Next Up for Google: The Enterprise

This isn’t really news, but there’s a nice rundown of which consumer “toys” the company may bring to the enterprise in this interview with Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise division at Internet News. On mapping, it’s a Gartner analyst that speaks:

Gartner analyst Whit Andrews said that Google is putting a lot of emphasis on geospatial services for enterprise. “They see a lot of power being available in that product line,” he told internetnews.com.

Mashups with Google Maps is just one example of how Google consumer applications have the potential to drive significant enterprise dollars. Google has even signed service level agreements for enterprise contracts for Google Maps and Google Earth, he said.