Why wait for 2010?

Google Apps and OffiSync deliver Microsoft’s future today

As the arms race between Google and Microsoft escalates, a heated competition between Google Docs and the impending Microsoft Office 2010 has set some high expectations for the product’s release.  The actual competition, however, has essentially consisted of Microsoft’s frantically racing to catch up with a product, Google Docs, that has facilitated an unprecedented degree of real-time collaboration and multi-location accessibility.  In other words, while Microsoft will take another year to catch up, Docs users have already benefited from these features for 2 years now.

Also, let us not assume that Google Docs will remain unchanged until the release of Office 2010.  The most obvious problem with these Docs vs. Office debates is that they pit an unreleased, future version of Office against a version of Docs that is up-and-running today.  Who ends up on top by the actual release is anyone’s guess, but while some columnists and critics list the current deficiencies of Docs, if the past is any indication of the future, Office may have an entirely new list of things to imitate by 2010.

In any case, the showdown will happen when it happens.  While we wait, though, end-users and enterprises are benefiting from the document-sharing paradigm in Google Docs today.  For those of you who have already migrated to Google Apps, but find that for whatever reason, your company needs to use Microsoft Office for certain functions, a sync between Office and Docs seems like the perfect, yet unattainable, solution.  However, this is exactly what we are offering you:

Cloud Sherpas has proudly forged a partnership with OffiSync.  What this means for you Office 2003 or 2007 users is that you can sync your Office files with Google Docs.  Not only are you storing your data on Google’s cloud, but you can also take advantage of the Google Docs sharing paradigm within the Microsoft Office environment today.  This demo has some really cool details:

Like what you see?  Contact us to experience this unique sync between Google Docs and Microsoft Office.