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Engineered for your enterprise. </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div class='cols-wrapper loading'> <div class='col-main-wrapper'> <div class='col-main'> <div class='section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='post' data-id='2726086475702837331' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html' itemprop='url' title='Migrating from Lotus Notes® just got easier'> Migrating from Lotus Notes® just got easier </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, November 12, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Earlier this week, we released improved versions of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html">Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>. The migration tool has more than 40 new features to make moving from your Lotus Notes environment to Google's cloud even easier. Here are our favorites:<br /><ul><li>Support for OAuth, so you don't need to store administrator and user passwords to migrate mail, calendar and contacts<br /><li>User provisioning can be run as a separate module prior to user migration, so you can verify users have been provisioned as you like before migrating data<br /><li>Enhanced logging capabilities so you can see what migration actions were taken<br /><li>Support for assigning group owners from migrated Domino Directory groups<br /><li>Improved support for migrated calendar events and push synchronization for BlackBerry® devices<br /><li>Simpler migration tool interface<br /></ul>Head over to the <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=154630">download page</a> to read more about the new migration functionality and get the update. Please also visit our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Apps/label?lid=10ca04b8636108b3&hl=en">user forums</a> if you have any questions or comments! <br><br><span class="byline-author">Posted by Colin Neale, Technical Solutions Engineer</span> </script> <noscript> Earlier this week, we released improved versions of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html">Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>. The migration tool has more than 40 new features to make moving from your Lotus Notes environment to Google's cloud even easier. Here are our favorites:<br /><ul><li>Support for OAuth, so you don't need to store administrator and user passwords to migrate mail, calendar and contacts<br /><li>User provisioning can be run as a separate module prior to user migration, so you can verify users have been provisioned as you like before migrating data<br /><li>Enhanced logging capabilities so you can see what migration actions were taken<br /><li>Support for assigning group owners from migrated Domino Directory groups<br /><li>Improved support for migrated calendar events and push synchronization for BlackBerry® devices<br /><li>Simpler migration tool interface<br /></ul>Head over to the <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=154630">download page</a> to read more about the new migration functionality and get the update. Please also visit our <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Apps/label?lid=10ca04b8636108b3&hl=en">user forums</a> if you have any questions or comments! <br><br><span class="byline-author">Posted by Colin Neale, Technical Solutions Engineer</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Migrating from Lotus Notes® just got easier&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/migrating-from-lotus-notes-just-got.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/migration' rel='tag'> migration </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='9151466554729339060' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html' itemprop='url' title='Bergelectric on evaluating Microsoft BPOS-S and choosing Google Apps'> Bergelectric on evaluating Microsoft BPOS-S and choosing Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, August 5, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor’s Note:</span> We invited Kyle Swafford, Director of IT Services for Bergelectric, to share the story of Bergelectric’s evaluation of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS-S and their subsequent migration from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps using Google Apps Authorized Reseller SADA Systems, Inc.</span><br /><br />Since our founding in 1946, <a href="http://www.bergelectric.com/">Bergelectric</a> Corporation has provided electrical contracting on thousands of construction projects for clients such as Phoenix International Raceway, the FBI, the University of Southern California, and Ritz Carlton Hotels. Bergelectric has more than 1,300 field employees and over 400 office professionals coast to coast.<br /><br />Our company had been a Novell Groupwise shop for many years, and IT staff had begun to feel increasing frustration with the platform due to its stagnancy. They were forced to dedicate substantial time and resources to maintaining servers across many sites nationwide. And we had to enforce email storage quotas of 100MB, though this amount of storage was often inadequate for users. Collaboration possibilities were practically nonexistent. In short, this aging environment wasn’t keeping pace with Bergelectric and this created a significant challenge for the organization.<br /><br />The choice to move to a hosted e-mail service was discussed passionately at every level of the company and marked a significant departure from the costly, and dated, infrastructure constraints of our on-premise system. After we made the decision to move to a hosted provider, we spent a considerable amount of time comparing offerings, including Microsoft BPOS-S and Google Apps. Initially we found Microsoft BPOS-S an attractive option, but as we delved deeper into the contract and piloted a production environment deployment we found the BPOS-S solution came up short - even with the significant concessions Microsoft made in order to be competitive with Google. For example, we were put off by the fact that we would have to go through a third party company for email archiving and retention. We soon came to the realization that we would have to invest significant additional time and money into BPOS in order to meet our initial expectations of migrating to the cloud.<br /><br />We decided to revisit Google Apps. For email archiving and retention, <a href="//www.google.com/postini/discovery.