OREANDA-NEWS. May 2, 2012. The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Google are happy to announce the official agreement on providing the SKOLKOVO MBA and SKOLKOVO Executive MBA educational programmes students with Google Apps for Education.

Google Apps is a modern and relevant to high security and confidentiality standards way of joint work with documents and online-calendars as well as a tool for communication with the help of the Google e-mail service.

“Among undeniable advantages of Google Apps are their simplicity, reliability and developed integration with the SKOLKOVO business-school infrastructure, moreover, Google Apps can be installed on any mobile gadgets possessed by our students”, comments Viktor Malakhov, head of IT Department of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Vladimir Dolgov, CEO of Google Russia thinks, "The rhythm of student life, especially of those at business-schools, is really fast.  Easy access to information plays an important role for them. Google Apps can let them always stay in touch with their classmates and professors by means of any gadget – a PC or a smartphone – the only condition is a Google account and access to the Internet. It is also worth mentioning that Google accounts can be kept forever, and it will allow students to remain in touch with the school community".

Google Apps for Education opens a wide range of opportunities for SKOLKOVO students: communication and collaboration, information storage and transfer; it is a universal assistant in the studying process.