LTech, an enterprise partner of Google, has released a new control panel for Google Apps with bells and whistles to make managing the suite easier for IT. In addition to general cloud services LTech has a useful series of modules for enhancing Google Apps, such as a utility for backing up Google Docs. While Google has attempted to beef up its guides for Apps, LTech's panel is a working solution for making large scale changes in an enterprise environment.
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One of the hallmarks of Google Apps is its simplicity for the business user. But end use simplicity and painless administration are two very different things. This goes double for enterprise-class deployments with thousands of users.
Google doesn't rely as heavily on a partner ecosystem as Microsoft and IBM do. But LTech has still been successful providing services and tools for augmenting Apps. Thus far they've focused on secondary functions like importing and backups, but the Power Panel they released this week targets core functions in everyday management of Apps in the enterprise.