What Extra Features are in the Premium Edition

We often get asked the question do I need Google Apps Premium Edition when I can get the Google Apps Standard Edition for free

It is certainly a reasonable question and if the functionality of the Standard Edition is good enough for your business then there is no need to upgrade

However it only costs £33 per user per year to upgrade and you get what we consider to be the following essential features

• Integration with Datsite requires the Google Apps API - this is only available with the Premium Edition - if you want to integrate your calendar, email and contacts you need the Premium Edition. API is also used for the supplier product upload
• Business EMail Hosting - if you want to use Google Apps to host your business email then you need Premium Edition
• Service Level Agreement - Premium customers get a 99.9% uptime guarantee
• Storage - you 25 GB of email and document storage per employee compared to 7GB in the Standard
• Enhanced System Integration - iPhone, Blackberry and Microsoft Outlook interoperability
• Improved Security - custom spam and inbound mail filtering tools, custom outbound mail filtering tools, custom information sharing rules, enforced SSL connections and custom password rules
• Postini - email archiving services
• Google Groups - manage your own groups for email and acccess
• Google Video - upload and share videos
• Full administrative and data control