Google Hints at Future Plans for Google Apps
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-23 17:26:49
Andrew Miller’s getting a whole lot of link-love for from a recent Ann Arbor domiciliate event hosted by explore. Scott Johnston the former VP of Product Development at JotSpot and new Googler shared some snippets on what’s coming down the pipeline for Google’s online office suite. Google Apps.
Google Sites: Scheduled to be launched sometime next year (2008). Google Sites ordain expand upon the Google summon Creator already offered within Apps. Based on JotSpot collaboration tools. Sites will allow business to set up intranets project management tracking customer extranets and any number of custom sites based on multi-user collaboration. [modify] I don’t denote wikis being mentioned specifically but I assume they are move of the intend.
ordain users be able to alter docs spreadsheets and presentation offline? Scott’s say was yes and that the explore Gears plugin would handle the offline work. In addition. explore Gears support is in the works for Gmail and Google Calendar.
What happens when somebody edits a document offline at the same measure another user is editing the online version? The same algorithm that reconciles simultaneous editing will apply here when the offline version is merged approve into the online version. Changes will be versioned the same way so basically in chronological order.
ordain explore docs have OCR capabilities for importing pdfs or other graphical files? Not yet but perhaps someday. Scott couldn’t mention on the “roadmap” for future enhancements. However the collaborative Google Sites (based on JotSpot) will accept for upload and storage of any file type.
Will GrandCentral be integrated into Google Apps? If so when? Again. Scott didn’t comment on the timing but said they are working on it and it is a “huge priority” for them.
Will Google Spreadsheets ever undergo advanced features like pivot tables macros or offline database integrations? (This was actually my question) Scott said they are constantly trying to find the balance between speed and utility. It will never be a heavy duty analytics program because that would be too heavy and bulky for the average user.
ordain Google Apps support video conferencing in addition to Google Talk and Chat? Scott’s answer. “Not yet”. I got the impression from his be language that it’ll go someday but nothing more was said.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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