14 DAY TRIAL // After the Mountain View-based company released Google Apps, the search giant started to be more and more attracted by the enterprise market, tending to develop more premium solutions. Today, the second product hits the market, Google Desktop for Enterprise representing an innovative solution that expands the power of the search engine to the offline companies. Basically, the Enterprise edition is offering the same functions as the freeware version but it also includes support that will help a company's employees use the product with ease. The Premium Support, currently valued at $20.000 per two years for unlimited users, will offer consultation, guaranteed response times and notifications of new versions.
"Previewing your desktop search results inside the browser helps you find the right documents, emails, and files that much more quickly. We've also increased security with warnings for web sites that might attempt to steal your personal information or install malware on your computer. For those of you who'd like to make Desktop for Enterprise available to a broader segment of your employees, we now support 12 different languages," Ryan Pollock, Google Enterprise, sustained on the official blog of the company.
Earlier this day, the company's employees announced that Google Desktop 5 is quite a famous application as it is available in most of the popular languages. Recently, Google released a Mac version of the program that allows Apple customers to use the tool along with Spotlight, a similar solution offered by Mac OSX.
If you're curios what the premium features provided by Google for a $20.000 price are, read the following lines provided by the search giant that represent the additions to the basic version:
- Guaranteed response times from Google Desktop experts - Access the Google Desktop for Enterprise support site for in-depth product technical detail - Membership to our Premium Support user forums where you can interact with fellow IT professionals at other companies deploying Google Desktop - Notification of all new Google Desktop releases, enabling you to test these new versions before deploying them company-wide