11 September 2007
Google has teamed up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target corporate customers with its range of desktop applications in a bid to reduce Microsoft domination.
CapGemini runs the desktops of more than a million corporate workers and be will providing its customers with Google applications such as email, calendar, spreadsheets and word processing. Google Docs word processing and spreadsheet service allow several people to work on one document and see changes in real time.
CapGemini is partners with Microsoft for its new Vista operating system and IBM for its Lotus Notes system, but adding Google is a vote of confidence in the company's applications. CapGemini is already installing 'Google Apps' in its first major corporate customer.
Microsoft is an important partner to us as is IBM,
said the head of partnerships at CapGemini's outsourcing business, Richard Payling,
In our client base we have a mix of Microsoft users and Lotus Notes users and we now have our first Google Apps user. But CapGemini is all about freedom, giving clients choice of the most appropriate technology that is going to fit their business environment.
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