Google Enterprise to double the size of India in the year

In 1980, Amit Singh and Nikesh Arora, the classmates in the Air Force School Delhi at Subroto Park, is often used for the team to beat classmates in basketball. Now, the duo teamed up again to the office of Google in Mountain View like Microsoft beat the game software. While Arora is president of global sales search giant operations and business development, Singh is vice president of international sales and operations for Google Enterprise. The company on Thursday previewed its not yet launched a “cloud Connect ‘, a tool that has the potential to allow users to bypass the MS Office, and immediately save multiple versions of Word or Excel files on the cloud-based collaboration. The visit to India, Amit Singh speaks ET at the clouds Google’s strategy and its take on whether consumers will buy software as a product in the future. Excerpts:

That long-term strategy for the launch of Google’s cloud Connect?

We believe that users of Office software does not need to buy as many copies of Microsoft Office. They can directly collaborate and work on a cloud with Google Docs. Our cloudConnect to Google Docs will allow Gmail users to download applications from the network, and set it in Microsoft Office as a bridge. Whenever a user saves a copy in MS Word, PowerPoint or Excel, it is automatically updated on a cloud. Prior to the saved versions are also available at all locations in the world where the document is opened. Last year, when the outbreak of the Icelandic volcano, and hundreds of Google employees in a quandary over the world. We sent them a message in Gmail, to open the spreadsheet Google Docs, and enter their name and location of the travel plans. It worked well, and people were safely removed from their places. More and more people begin to use the software as a service rather than buying it as a product. We have been testing Google cloudConnect Now and start it soon. This is a free download from the site.

Is Google afraid of what is now the largest social networking giant in the world is included in the e-mail service?

Facebook has done a great job of social networks. But not many serious business users how to use social networking application for the corporate use of email. In any case, Mark (Zuckerberg) himself says that, the message is not email. This is not a “Gmail killer. Most people in India will continue to use Gmail.

As the company Google and search for Commerce do? What is the Google Enterprise strategy for India?

Google three proposals include Enterprise Services, Enterprise Search and Geo services. We have nearly 30 million worldwide users of Google Enterprise offerings. Of these, nearly a million users in India are already enjoying the services of Google Enterprise, in just a few months after their launch. We had a conversation with some of India’s largest retail trade include our search to increase their sales. In India, we have about 300 engineers working for Google enterprise applications. We will redouble our India headcount based on the 600 and the user up to 2 million over the next 12 months. With Gmail, Google Docs, Search, Calendar, Sites, voice and video chat applications for the enterprise, combined with the chrome and the Android operating system, we expect to grow exponentially.