You need email, calendaring and shared docs; Google Apps for Work is the go-to suite.
Acompli was backed by $7.3 million from Redpoint and others for its mobile email app designed for a professional user base who need better tools for managing email, calendaring and file sharing while on the go.
Los Angeles isn't the first government to bring their e-mail, calendaring, document sharing and chat applications to the cloud with Google Apps.
And some early Apps users have even questioned the security of the suite, which includes e-mail, calendaring, document sharing and chat applications.
Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the United States, is far from the first government to go with Google Apps to bring their e-mail, calendaring, document sharing and chat applications to the cloud.
Groupware primarily means calendaring, which denotes shared schedules.
We lost some flexibility, but it solved some needs for shared calendaring.
It offers a full-blown suite of products like shared calendaring, contacts, shared bookmark, IMAP client, pretty much you name it.
On the calendaring side, Google is possibly the best-situated with Google Calendar and Google+, which together could make for a very seamless event sharing experience (one of the things we considered seriously for Plancast was deep personal calendar integration, but a sufficient platform for it simply wasn't available).
Examples include web-based email and calendaring services provided by Google or Yahoo, online productivity platforms like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365, online file storage and sharing platforms like Dropbox or Box.net, and large-scale application development and data processing platforms such as Google Apps, Facebook Developers Platform, and Amazon Web Services.
