{"id":689,"date":"2011-06-29T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limetechsolutions.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:40:02","slug":"ms-exchange-or-google-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjarb.com\/limetech\/blog\/small-business\/ms-exchange-or-google-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Exchange or Google Apps for Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses are popping up everywhere. Even in this economy, the office space in the SoMa (South of Market) area in San Francisco is dwindling. Which makes me think that there is a need for reviews on email platforms. If you\u2019re going to start a business of any size, it\u2019s going to need an email service. Since email is a backbone service, it would be appropriate to assume that we want email, and everything assumed to go with it like calendaring, contacts, tasks, etc, to be available on every device we own. It\u2019s almost unacceptable for a device these days to not exchange email.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves us with a question. What service are we going to use to manage our email? As far as we\u2019re concerned, there are two major cloud hosted contenders for this service today: <a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.google.com\/\">Google Workspace<\/a> and <a title=\"Microsoft Exchange\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/exchange\/email\">Microsoft Exchange<\/a>. Now, I don\u2019t want to give anything away, but here are my thoughts. Being a Mac guy, I am not the biggest Microsoft fan. But, if there\u2019s one thing I can say Microsoft got right, it\u2019s Exchange. I used to work for Google, and I\u2019ve also set up Google Apps for a few clients. I\u2019ve seen what Google Apps can do from many perspectives. It\u2019s a great tool, but if you\u2019re running a business I must suggest MS Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Exchange supports many tools. Webmail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Shared Folders, and Delegation all exist on both platforms, but only with MS Exchange do you have the ability to be more granular and more connected. Take for instance, delegation. This is an important feature for anyone who\u2019s going out of town for an extended period, or anyone who has an assistant or secretary. With MS Exchange you can grant others fine-grained access to email, calendar, contacts, notes, and tasks. Which then becomes available to them in Outlook and on the Web. However, with Google Apps, delegation is available via web access. Note, though, that via Outlook there are privacy concerns that should be evaluated: No tracking in sent items, no mark as private, full access permissions are required.<\/p>\n<p>Another main concern between the two is Contacts. With Exchange, you can sync your contacts to your iPhone, Blackberry, Outlook client, etc, but with Google Apps there is only a limited contacts database available to you on the web. This limited database does not sync with Outlook or any of your mobile devices\u2026 This also means backing up your Google Apps contacts is a big pain!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, they\u2019re both great tools, but if you\u2019re looking for all around compatibility with a plethora of available devices, and you want to have a little more control over the accounts and their permissions, not to mention the ability to easily scale up, Exchange is the way to go&#8230;it just works.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LimeTech is a creative tech company with a focus on innovation and adaptive change. We use technical know-how, design skills, and deep experience in entrepreneurship to help companies advance their business goals. 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