From the Google Apps Updates Blog Post
The Google Apps Marketplace allows administrators to discover and purchase integrated third party cloud applications and deploy them to their domains. Applications listed in the Google Apps Marketplace integrate with Google Apps using open protocols. Once added, they then can be easily managed from your domain’s control panel and accessed by users through the same links as the Google Apps suite.
Google Apps was already a real candidate for small business collaboration and communication. Now they kicked it up a notch or two by integrating third party cloud computing offerings that can be administered from within the security and stability of the Google Cloud.
From Google Apps Store Seeks Cloud Collaboration Boost at the New York Times.
With Google Apps at the center of the galaxy of marketplace applications, businesses can craft a custom collaboration and communication suite featuring single sign-on and other integration points.
You can now build a best of breed cloud solution, utilizing solutions from various vendors, all within the Google infrastructure.
If your were at all interested in Google Apps before, that interesting factor just grew exponentially.
