Authorized resellers will be able to sell, customize and support Google Apps Premier Edition for customers, creating new revenue opportunities for partners and easier access to Google’s cloud services.

The Google Apps reseller program is now open for applications from interested parties.

Potential resellers will be evaluated based on relevant experience and credit worthiness.

Applications are encouraged from companies with a strong SaaS orientation and a business model built around providing value-added services and solutions.

Authorised resellers will be able to begin selling Apps by the end of March.

“Google Apps has reached a level of maturity where it is useful and valuable for almost any business,” said Dave Girouard, President of Enterprise, Google.

“This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”

Google will provide resellers with training, support, and tools for sales and marketing and tools for integrating Google Apps into their customers’ business operations.

Resellers will bill their customers directly and can bundle additional services and support with Google Apps.

Google has already rolled out the program to more than 50 pilot partners worldwide.

“We believe strongly that all companies will adopt SaaS to one degree or another, and Google’s reseller program empowers us to be experts in the cloud,” says Tony Safoian, President of IT firm SADA Systems Inc.

“Reselling Google Apps opens up new opportunities via new conversations we could not have had with prospective clients as little as two years ago.

“What Google Apps offers – if you take into consideration the pace of innovation, the collaboration tools, and the built-in disaster recovery – is not available anywhere else at any price; when you add that our clients can save 75 percent of costs versus doing this all on-premise, it is often an easy sell.”

The reseller program will include:

A portal with a set of business and technical information, and online discussion groups.

Sales training, technical training, and customer marketing materials.

Reseller tools for setting up business customers, provisioning end users, management, and reporting.

Integration APIs (REST-based) for directory synchronization, migration, reporting, and single sign-on.

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Under this agreement, Apple’s store-in-store will enter 40 quality retail stores of Five Star Appliance in 2009. The first batch of five Apple store-in-store areas will reportedly be opened during the upcoming Labor Day holiday on May 1, 2009, and these stores will be located in Five Star’s Nanjing Xinjiekou store, Wuxi Shenglimen store, Suzhou Shilu store, Hangzhou Wensanlu store, and Changzhou Guanhelu store, respectively. Before the end of September 2009, the 40 Apple stores-in-store will all open for business and some of these stores will introduce Internet access to provide customers with convenient experiences.

Apple’s worldwide distribution are divided into four specifications, which are Apple store, Apple store-in-store, Apple quality distributor, and Apple distributor. Apple store is directly opened by the company itself and there is only one such store in China that is located in Sanlitun, Beijing.

Jing Xing, Five Star’s director for brand and market promotion, said that Best Buy’s international department has signed a worldwide strategic cooperative agreement with Apple. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy, Five Star Appliance will be the core sector for this cooperation in China. Five Star Appliance will select 40 quality stores to implement the cooperation in four phases. Meanwhile, Apple’s plants will adopt the one-stop supply model to supply products to Five Star Appliance’s retail stores.

Jing said Apple store-in-store is one of the most important projects for Five Star Appliance in 2009. This project has a significant meaning for improving Five Star Appliance’s image, further attracting young customers, and providing a new business model to the company.