Videos can enable employees to be more personal and impactful than traditional office documents can. Employees can securely share and watch internal videos with no special hardware or software.
• Google Sites enables easy sharing of knowledge. Free-form text, file attachments, videos, photos, and other types of information can be organized all together with G Sites.
• Let employees contribute: No coding or system expertise is required to update pages or create new internal sites, so anyone can add to shared knowledge.
  
  Let them build collaborative sites faster with templates for project workspaces, team sites, intranets and more.
  
  It’s so intuitive that every employee can contribute; no special technical skills are required so coworkers can create rich sites without burdening IT for support. Best of all, Google search is built-in, so employees can find company information instantaneously.
  
  Presentations can then be presented and published through the web and be delivered to remote audiences, while documents and spreadsheets can be published internally for employees to view.
• Make useful information accessible – Create an intranet or let project teams build sites to capture and share departmental knowledge.