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Google in corporate desktop push

Capgemini is working with Google to focus on corporate customers with its range of desktop applications.

10 September 2007

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Capgemini will provides its customers with ‘Google Apps’ such as email, calendar, spreadsheets and word processing. Although Capgemini is Microsoft’s partner for its new Vista operating systems, the addition of Google Apps is a ‘vote of confidence’ in the company’s applications.

“Microsoft is an important partner to us as is IBM,”says 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.”

Capgemini expects customers to use the expensive Microsoft tools with cheaper and lower-spec Google Apps.

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