{"id":658152,"date":"2013-05-15T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=645540"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:47:21","slug":"google-apps-set-for-a-communication-upgrade-with-deeper-google-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658152","title":{"rendered":"Google Apps set for a communication upgrade with deeper Google+ integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may not be any new hardware announced at Google I\/O, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any surprises. Multiple sources have told us that Google is going to bring Google+ into Google Apps as a back-end communications system, allowing you to talk to co-workers while simultaneously working on a document.<\/p>\n

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Sources say that as cloud-base collaboration is becoming more and more important, Google is looking to introduce Google Circles and other concepts like Google Hangouts to its Apps users. You can already use Google+ within Google Apps for Business<\/a> as a collaboration and sharing tool, but it doesn’t extend into the apps themselves.<\/p>\n

We are told that Google Talk would give way to a new kind of a “unified messaging” product where focus is less on voice and more on data and video. More details will arrive later: make sure and check out our live blog here<\/a> for the official news when it arrives.<\/p>\n

These new Google+ social features are a good way to help reinvent the enterprise apps. The company has already been making some changes Like checking for sharing permissions for a Google docs when you email a link to people), but we will see something bigger in a few hours.<\/p>\n

A good application of Google+ would mean company wide circles which would in turn allow easy communication and sharing of docs. This would put them in competition with Yammer, HipChat and other such products.<\/p>\n

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