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google Message Discovery</a> was easier to use, significantly cheaper, better integrated into the entire email migration process, and offered more features than the third party options available with BPOS. Once more, through the course of our lengthy evaluation, Google continued to update Apps’ functionality to incorporate virtually all of the features that we had valued in Microsoft’s offering. After updates such as Google Calendar Sync, which syncs events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar, and the ability to delegate calendar management to an administrative assistant, we had reached the tipping point where users adamant about using Outlook became confident in the capabilities of the Google Apps suite.<br /><br />Following a rapid response by a combined team from Google and Google Apps Authorized Reseller, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewVendorListings?vendorId=3448">SADA Systems, Inc.</a>, Bergelectric quickly made plans to “Go Google.” Key components of the deployment included user synchronization between Active Directory and Google Apps, single sign-on to Apps using Active Directory credentials, migration of all data from Groupwise to Google (including historical email, contacts and calendar items), Google Apps integration with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, implementation of the Google Message Discovery product for mail archiving and discovery, and a complete training and change management effort to ensure the smoothest possible transition and high user adoption rates.<br /><br />Our migration off the Groupwise platform has allowed the IT staff to focus its resources on more strategic, business-driven initiatives in the online space. The IT team has regained precious time previously spent patching and keeping the e-mail servers running and are now able to focus on things like business continuity and compliance. Employees have a generous 25 GB of e-mail storage and the ability access e-mail and collaboration tools from our many offices and remote project sites, whether it’s via a desktop, laptop or mobile device.<br /><br />We were impressed by Google’s commitment to making it easy and simple for long-term on-premise users to migrate to the cloud. And Google’s <a href="http://www.dataliberation.org/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">data liberation policy</a> gave us peace of mind that, if we ever wanted to move platforms, we’d be able to readily do so. Once more, their commitment to open standards and APIs allow us to access our own data and customize our implementation in ways that we never thought possible. As our business needs evolve, we can find additional apps in the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google Apps Marketplace</a> or we can easily build our own on <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google App Engine.</a><br /><br />Overall, our employees have been extremely happy with the move to Google Apps. IT is relieved to finally have true redundancy, painless scalability and better control, all while no longer needing to maintain remote servers and tape backups. Management is pleased with the cost savings and vastly improved service offerings.<br /><br />Posted by Kevin Gough, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise </script> <noscript> <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor’s Note:</span> We invited Kyle Swafford, Director of IT Services for Bergelectric, to share the story of Bergelectric’s evaluation of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS-S and their subsequent migration from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps using Google Apps Authorized Reseller SADA Systems, Inc.</span><br /><br />Since our founding in 1946, <a href="http://www.bergelectric.com/">Bergelectric</a> Corporation has provided electrical contracting on thousands of construction projects for clients such as Phoenix International Raceway, the FBI, the University of Southern California, and Ritz Carlton Hotels. Bergelectric has more than 1,300 field employees and over 400 office professionals coast to coast.<br /><br />Our company had been a Novell Groupwise shop for many years, and IT staff had begun to feel increasing frustration with the platform due to its stagnancy. They were forced to dedicate substantial time and resources to maintaining servers across many sites nationwide. And we had to enforce email storage quotas of 100MB, though this amount of storage was often inadequate for users. Collaboration possibilities were practically nonexistent. In short, this aging environment wasn’t keeping pace with Bergelectric and this created a significant challenge for the organization.<br /><br />The choice to move to a hosted e-mail service was discussed passionately at every level of the company and marked a significant departure from the costly, and dated, infrastructure constraints of our on-premise system. After we made the decision to move to a hosted provider, we spent a considerable amount of time comparing offerings, including Microsoft BPOS-S and Google Apps. Initially we found Microsoft BPOS-S an attractive option, but as we delved deeper into the contract and piloted a production environment deployment we found the BPOS-S solution came up short - even with the significant concessions Microsoft made in order to be competitive with Google. For example, we were put off by the fact that we would have to go through a third party company for email archiving and retention. We soon came to the realization that we would have to invest significant additional time and money into BPOS in order to meet our initial expectations of migrating to the cloud.<br /><br />We decided to revisit Google Apps. For email archiving and retention, <a href="//www.google.com/postini/discovery.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google Message Discovery</a> was easier to use, significantly cheaper, better integrated into the entire email migration process, and offered more features than the third party options available with BPOS. Once more, through the course of our lengthy evaluation, Google continued to update Apps’ functionality to incorporate virtually all of the features that we had valued in Microsoft’s offering. After updates such as Google Calendar Sync, which syncs events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar, and the ability to delegate calendar management to an administrative assistant, we had reached the tipping point where users adamant about using Outlook became confident in the capabilities of the Google Apps suite.