14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft underlined its position at the start of this month in relation to Google offerings for enterprise customers, noting that the Mountain View-based search giant is not even meeting basic requirements in some cases.
The comment comes just after Google announced that it had inked a deal with the General Services Administration to power their email, after GSA dumped older versions of IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino software.
So obviously, some customers do find that Google can cater to their needs, despite the Redmond company’s point of view.
“There's no doubt that businesses are talking to Google, and hearing their pitch, but despite all the talk, Google can't avoid the fact that often times they cannot meet basic requirements,” Microsoft stated.
“For instance, in California, the state determined that Google couldn't meet many of their basic requirements around functionality and security.
“Rather than address deficiencies in their product by developing a more robust set of productivity tools, Google cried foul instead of addressing these basic needs.”
Microsoft and Google have found themselves competing more and more over the course of the years, with the two companies going after corporate customers and governmental organizations aggressively.
Of course, in each of the two giant’s view, the rival offerings from competitors simply do not measure up.
“Constraints such as inadequate product support, failure to provide a roadmap, poor interoperability with other line of business applications and limited functionality are all reasons why public sector organizations such the State of Minnesota and New York City have said "no thanks" to what Google is offering,” the software giant added.
Microsoft has a comprehensive lineup of enterprise solution for customers, and it stresses that the strongest aspects of its offering are related to being able to deliver solutions that are not limited to the Cloud, as Google’s are.
“Regardless of how organizations are thinking about the cloud, Microsoft provides a choice for their productivity needs; on premises, in the cloud or as a hosted solution. Google does not offer any such choice,” the company said.