Google Apps Marketplace launches

March 11, 2010 |

The Google Apps Marketplace will let Google Apps users access business apps for project management, billing and accounting, travel management, and other services.

Google Apps, which Google offers in free and paid versions, includes Gmail; Google Docs word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications; and Google Sites publishing software.

Google Apps has picked up more than 2 million businesses and 25 million users who opt to let Google host their business data so they don't have to maintain on-premises solutions such as Microsoft SharePoint or IBM Lotus Notes on their own servers.

However, collaboration applications are only a part of the SAAS software ecosystem. As the success of Salesforce.com shows, there is a burgeoning market for enterprise applications based on the cloud.

To wit, the Google Apps Marketplace allows Google Apps administrators to purchase integrated third-party cloud applications and deploy them to their domains.

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