Every day, more companies are opting to use hosted productivity tools, such as Google Apps, instead of traditional office suites. Hosted apps combine word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations with intuitive and easy to use collaboration features, and they’re adding enterprise security and management features, as well. The result is a set of cloud-based tools that deliver reliability and support while bringing distributed workers closer together.

This Tech Roundup gathers the latest news and analysis around the Google Apps and collaboration trends from pre-eminent thinkers and industry executives, writing for leading IT media outlets TechRepublic and ZDNet.