Google goes after SharePoint with new enterprise tools
Google announced a pair of new services on Monday meant to help businesses access information and share it internally, similar to what Microsoft's SharePoint product offers.
A new Springboard app gives employees at companies subscribed to Google Apps for Work a unified search box for finding just about anything, including files in Google Drive, emails in Gmail and contacts.
The company also unveiled the beta version of a revamped Google Sites, aimed at letting less sophisticated users inside a business build websites that can be used to share information internally. The new Sites gives users templates and an easy-to-use editor. The editor is supposed to help create good-looking sites for communicating things like what a particular team is up to at a company with far-flung offices.
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