Why choose Google Apps for Business over Microsoft 365

I was with a client today,at a point in the conservation I mentioned that Hapaweb is an authorized Google Apps Business reseller and all of a sudden he looked me straight in the eye and asked, why should I choose Google over Office 365? Here’s my answer.

1. Access to services from anywhere, anytime– A key benefit of the Google-hosted solution is that you can access email, contacts, and calendar from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection, anywhere in the world
2. Lower infrastructure costs — All your email will be stored securely on Google’s servers, so you’ll no longer need to maintain email servers on-site.
3. Ability to consolidate our platforms — You can eliminate redundancy by moving all of your email and calendar platforms to Google Apps.
4. Lower support costs — Because Google hosts the email and calendar services, there’s no more email client software to maintain on your computer.
5. Innovative solutions — You can leverage the ongoing creative and technical solutions of the Google Apps platform to provide your employees with powerful, easy-to-use tools for getting their work done.
6. Highly scalable environment — With Google Apps, your email capacity will grow automatically as your company grows, and you’ll avoid the complexity of internal systems.
7. More collaboration features — With Google’s next-generation applications, you can collaborate with colleagues, customers, and partners more easily and efficiently than ever before.
8. Instant messaging — Because Google Apps includes Google Talk, you can now implement an instant messaging system for our county employees.
9. Instant video messaging – Because Google Apps includes Google Hangout , you can now implement an video conferencing with your colleagues at no extra cost.
10. Security — Google Apps offers a true cloud model, and with this model comes the inherent security of the cloud. Google’s multi-layered security strategy keeps your information safe at each stage of data storage, access and transfer. Your data will never be lost because a user’s hard drive crashed, a computer was stolen or on site data was compromised by fire or floods. 

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