Google Apps

Google Apps are a suite of web-based messaging and collaboration applications that Google hosts on their own servers. Google provides these applications as a “service,” rather than as software to download and install. To access these applications, you simply use a web browser on a computer that’s connected to the Internet.  

Google Apps provide: 

• Lower infrastructure costs
• All your email is stored securely on Google’s servers, so we’ll no longer need to maintain email servers on-site.
• Ability to further consolidate email platforms
• We eliminate duplication of services by moving to one email, calendar and file sharing solution providing students, faculty and staff with state of the art tools.
• Lower support costs
• Because Google hosts the email and calendar services, there’s no more email client software to maintain on your computer.
• Innovative solutions — We can leverage the powerful collaboration tools of the Google Apps platform to provide our community with easy-to-use tools for sharing information and getting work done efficiently.
• Highly scalable environment — With Google Apps, our email capacity continues to grow automatically as DCDS grows, and we avoid many complexities, risks and future costs.
• Access to services from anywhere, anytime – Google Apps are designed to operate in cyberspace and is functional with any computer or mobile device with an Internet connection, anywhere in the world;
• Security and Survivability – Google’s security resources are world-class and far outpace the resources that any single education institution could ever provide. Google Apps offers a strong and extensive security infrastructure that has passed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement on Auditing Standard 70. Google data centers provide redundancy of services and duplication of data across large geographical areas making them resilient to common disaster scenarios.
• State of the Art features — With Google’s next-generation applications, faculty, students and staff operate in an environment of information collaboration. Google is constantly innovating new applications and capabilities.