We’ve been using Google Apps for our team here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It has been seamless in use with our blackberries, and outlook on our computers.

The ability to share calendaring and documents has made this the best decision for our team. And yes, the cost is unbeatable!

Sean Murphy, Rofo – San Jose Office Space

I use Top Producer. *blush*

I have hated it for years but didn’t know what else to use. This video stream has helped immensely. I was about to start using Outlook but this helped me rethink that just a bit.

I’ve been using Google Apps (thx Loren) and still need to work on the filter process but I’m getting there. I also need to finish moving my contacts into my account.

I love, love the calendar. My assistant can access it and my husband can access it. I just started thinking about setting up my company’s calendar for all my agents to access. It’s color coded and I love that it syncs so easily to my Blackberry. That one feature, accessibility, makes all the difference in the world to me!!

I’m getting a little more tech savvy – one slow step at a time.

1. http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358
2. http://www.nuevasync.com/

Dustin: keyboard shortcuts save my wrists much mousing: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594

Google Apps is good and I have set it up for many of my clients. Google apps works good with blackberry from what i have heard. I do not like having to use 3rd party utils to sync up windows mobile with Google Apps.

Kevin,

Either way to really find out if Google Apps is for you, you have to set it up and try it.

I’m gonna have to disagree with Loren here… I’ve been using Google Apps email (the hosted version for business), for a while now and even set up multiple clients on the service and no one has looked back. It’s infinitely easier to customize and google does a great job giving admins access to the backend where you can set up email accounts, share documents, share calenders, and a bunch of other things that you’d have to be a coder to do with exchange.

It really is much easier to set-up and configure and the fact that the price is free makes it pretty darn difficult to imagine that I’d ever go back to outlook.

Also, be weary of comparisons between gmail and Outlook, but instead look towards the google apps version of gmail: http://www.google.com/a/ which gives you just about all the flexibility of outlook with a much easier to manage interface!

Yes it could but I didn’t like it.
The syncing of outlook/exchange is FAR above anything else out there.

The syncing of outlook/windows mobile/iPhone/blackberry/palm from the exchange server just can’t be matched. When using exchange and syncing to multiple computers/phones it just can’t be beat when everything is on every device you own including a Mac with Outlook or entourage

It just works. Even Jobs himself acknowledges the great job that Exchange can do, thats why it’s on the iPhone 2.0

I tried going to gmail and I just didn’t like it. That doesn’t mean you won’t like it. It just wasnt for me. I’ve been using Exchange for 11 years now. and for the price I pay i will not dump it

wouldn’t/couldn’t gmail take the place of all this stuff?