Gone Google Wants You To Switch To Google Apps

Google has been pushing Google Apps, especially to businesses, ever since it launched it. Google Apps is generally perceived as a competitor to Microsoft’s office suite, and Google is leaving no stone unturned in transforming that perception to a reality. The latest effort by Google on this front is Gone Google – an online calculator which shows you, after performing some calculations, that how much you’ll save by switching your business to Google Apps.

Microsoft isn’t sitting idle either. Recently it launched Office web apps suite to take on Google Docs, but lets focus on Gone Google for the moment. Like all Google products, its interface is quite simple. When you visit the site, you are asked to enter your company’s name, as you see on the screenshot below.

I entered the name “My firm” and clicked on lets begin button. It then asked the number of employees. I entered the number 10.

Once the employee number is submitted, it starts showing different savings slides one after the other. It includes things like access from anywhere (since Google Apps is on the cloud), on mobile, better email storage and spam management, better communication through integrated email, voice and video chat and much more.

The following two screenshots are the part of various slides shown.

And finally, it allows you to share the results it in the form of PDF or a poster, as you can see below.

Google does make a lot of assumptions in the process and hence you need to check if the individual results apply to your firm.

So, check out Gone Google and see if you would like if your business to make a switch to Google Apps.