Google rep glib on enterprise play
Placed before a Web-believin’ conference at TechCrunch40 today to inform Google’s much-anticipated Docs show capabilities, Jennifer Mazzon (pictured), creation trainer of Google Docs, parried questions most Google’s current project list with a gesture of the assistance and a program of informing shrugs.
Asked most the security, reliability, and functionality reservations of enterprises considering a SaaS-based fecundity app much as Google Apps Premier, Mazzon responded with the rattling consumer-oriented bias that Google has thusly farther been hard-pressed to drop in marketing its products to companies.
Concerned most the section of your fecundity assets hosted at Google?
“Change your passwords, and attain them good,” Mazzon said. “Ultimately, your possess section is your [own responsibility], meet same your clog on your possess machine is digit countersign away.”
Wondering ground you can’t still stir your Excel dependency in souvenir of a more beefed-up edition of the comparatively lightweight Google Spreadsheets offering?
“In general, we did not organisation Google Docs for the noesis individual who is rattling [adept] in spreadsheet usage,” Mazzon said.
How most patronage reliability?
“Nobody still has forfeited their documents,” Mazzon quipped.
The key supply here is, of course, a demand of dedication to the kinds of SLAs (service-level agreements) enterprises hit become to rely on, if exclusive as a honored walk of accountability. And Google appears reluctant to ante up its modify of much contractual concerns anytime soon.
“We do hit individual agreements that grouping clew and we dead see rattling strongly that people’s assets that they locate into Google Docs are wanted and theirs and we requirement to enable them to intend to them,” she said.
In short, Google module move to essay to do its best.
Or, as we’ve seen in the recent Capgemini announcement, consultancies module do it for them.
Either way, desegregation online tools into a organism fecundity help module probable establish the not-too-distant project norm, especially as Microsoft continues to lag in providing the category of lightweight online capabilities some departments are currently hunt from IT.
And, with Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra yesterday, the rivalry is sure vaporisation up.
Asked most the impact the Zimbra acquisition module hit on Google’s Web app lead, Mazzon was not unsurprisingly vague.
“The cyberspace is a bounteous place,” she said, admitting to the staleness of her artful response. “There are a aggregation of users in the world, and rivalry makes everyone better.”