It saves you from having to host an email server yourself, which is frankly a huge pain, regardless of any guides one finds on the web.
Or, if you so prefer, it saves you from running Exchange, which gives you a more complex environment for more cash.
Furthermore, there are no ads in 'Google Apps for Work' or 'Google Apps for Education' [1].
This page is what I was looking for. Thanks
Re:Gmail outage
by profmonocle on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:58AM
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> You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right?
The business product has no ads.
You're basically paying 5$ per month per user to have Google serve ads based on your companies emails, right? I would, as a company, never allow anyone such unfettered access.
Even if it was ad-free, Google would still have access to the content of your emails. That does not sound like anything I'd ever give any company.
Edit: Gmail for business doesn't show ads. But that doesn't prevent them from profiling and tracking your company activity.