Google Admin Panel Upgrade

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This is a very welcome piece of news from Google regarding Apps Admin Panel. We are glad to see they are investing more time on this with upgrades to better serve IT environments.

Using your Google Apps Admin credentials head over to this new url http://admin.google.com  Finally an easy way to land into the domain panel for your account. 

 

We have been assigned as Admins to many domains and find that we typically able to train a user at each organization on the use of the admin panel fairly easy without having the user to be an official IT person.  It’s almost better to have a Human Resource person or Administrative type learn the Admin Panel.  They are often the people in the know who needs to have access to what.  For this reason we really like the Google Apps experience, another user friendly tool that enables businesses to manage their own IT.  Google has also opened the API for developers and we found a company called FlashPanel that has a pretty slick replacement Admin Panel.  Their product does a great job for domains with many users, like bulk editing using google spreadsheets.  One of the drawbacks is that your data is on another server basically duplicated and synced, depending on how you feel about having more than one company with your google data, it’s a nice platform.  However I think Google is starting to beef up their Admin Panel and may render FlashPanel unnecessary.

 

 

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