<br /><br />Following a rapid response by a combined team from Google and Google Apps Authorized Reseller, <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewVendorListings?vendorId=3448">SADA Systems, Inc.</a>, Bergelectric quickly made plans to “Go Google.” Key components of the deployment included user synchronization between Active Directory and Google Apps, single sign-on to Apps using Active Directory credentials, migration of all data from Groupwise to Google (including historical email, contacts and calendar items), Google Apps integration with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, implementation of the Google Message Discovery product for mail archiving and discovery, and a complete training and change management effort to ensure the smoothest possible transition and high user adoption rates.<br /><br />Our migration off the Groupwise platform has allowed the IT staff to focus its resources on more strategic, business-driven initiatives in the online space. The IT team has regained precious time previously spent patching and keeping the e-mail servers running and are now able to focus on things like business continuity and compliance. Employees have a generous 25 GB of e-mail storage and the ability access e-mail and collaboration tools from our many offices and remote project sites, whether it’s via a desktop, laptop or mobile device.<br /><br />We were impressed by Google’s commitment to making it easy and simple for long-term on-premise users to migrate to the cloud. And Google’s <a href="http://www.dataliberation.org/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">data liberation policy</a> gave us peace of mind that, if we ever wanted to move platforms, we’d be able to readily do so. Once more, their commitment to open standards and APIs allow us to access our own data and customize our implementation in ways that we never thought possible. As our business needs evolve, we can find additional apps in the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google Apps Marketplace</a> or we can easily build our own on <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/?utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent_sada&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_sada">Google App Engine.</a><br /><br />Overall, our employees have been extremely happy with the move to Google Apps. IT is relieved to finally have true redundancy, painless scalability and better control, all while no longer needing to maintain remote servers and tape backups. Management is pleased with the cost savings and vastly improved service offerings.<br /><br />Posted by Kevin Gough, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Google Enterprise </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Bergelectric on evaluating Microsoft BPOS-S and choosing Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/bergelectric-on-evaluating-microsoft.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partner' rel='tag'> partner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7837920624040135057' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html' itemprop='url' title='Lotus Notes users can now “go Google” in phases'> Lotus Notes users can now “go Google” in phases </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, May 13, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Lotus Notes customers love Google Apps because they get many of Notes’ best features – like <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/sites.html#utm_source=entblog-gccln-0513&utm_medium=blog">document libraries</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/google-d-s/scripts/scripts.html">scripting</a> – in addition to a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 25GB of email storage, and substantial cost savings. Today, we’re making it even easier for Lotus Notes customers to try Google Apps with <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>.<br /><br />This calendar connector allows businesses to switch to Google Apps department by department, by making calendaring work more seamlessly between Notes and Google Apps. Google Apps users in your organization can look up free/busy info for coworkers still on Lotus Notes, and vice versa. <br /><br />In addition, we’ve made it easier to go Google with several improvements to <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=154630">Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes</a>. Some of the updates include:<br /><br /><li>Support for multi-domain management across all APIs<br /><li>Migration of Domino Directory data, including groups<br /><li>Enhanced user provisioning that can automatically generate Google Apps passwords when accounts are created<br /><li>New domain-wide and user-level options to manage spam folders and archive labels<br /><br />If you have a legacy Lotus Notes footprint, we invite you to learn more about <a "href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager, Google Apps</span> </script> <noscript> Lotus Notes customers love Google Apps because they get many of Notes’ best features – like <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/sites.html#utm_source=entblog-gccln-0513&utm_medium=blog">document libraries</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/google-d-s/scripts/scripts.html">scripting</a> – in addition to a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 25GB of email storage, and substantial cost savings. Today, we’re making it even easier for Lotus Notes customers to try Google Apps with <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>.<br /><br />This calendar connector allows businesses to switch to Google Apps department by department, by making calendaring work more seamlessly between Notes and Google Apps. Google Apps users in your organization can look up free/busy info for coworkers still on Lotus Notes, and vice versa. <br /><br />In addition, we’ve made it easier to go Google with several improvements to <a href="//www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=154630">Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes</a>. Some of the updates include:<br /><br /><li>Support for multi-domain management across all APIs<br /><li>Migration of Domino Directory data, including groups<br /><li>Enhanced user provisioning that can automatically generate Google Apps passwords when accounts are created<br /><li>New domain-wide and user-level options to manage spam folders and archive labels<br /><br />If you have a legacy Lotus Notes footprint, we invite you to learn more about <a "href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181256">Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes</a>.