Google Apps Standard vs. Premium

Google Apps has made a recent splash as a cost-effective, cloud computing apps for email and messaging, document storage and collaboration, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations.  Google Apps come in two flavors for businesses: Standard and Premium. 

The Standard edition is free, ad-supported with basic features and a 7GB email storage limit.  The Premium edition costs $50/user per year and has many more features like smartphone support, live tech support and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Regardless of which edition you choose, you can run your entire organization on Google Apps and keep your domain name (i.e., yourdomain.com). Here's what you what you get with each edition.

Standard	Premium
Free, ad-supported	$50/yr per user
no Outlook Sync	Syncs with Outlook calendar, email, contacts
7.3GB email storage	25GB email storage
no SLA	99.9% uptime SLA
no SmartPhone support	SmartPhone support
no archiving	email archiving up to 10 years (Postini)
50 user limit	no limit
no tools	Email migration tools
no routing or email gateway support	Email routing and email gateway support
online self service support only	phone and email support from Google

Other Google Apps Premium extras include Google Groups and Videos (similar to YouTube), forced SSL encryption, custom password strength requirements, and other features.

AXICOM is a Google Apps Reseller and we provide setup, migration and on-going support services.  For more information or to learn how your organization can benefit with Google Apps, contact us at (818) 865-9865 or info@axicom.net.