The list is based on research on more than 100, 000 Google Enterprise end users to see what apps are downloaded the most in a corporate domain.
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David Girouard, head of Google Enterprise, said foreign governments are concerned about data stored in the U.S., and whether it might be subject to control over the U.S. Patriot Act.
"We started enterprise search with the ability to search a company's Intranet, then added the ability to go into databases, collaboration systems, and applications, now this, " said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google enterprise search.
Both Microsoft and Google have enterprise versions of their products, used by companies that want to overlay proprietary data on maps.
As use of Google profiles, and the uptake of Google products (like Search Appliance) in the enterprise, increase Google could become the glue that binds enterprise social networks with the web.
According to Google, thousands of enterprise customers have already purchased and deployed the Google Mini, a small server that companies, governments and schools can use to search through their own systems.
Then, make Google Plus available for the enterprise and bundle it with Google Drive.
Google has an enterprise search business that largely relies on its web search engine.
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Google's enterprise search product will also likely be able to trawl through these applications before the end of the year.
"The Mini has been a success beyond what we could have imagined, " said Rajen Sheth, product manager of Google's enterprise division.
Google's enterprise multiple, the ratio of market cap plus debt to operating earnings (Ebitda, that is), is 33, compared with an industry average of 18 (where Yahoo is).
Over 600 of Google's 12, 000 employees work in the enterprise group, and Google now has over 10, 000 corporate customers.
Particularly in the enterprise, Google is pushing its Chromebooks as an alternative to Windows laptops.
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Google is a growing enterprise vendor and compared to the likes of IBM and HP they are still in kindergarten.
The former VP of Apps and president of enterprise at Google, Girouard announced in March that he was leaving the company to work on Upstart.
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Despite their low key approach, Google clearly takes the enterprise seriously, and it has shown in the past how its passion, resources, and smarts can lead to great things.
In addition to enterprise search, Google also began selling an online applications product last May.
Autonomy is a high priced enterprise product that Google is challenging through its Google Search Appliance.
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Google hitting all the marks on enterprise with their 99.9% uptime messaging plus their customer satisfaction ratings are increasing.
Investors have been selling shares of RIM on the notion that Apple and Google will prevail as they enter the enterprise market currently ruled by RIM.
Skype could also boost Microsoft in enterprise video tools to compete with Google, Cisco and others.
Enterprise search is one area where Google hasn't seen much competition from fellow Internet search titans Yahoo!
However, the enterprise business is a priority for Google, both as a channel for releasing new products and as a competitive arena for taking on Microsoft.
This is one reason why Apple and Google are finding it hard to crack the enterprise world, while uncool companies such as Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, and IBM rule them.
"We're quite committed to enterprise and cloud computing, " said Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt.
On Wednesday, Google is rolling out the fifth major version of its enterprise search appliance.
Google is consumer, SAP and Oracle are coming through the enterprise.
Based on sheer size, MNOs will always gravitate toward consumers, but operators hold a more significant advantage in the enterprise relative to OTT players such as Apple, Google and Skype due to an ability to own the network.
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By then Schmidt had separated the enterprise search business from ads and was thinking about how Google's loosely organized but collaborative and dynamic structure could be useful to older corporations.
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