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager, Google Apps</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Lotus Notes users can now “go Google” in phases&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/lotus-notes-users-can-now-go-google-in.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/admin' rel='tag'> admin </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1322764389164188070' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html' itemprop='url' title='Switching Channels: Making the Transition from Microsoft to Google'> Switching Channels: Making the Transition from Microsoft to Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, May 13, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><b>Editor’s Note: </b>Ed Laczynski is Founder and CTO of LTech, a member of the Google <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Authorized Reseller Program. We asked Ed to share his experiences and successes with program and why he believes that the cloud is where companies need to b</i>e.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>In 2005, <a href="http://www.ltech.com/">LTech</a> was a local systems integrator and development shop with a focus on Microsoft solutions. Satisfied with the Microsoft technology platform at the time but crowded out by a sea of competition and frustrated by a lack of innovation, we were introduced to Google through a Google Search Appliance integration for a customer.</div><div><br /></div><div>We learned about <a href="//google.com/a">Google Apps</a> and started working with the platform in 2007 to provide deployment and migration services for clients. So when the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html">Google Apps Reseller Program</a> was announced in 2009, LTech already had an experienced team in place and a Single Sign-On product developed specifically for Google Apps customers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Microsoft Partner Program was and is a great program for developers in terms of providing SDKs and IDEs, but it was difficult to navigate and even more difficult for us to get support and build a true partnership. The Google Enterprise Program however, was easy to navigate and make connections. I am sure being early to the program helped, but Google gave us the support and confidence we needed to invest and build a successful reselling business. Google provided detailed training which allowed our technicians and developers to learn the platform and build out our delivery teams.</div><div><br /></div><div>By mid-2008, we decided to stop actively offering Microsoft-based collaboration solutions to customers. This was a big move for us, and a bit scary, but the Microsoft platform wasn’t evolving at the pace our customers demanded. The Microsoft Partner Program didn’t foster the same type of opportunity as Google for a start-up company like ours. Our Google Apps business was taking off and we haven’t looked back. We have grown to a multi-million dollar business with dozens of cloud technologists and a national footprint, helping to pave the way for business adoption of cloud.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Cloud Transition Opportunity</b></div><div>We are investing in the cloud because it is the future of business technology. This is one of those rare transitional moments in technology – near unlimited computing power is being made available to both experts and non-experts alike. Whole technology ecosystems and industries will be transformed by it. Just look at what leaders like Google, Amazon, and Salesforce have accomplished in a few short years – and the investments they've made.</div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470776162416534002" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-wZ7y6DIfI/AAAAAAAAAaM/x6cpHE34go4/s400/blog2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px; "></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Source: LTech 2010</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>At LTech, we’re seeing certain industries adopt Google Apps faster than others. We are responding to this by developing vertically focused solutions. For example, our <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/real-estate">Google Apps for Real Estate</a> program bundles Google Apps, Agent Website Templates, and <a href="http://www.tungle.me/Home/?affiliate=LTechPR">Tungle.me</a> calendar sharing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Why are these businesses adopting Google Apps? It’s widely known that Google Apps is <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/enterprise/pricing">more cost effective</a> compared to on-premise software, our customers are also taking advantage of the rapid innovation pace for productivity gains and business transformation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Apps isn't just email. Products like Google Sites and Google Docs can deliver spontaneous collaboration capabilities for employees that were never connected before. For example, the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/next-generation-of-google-docs.html">new Google Docs interface</a> takes real time collaboration to the next level by allowing you to see other people’s changes character-by-character as they type. No need to send attachments back and forth, and it is web-standards and mobile friendly. That sort of innovation is key to enterprise adoption of cloud platforms.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Google Apps Partner Program</b></div><div>While I can't reveal exact numbers, the positive growth of Google Apps sales in our business is exciting and keeping us charged up about the opportunity ahead as a leading Google Apps Reseller and Google Enterprise Partner. