Contact Journal and user onboarding and offboarding templates among new features that provide distributed management and improved workflow within Google Apps

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Nov. 16, 2009 – LTech (www.ltech.com), a leader in enterprise cloud computing products and services, today introduced the latest version of its LTech Power Panel for Google Apps (Power Panel). Power Panel is a Google Apps add-on product that provides IT and end-users with features that extend the power of the Google Apps platform. Power Panel works with the Premier, Education and Partner editions of Google Apps for organizations of all sizes. Building on the user lifecycle management features in its Sept. 2009 release, new features of Power Panel include Contact Journal, Quick Links, new features for IT administrators, and an integration framework for CRM and enterprise data.

“As Google Apps reach further into the enterprise, IT managers and end-users need tools that enable the same type of management and workflow capabilities they experienced before moving to the cloud,” said Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech. “Our customers have driven our product roadmap for features like Contact Journal and Shared Contact Search, and we are happy to announce the availability of these new features today.”

Power Panel is deployed on Google App Engine™, and is secured within a customers’ Google Apps domain. All features and functions are hosted directly in Google’s cloud.

New features in Power Panel include:

• New User Gadget – End-users can access the features of Power Panel directly from a Google Gadget within GMail.
• Contact Journal – Provides users with a 360-degree view of their contacts and relationships inside and outside of the organization. Using Contact Journal, information on upcoming appointments, shared documents, group memberships, common contacts and social network profiles are available directly within the GMail web client. Contact Journal also serves as an integration point for CRM data from vendors like SalesForce™.
• QuickLinks for Information Workers – Power Panel allows executives, managers and IT to distribute links to commonly used workflow applications, forms and documents directly to end-users within the GMail browser canvas via a centrally controlled gadget.
• Shared Contact Search – Provides end-users direct access to add, edit and search organization-wide contacts.
• New Templates and Macros for IT – Includes user lifecycle management tools, including onboarding and offboarding templates, and macros for group-wide password reset, IMAP and POP enablement.
• Power Panel Integration Framework – Based on its extensive work with large enterprise customers, LTech has added new integration capabilities to promote improved workflow, information sharing and collaboration. Using Power Panel as an integration point, customers can tie data from CRM and help desk systems to extend the reach and interoperability of the Google Apps platform. Power Panel supports the Google App Engine, Java and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) SDK’s for customization.

Pricing and Availability

LTech Power Panel for Google Apps is available immediately and pricing starts at $3 per user, per year. Existing and new customers will enjoy all of the above features for the same price. For more information please visit http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel.

About LTech

Founded in 2001, LTech is a leading provider of products and services for enterprise cloud computing. Its cloud integration products include LTech Google Docs Backup, LTech Power Panel for Google Apps and LTech Single Sign-on for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing implementation, configuration and support services. As an early Google Enterprise Partner™, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments and helped develop best-practices for adopting and successfully scaling cloud computing programs for large-scale customers in business, government and education. LTech merged with The Matlen Silver Group Inc., one of the leading IT solutions companies for the Fortune 500, in January of 2009. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473.