Ten Hot Cloud Apps @ Google Apps Marketplace

I finally had an opportunity to visit the Google Apps Marketplace the weekend. It’s chalked-full of third party suppliers of on-demand or software as a service (SaaS) applications that supplement Google’s own cloud-based applications.

As an expansion stage venture capital fund, this is a great place to troll for potential investments/alliances for our existing portfolio.

Google Apps Marketplace takes some queues from the widely popular Apple Apps Store. Currently, Google Apps includes the search giant’s Gmail, calender, Google Docs and a host of other applications. Now, with the launch of Google Apps Marketplace, Google offers a myriad of productivity, accounting, security, scheduling, workflow and management applications.

The top ten applications gaining traction are: Manymoon, OffiSync, RunMyProcess, MyERP.com, Socialwok, Aviary Design Suite, TripIt (I’m an avid user), Corsys Process Factory, Zoho CRM (have relationship with one of our portfolio companies (Central Desktop) and FreshBooks.