02/21/2012 — I.T. Link today announced it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools. Dan Doucette states his main focus will be on introducing people to how Google Apps can increase productivity and provide better collaboration. “People just spend way too much time wading through e-mail and we’re going to show them they don’t have to do that anymore,” said Dan Doucette.

“The Google Apps Reseller program will help us enhance the value of Google Apps for our current and new customers,” said Dan Doucette from IT Link.  “Google Apps for Business offers a broad set of powerful tools that will allow us to show our customers how they can get more done and do so with simplicity.”

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Google Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, they can share files and collaborate in real-time, keeping versions organized and available wherever and whenever users work.

The Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps for Business for their customers. I.T. Link Maine received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integrating Google Apps into their customers’ business operations. I.T. Link is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific needs.

Google, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video are trademarks of Google Inc.

Back to Google Sites, the integration of Google Docs with Google Sites simply blew my mind. It’s obvious that this is the direct competitor to Microsoft’s Share Point except in my opinion it’s much better.  I immediately thought of a solution that would help I.T. Link and a company we work with mange projects better and also provide a location where users can go to track the progress of our projects as well as access all of the files associated with the projects we have going. Specifically, we do a large amount of Price updates which involves many spreadsheets from multiple vendors and in addition to that we maintain a separate sheet that holds information such as when the pricing for individual vendors was imported and completion date. Google Sites allowed us to put all of this information in one easily accessible private location. For this particular company they are a Google Apps business user which means we could structure the access to this site based on user. The direct integration of Google Sites with Google Docs is awesome and we’ll be recommending this to all of our clients.

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I.T. Link helps Tri-State with the following services:

Microsoft SQL Database Administration
Microsoft Terminal Server Administration
Crystal Reports Development
Network Administration
ERP Administration/Enhancements