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Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Business) is a suite of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software tools and software offered on a subscription basis by Google. It includes Google’s popular web applications including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. While these products are available to consumers free of charge, Google Apps for Work adds business-specific features such as custom email addresses at your domain (@yourcompany.com), at least 30 GB of storage for documents and email, and 24/7 phone and email support. As a cloud computing solution, it takes a different approach from off-the-shelf office productivity software by hosting customer information in Google’s network of secure data centers, rather than on traditional in-house servers that are located within companies. According to Google, more than 5 million organizations around the world use Google Apps, including 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies. ==History== * February 10, 2006 - Google launched a Gmail for Your Domain test at San Jose City College, hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses and admin tools for account management. * August 28, 2006 - Google launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of apps for organizations. Available for free as a beta product, it included Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and the Google Page Creator which was replaced with Google Sites. Dave Girouard, then Google’s vice president and general manager for enterprise, outlined its benefits for business customers: “Organizations can let Google be the experts in delivering high quality email, messaging, and other web-based services while they focus on the needs of their users and their day-to-day business."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Launches Hosted Communications Services )〕 * October 10, 2006 - An edition for schools, known as Google Apps for Education, was announced.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Announces Education News at Educause )〕 * February 22, 2007 - Google introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, which differed from the free version by offering more storage (10GB per account), APIs for business integration, and a 99.9% uptime service-level agreement. It cost $50 per user account per year. According to Google, early adopters of Google Apps Premier Edition included Procter & Gamble, San Francisco Bay Pediatrics, and Salesforce.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Introduces New Business Version of Popular Hosted Applications )〕 * June 25, 2007 - Google added a number of features to Google Apps, including mail migration, which allows customers to transfer existing email data from an IMAP server. A ZDNet article noted that Google Apps now offered a tool for switching from the popular Exchange Server and Lotus Notes, positioning Google as an alternative to Microsoft and IBM. * October 3, 2007 - A month after acquiring Postini, Google announced that the startup’s email security and compliance options had been added to Google Apps Premier Edition. Customers now had the ability to better configure their spam and virus filtering, implement retention policies, restore deleted messages, and give administrators access to all emails.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Adds Postini’s Security and Compliance Capabilities to Google Apps )〕 * February 26, 2008 - Google introduced Google Sites, a simple new Google Apps tool for creating intranets and team websites.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Sets Its Sites on Google Apps )〕 * June 9, 2010 - Google launched Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a plugin that allows customers to synchronize their email, calendar, and contacts data between Outlook and Google Apps.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar )〕 * July 7, 2010 - Google announced that the services included in Google Apps—Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk—were no longer in beta.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) )〕 * March 9, 2010 - Google opened the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store for third-party business applications that integrate with Google Apps, to make it easier for users and software to do business in the cloud. Participating vendors included Intuit, Appirio, and Atlassian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Open for business: the Google Apps Marketplace )〕 * July 26, 2010 - Google introduced Google Apps for Government, an edition of Google Apps designed to meet the public sector’s unique policy and security needs. It was also announced that Google Apps had become the first suite of cloud applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introducing Google Apps for Government )〕 * April 26, 2011 - Nearly five years after the launch of Google Apps, Google announced that organizations with more than 10 users were no longer eligible for the free edition of Google Apps. They would have to sign up for the paid version, now known as Google Apps for Business. A flexible billing plan was also introduced, giving customers the option of paying $5 per user per month with no contractual commitment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Helping small businesses start and manage Google Apps for Business )〕 * March 28, 2012 - Google launched Google Apps Vault, an optional Electronic discovery and archiving service for Google Apps for Business customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps )〕 * April 24, 2012 - Google introduced Google Drive, a platform for storing and sharing files. Each Google Apps for Business user was given 5GB of Drive storage, with the option to purchase more.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introducing Google Drive, the newest member of Google Apps )〕 Observers noted that Google had now entered the cloud storage market, competing with players like Dropbox and Box.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Drive joins the battle of the cloud )〕 * December 6, 2012 - Google announced that the free version of Google Apps would no longer be available to new customers. * May 13, 2013 - Google increased the Drive storage quota for Google Apps customers. Google combined the 25GB on Gmail and 5GB on Drive, increasing it to 30GB total per user that can be used across all Apps products including Gmail and Google Drive.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bringing it all together for Google Apps customers: 30GB shared between Drive and Gmail )〕 * March 10, 2014 - Google launched the Google Apps Referral Program, which offers participating individuals a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user they refer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introducing the Google Apps Referral Program: Share a better way of working with customers, friends and networks )〕 * June 25, 2014 - Google announced Drive for Work, a new Google Apps offering featuring unlimited file storage, advanced audit reporting, and new security controls for $10 per user per month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Drive for Work )〕 * September 2, 2014 - Google Enterprise, the company’s business product division, was officially renamed Google for Work. “We never set out to create a traditional ‘enterprise’ business—we wanted to create a new way of doing work,” explained Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman. “So the time has come for our name to catch up with our ambition.” To reflect this larger change, Google Apps for Business was renamed Google Apps for Work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introducing Google for Work (the artist formerly known as Enterprise) )〕 * November 14, 2014 - In the free edition of Google Apps secondary domains are not supported. The free edition of Google Apps only supports domain aliases.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Product Forums )〕 * October 2015 - Changing the primary domain (i.e., swapping primary and secondary domains) becomes possible using one of Google APIs in all editions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Google Apps for Work」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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