Building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 - Looking through Google offerings

Recently I have been seriously looking at various services that is being provided by Google. It is interesting to see how Google is shaping up its vision in the enterprise IT space. At least its services can run an medium size business.

I looked at the Google Docs and Spreadsheets ( in fact I am typing this blog using the Google Docs and then directly posting to my blog) . It provides all the functionality a normal user uses for day to day business activity. At the same time, it leverages the power of Internet to share the document to a group. Same is the case with the spreadsheets. I also started looking at other services that Google provides and started thinking how all these services can be combined meet enterprise requirements. At this point, these services looks as if they are stand alone services , but I am sure Google would be combining these functionality to make an comprehensive application for businesses.

Google Enterprise Application group offers a set of services either as hardware and software bundled appliance or SaaS option. Some of the existing Google Services can be provided as a product to the customers. One of the potential services is Google Base. Currently Google Base is a public database where users / organization can upload their public data which can be searched over Internet. At the same time Google can provide the option to keep certain data private ( like Docs and Spreadsheet) and allow selective data to be public. This will help business to 1) use a free database and 2) provide the flexibility to make information available in public domain. Business can use Google Base Data Api to leverage both public and private data. The question that may come up whether business will really buy this idea - well that is a topic for another posting.