GMail adds new enterprise-specific features

Today GMail has made one more step towards enterprise market by supporting email retention and delegation for Apps customers. The new features enable to set company-wide retention policies in order to comply with regulatory requirements and allow users to let others manage email for them. Email retention policy is an important aspect of regulatory compliance in the enterprise. Depending on your sector, there may be both industry and government rules to follow when it comes to what email is retained, how it's stored, and for how long. The Premier Edition of Apps will allow your administrators to set policies, starting today. Email delegation is aimed at executives and administrators, rather than something attractive to everyone in an enterprise. But allowing that kind of business-specific functionality in Apps is definitely an important.