Bangalore: Google vastly expanded the span of Google Apps, its online productivity suite, by adding access to over 60 of its other online apps which will enable businesses using Google Apps to now manage how employees use consumer-oriented Google services, reports Thomas Claburn of Information Week. The new leap by Google includes services like Google Voice, Picasa, YouTube, Google Maps, Blogger and Google Translate, among others. Google Apps users could use these other Google applications previously by logging in through a personal Google Account. Additional applications can currently be accessed by Google Apps users via a Google Apps account. This allows businesses to offer employees access to an extended array of applications under the supervision of a Google Apps administrator. Though the additional services are not covered by the Google SLA or telephone support, Google says it will consider feedback about this. Google has simplified its Google Apps branding adding up to expanding access to its services. Instead of the Premiere Edition of Google Apps, the product line has priced Google Apps free for groups of up to 50 and Google Apps for Business at $50 per year for 25GB of Gmail storage with 99 percent uptime, data migration, phone support, security and management tools; Google Apps for Government, FISMA certified for local, state and federal agencies; and Google Apps for Education, like Google Apps for Business but at no cost for qualified educational and non-profit organizations. "Google Apps is bringing very dramatic IT cost savings to the enterprise," said Dennis Troper, Director of product management for Google Enterprise . He added that beyond lowering management costs and alleviating the need to purchase servers, Google Apps makes employees more productive.