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470776160941968914" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-wZ7tafDhI/AAAAAAAAAaE/75EbQ8B4RSc/s400/Blog1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px; "></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic; font-size:x-small;">Source: LTech 2010</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The Google Authorized Reseller Program has helped us grow from a small systems integrator to a leader in cloud products and services. We've built a great relationship with Google that is mutually beneficial, and we get support when and where we need it. In particular, the Google Apps developer relations team at Google has been instrumental in helping us to build enterprise quality products like <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel">Power Panel for Google Apps</a> and <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/single-sign-on">Single Sign On</a>. The <a href="http://code.google.com/googleapps">documentation</a> and API support available is fantastic, and the community and ecosystem around the Google Apps suite is strong.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: right;">Ed Laczynski</div><div style="text-align: right;">Founder and CTO, LTech</div><div><br /></div><div>Posted by Pat Spears, Google Apps Reseller Team</div> </script> <noscript> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><b>Editor’s Note: </b>Ed Laczynski is Founder and CTO of LTech, a member of the Google <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Authorized Reseller Program. We asked Ed to share his experiences and successes with program and why he believes that the cloud is where companies need to b</i>e.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>In 2005, <a href="http://www.ltech.com/">LTech</a> was a local systems integrator and development shop with a focus on Microsoft solutions. Satisfied with the Microsoft technology platform at the time but crowded out by a sea of competition and frustrated by a lack of innovation, we were introduced to Google through a Google Search Appliance integration for a customer.</div><div><br /></div><div>We learned about <a href="//google.com/a">Google Apps</a> and started working with the platform in 2007 to provide deployment and migration services for clients. So when the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html">Google Apps Reseller Program</a> was announced in 2009, LTech already had an experienced team in place and a Single Sign-On product developed specifically for Google Apps customers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Microsoft Partner Program was and is a great program for developers in terms of providing SDKs and IDEs, but it was difficult to navigate and even more difficult for us to get support and build a true partnership. The Google Enterprise Program however, was easy to navigate and make connections. I am sure being early to the program helped, but Google gave us the support and confidence we needed to invest and build a successful reselling business. Google provided detailed training which allowed our technicians and developers to learn the platform and build out our delivery teams.</div><div><br /></div><div>By mid-2008, we decided to stop actively offering Microsoft-based collaboration solutions to customers. This was a big move for us, and a bit scary, but the Microsoft platform wasn’t evolving at the pace our customers demanded. The Microsoft Partner Program didn’t foster the same type of opportunity as Google for a start-up company like ours. Our Google Apps business was taking off and we haven’t looked back. We have grown to a multi-million dollar business with dozens of cloud technologists and a national footprint, helping to pave the way for business adoption of cloud.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Cloud Transition Opportunity</b></div><div>We are investing in the cloud because it is the future of business technology. This is one of those rare transitional moments in technology – near unlimited computing power is being made available to both experts and non-experts alike. Whole technology ecosystems and industries will be transformed by it. Just look at what leaders like Google, Amazon, and Salesforce have accomplished in a few short years – and the investments they've made.</div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470776162416534002" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-wZ7y6DIfI/AAAAAAAAAaM/x6cpHE34go4/s400/blog2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px; "></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Source: LTech 2010</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>At LTech, we’re seeing certain industries adopt Google Apps faster than others. We are responding to this by developing vertically focused solutions. For example, our <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/real-estate">Google Apps for Real Estate</a> program bundles Google Apps, Agent Website Templates, and <a href="http://www.tungle.me/Home/?affiliate=LTechPR">Tungle.me</a> calendar sharing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Why are these businesses adopting Google Apps? It’s widely known that Google Apps is <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/enterprise/pricing">more cost effective</a> compared to on-premise software, our customers are also taking advantage of the rapid innovation pace for productivity gains and business transformation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Apps isn't just email. Products like Google Sites and Google Docs can deliver spontaneous collaboration capabilities for employees that were never connected before. For example, the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/next-generation-of-google-docs.html">new Google Docs interface</a> takes real time collaboration to the next level by allowing you to see other people’s changes character-by-character as they type. No need to send attachments back and forth, and it is web-standards and mobile friendly. That sort of innovation is key to enterprise adoption of cloud platforms.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Google Apps Partner Program</b></div><div>While I can't reveal exact numbers, the positive growth of Google Apps sales in our business is exciting and keeping us charged up about the opportunity ahead as a leading Google Apps Reseller and Google Enterprise Partner. