fashion industry and the latest scalp ALH Google Enterprise

      Specialty Fashion Group, the largest retailer of women's fashion, and the Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group Australia, the largest pokie operator in the country, begins with online tools from Google today.

Fashion specialty has 900 stores across the country, and ALH joint venture Woolworths operates more than 300 licensed locations and 460 points from the sale of alcohol, including Dan Murphy and BWS.

Google remains tight-lipped about how much revenue it generates from its Google Enterprise activity, but it already has major clients such as Woolworths, Dick Smith, Fairfax Media and former real estate agent, Ray landed whiteand REA group.

"We are going to see real momentum here in Australia," the president of Google Enterprise Amit Singh says.

"In the United States using 58 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, Google Enterprise services around our products across the board -. Google Apps, Google Maps and Google Search"

Google Australia will not break the market share of the company, but Singh said in terms of global market share, the company has 5 million businesses use Google Apps.

In May, Google announced was now 900 million Android devices in the world that have been activated, up to 500 million last year, and that 48 billion apps have been installed from the store digitally.

Australia is a very important market for most Australians get mobile. The country could also be a major growth market for Google as the United States and France, Singh said.

"We have expanded the team here," he said. "We have 700 or more employees in Australia on Google. Thousands of them work on a Google enterprise products and our intention is to grow this team."

A report by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by Google Australia has linked the use of technology with the war for talent. Connected to work - The War for Talent in the report on the digital economy, based on a survey of more than 500 employees across Australia and New Zealand, suggests flexible IT strategies - so that the employees to work at home, bring their own devices to work , with social media and work together - affect the likelihood that employees consider leaving their current employer.

ALH Group National IT Manager Ian McLeod said the launch of Google Enterprise allows the company to engage its 12,000 employees online, giving them the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues and contribute to the company.

"It will also simplify IT support, reducing support costs, while hiring more employees and provide them with modern tools ... work on any device, anytime, anywhere."