Whether Docs will really get dramatically enhanced remains to be seen, said Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish, noting that Google could be reacting to Microsoft's plans to release a major upgrade to Office next year. "Google could be attempting to make a splash and a lot more noise than the feature set necessarily merits," McLeish said.

Last week, Girouard also said Apps customers will see more effort by Google to attract enterprise developers to its App Engine hosted application development environment, which recently gained Java support and became generally available after a period of limited release.

Google will also continue enhancing the Gmail and Calendar components with improvements aimed at CIOs and IT managers, including the upcoming Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, he said.

In 2006, Google acquired Web and video conferencing software from Swedish company Marratech, which could give Apps a component to better compete against Cisco System's WebEx. Having Web and video conferencing would be in line with Google's aspirations to provide a complete collaboration and communication suite with Apps.