Google Apps is great. Well, it’s great as long as your needs are very simple. Once you start digging into more sophisticated features such as performing bulk administrative tasks you start to see the limitations. Google Apps even lacks a usable shared address book at this point. For a company, this is a major reason to stick to their existing Exchange architecture.
Luckily there are 3rd party add-ons that address some of these shortcoming. Power Panel from LTech is one add-on that makes Google Apps a whole lot more useful. I’ve reached out to Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech to let him explain what Power Panel is and how it can increase the value of Google Apps.
Unfortunately Power Panel is not available for Google Apps Standard, as it does not support API access or the Google App Engine.