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IT companies and technology entrepreneurs in Nigeria have been provided
the opportunity to become authorized resellers of Google Nigeria. This
announcement was made by the Business Development Manager for English
speaking West Africa, Mrs Lola Masha.
According to Google Nigeria, as authorized resellers, IT entrepreneurs
will be able to sell, customize and provide technical support services for
Google Apps for businesses.This opportunity provided by Google Nigeria
will ensure that young IT entrepreneurs in Nigeria will create new streams
of revenue for their businesses as well as become promoters of cloud
computing in Nigeria.
Lola Masha explained, “Google is looking to partner with upwardly mobile
IT companies and entrepreneurs with a passion for technology and a strong
interest in evangelizing IT solutions to Nigerian businesses. Cloud
computing solutions make collaboration and information sharing easy,
helping people connect more effectively and work more efficiently. This is
a unique opportunity for forward looking businesses to be a part of the
new enterprise paradigm of real-time business collaboration and
information sharing in the clouds."
Nigerian IT entrepreneurs/businesses interested in partnering with Google
are advised to send an e-mail to mailto:ssa-apps@google.com,
ssa-apps@google.com indicating their interest. Preference would be given
to young emerging companies with a global outlook, a strong culture of
professionalism, deep knowledge of on-premise messaging technology and a
familiarity with Google products. More information is also available at
www.google.com/a.
About Google Apps for Business
Google Apps for Business, is Google's suite of messaging (email, calendar,
instant messaging, groups), collaboration (Google docs, sites, video for
business) and security solutions (spam-filtering, virus protection,
archiving, encryption) that brings simple and powerful communication tools
to organizations of any size - all hosted by Google to streamline setup,
minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. The solution will be
customized for the business' domain (e.g
name@mybusiness.com).
Google’s web based messaging and collaboration apps are cost effective as
they do not require hardware or software. They are also require minimal
administration thereby saving valuable time and costs to businesses.
End users can use the familiar
Microsoft
Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to
Gmail and Google Calendar. A leading research firm found that Google Apps
is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.
The solution also provides 50 times more storage than the industry average
with each employee getting 25 GB for email storage, so they can keep
important messages and find them instantly with built-in Google search.
Gmail is designed so employees can spend less time managing their inboxes,
and more time being productive. Time-saving features like message
threading,
message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help
employees work efficiently with high volumes of email. Google also
guarantees that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time,
so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about
system downtime. With synchronous replication, your data and activity in
Gmail,
Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites is simultaneously preserved
in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve
your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another
data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service.
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