Google Apps Marketplace Now Has YouTube Channel
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
The Google Apps Marketplace was announced a few weeks ago, with fifty partners offering applications that further extend the base Google Apps functionality beyond key features such as Gmail and Docs. While this was a major announcement, the YouTube channel that has been announced today is a tool for which many of these companies that are working with Apps can get their message across.
That means communicating to users that the Google software suite can go above and beyond what Microsoft or IBM can offer in a business suite. For example, check out MindMeister, which looks to challenge the expensive Microsoft Visio:
All of the applications in the partner YouTube Channel can be thought of as “extensions” to what Google Apps already offers. Many companies have found that they can save money in software licensing and IT administration by switching over to Google. That’s because a per user license for Apps is $50 per year. The partner applications in the Apps Marketplace vary in terms of cost structure.
But when you compare Microsoft Visio to MindMeister for example, Visio costs over $500 for a license. MindMiester? It’s only $9/month per user. Meaning that if a certain user doesn’t like it or stops working with the software you can cancel that license if you want.
Compared to some of the costs in the enterprise market for software, some of these Apps Marketplace partners are offering companies a pretty good deal.
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MindMeister
29. Mar, 2010
Thanks for the kudos!
The response to our introduction to the Google Apps Marketplace has been outstanding, and we’re already seeing some very creative uses from Google Apps users.
In case you missed it, we’ve recently released the newest version of MindMeister, 4.0, complete with new map themes, off site data backups, stats and reports for administrators, etc.. http://bit.ly/cUulpd
Thanks again!