With more than 1 million business customers using Google Apps, Google decides to broaden its cloud computing ecosystem by letting other businesses resell its Google Apps Premier Edition suite of messaging and collaboration applications. Now vendors will be able to resell GAPE for $40 per user, per year, a 20 percent discount from Google's usual fee. GAPE includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites and other apps. Google hopes its reseller program will interest customers looking to test SAAS as an alternative to on-premises applications from Microsoft and IBM.
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Google Pitches GAPE to Resellers
by Clint Boulton
How the Program Works
Google provides sales and marketing, product training, support and other tools to resellers, which can market and promote GAPE to customers, setting commercial terms and billing them directly.
Resellers Can Provide Services
Services may include, but are not limited to, e-mail and data migration; user education and training; custom development and data synchronization tools; desktop and mobile clients; and interoperability setup.
Reseller Program Landing Page
Fill in company information and you're on your way to begin reselling GAPE.
Solution Provider Site
A setup training page lets companies learn how to test and deploy Google Apps to customers.
Partners Already Reselling GAPE
Have strong pro-SAAS (software as a service) sentiments? Google wants you to join its reseller program.
Reseller Buy-In
Google's new reseller program has 50 partners out of the gate. Any interested business can begin reselling GAPE in March.
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With more than 1 million business customers using Google Apps, Google decides to broaden its cloud computing ecosystem by letting other businesses resell its Google Apps Premier Edition suite of messaging and collaboration applications. Now vendors will be able to resell GAPE for $40 per user, per year, a 20 percent discount from Google's usual fee. GAPE includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites and other apps. Google hopes its reseller program will interest customers looking to test SAAS as an alternative to on-premises applications from Microsoft and IBM.