Google launches 10 new business apps

Google has added 10 new business apps to its Google Apps Marketplace that the company says can offer immediate benefits to organisations.

“Instead of spending today patching operating systems, we invite Google Apps users to explore these new applications which can deliver immediate business value to your organisation,” says Google Apps Marketplace spokesman, Steven Bazyl, while poking fun at Microsoft’s ‘Patch Tuesday’.

Bazyl says that the single sign-on apps offer deeper data integration with Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Calendar to help users “work more efficiently, regardless of which app they happen to be using to get their job done”.

Google Apps administrators can install, evaluate and deploy the new apps “in only a few clicks”.

“Several of the new applications help you manage communications more effectively, from tracking contact with customers and partners to making your inbox more efficient,” he adds.

Here’s a list and description of each new app:

• Bantam Live is an easy CRM & team collaboration app to track contacts, prospects, deals and organise projects, tasks, and events. It Integrates with Google Apps and social networks to import/aggregate contacts.
• Etacts helps grow your relationships. The application and Gmail contextual gadget enable you to instantly find out who you talk to the most and who you’ve neglected.
• Organiser by OtherInbox helps cure email overload. It automatically organises low priority email out of the way, leaving your Inbox much smaller so it's easy to find the important messages from real people.
• Aprigo NINJA for Google Docs provides advanced access management controls for Google Docs, giving organisations greater visibility and control over how documents are shared within and outside of the company.
• Gliffy makes creating professional-quality flowcharts and diagrams simple, intuitively helping you turn complex information into attractive images everyone can understand
• Gminutes is your one stop meeting minutes management solution for professionally executing meetings. All you have to do is create your meeting space, add relevant people to it and you are good to go.
• Meetingmix helps you run meetings. It allows you to easily create agendas, take minutes, and share with attendees.
• ReachPeople provides easy group alert notifications for critical communications. Now, schools and businesses can send one or thousands of mass notification messages via voice, SMS text, or email.
• SiteKreator is an online service that allows anyone to instantly design, build and publish elegant, fully-branded, and interactive business websites.
• TheDeadline is an intelligent Todo-Manager. The system makes collaboration very easy and helps users focus on the most important tasks and keep an overview of large sets of todos.