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470776160941968914" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-wZ7tafDhI/AAAAAAAAAaE/75EbQ8B4RSc/s400/Blog1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px; "></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic; font-size:x-small;">Source: LTech 2010</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The Google Authorized Reseller Program has helped us grow from a small systems integrator to a leader in cloud products and services. We've built a great relationship with Google that is mutually beneficial, and we get support when and where we need it. In particular, the Google Apps developer relations team at Google has been instrumental in helping us to build enterprise quality products like <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel">Power Panel for Google Apps</a> and <a href="http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/single-sign-on">Single Sign On</a>. The <a href="http://code.google.com/googleapps">documentation</a> and API support available is fantastic, and the community and ecosystem around the Google Apps suite is strong.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: right;">Ed Laczynski</div><div style="text-align: right;">Founder and CTO, LTech</div><div><br /></div><div>Posted by Pat Spears, Google Apps Reseller Team</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Switching Channels: Making the Transition from Microsoft to Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='4' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/switching-channels-making-transition.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/developers' rel='tag'> developers </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1105834931035865503' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html' itemprop='url' title='Three tips for start-ups considering Google Apps'> Three tips for start-ups considering Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, May 10, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gyz4dGajI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7sqlqVV8eQo/s1600/AVB_Lowres.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469677614350625330" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gyz4dGajI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7sqlqVV8eQo/s400/AVB_Lowres.jpeg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 300px;"></a><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Editors note: </i></span><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Today’s guest blogger is Silicon Valley veteran Andy Bechtolsheim. While at Stanford University, Bechtolsheim devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation) because he was tired of waiting for computer time on the central university system. Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy approached him to market his invention and start Sun – derived from “Stanford University Network.” Sun Microsystems quickly became a success, with a market capitalization by 2003 of $11.5 billion. Today, Andy is Chairman of Arista Networks, a company that delivers networking solutions for large data centers and high-performance computing environments.<br /></i></span></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Andy will be speaking on a <a href="http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1714621" id="b:-k" title="live webcast">live webcast</a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> thi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s Thursday, May 13, at 11:00 </span></span></i></span><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a.m. PDT, whe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">re</span></span> he will also field questions from the audience.</i></span></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">If you are an entrepreneur or you are part of a growing start-up, then you're no doubt laser-f</span></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ocused on developing and marketing something game-changing. From experience, I know that you can’t afford to siphon off resources toward anything that’s not core to the business.</span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">When we founded <a href="http://www.aristanetworks.com/" id="vvm5" title="Arista Networks">Arista Networks</a>, we did not really want to buy our own servers for internal IT tasks such as hosting email. And we didn’t want to worry about data back-ups or remote access. </span></span>We initially used a small, hosted email provider, but something went wrong every week. More than two years ago<span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span">, we switched to Google Apps for all of our communication needs, and we have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">not had any problems since.</span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Our experience with Google Apps is very good. Email works great --- in particular the search function plus the integrated chat, and there is no SPAM. </span></span></span>We get back-ups and world-wide remote access managed by Google. Document sharing is very useful. Basically everything just works as you would expect, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">and we don't have to worry about anything. We don't need a system administrator, even with a headcount of more than a hundred people.</span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">My advice to every start-up is to use Google Apps. It saves you from having huge headaches, it is very inexpensive, and just a better system. </span></span>We also use some other cloud services such as Salesforce.com for customer relationship management, Netsuite for our database and Amazon <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">to host our website. Cloud computing works great for us. I would never buy another server to bring these functions in-house.</span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">I would be happy to </span></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">relay my experiences with Google Apps here at Arista and share three tips with you on:</span></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">How to use cloud co</span>mputing to focus on your core competency</li><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">Ways to help employees increase productivity in a rapid growth environment</span></li><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">How to recharge your business approach through constant</span> innovations in Google Apps</li></ul><br /><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> <a href="//www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=3+Tips+For+Every+Start-Up+Or+Entrepreneurial+Venture+Considering+Google+Apps&dates=20100513T180000Z/20100513T190000Z&details=Join+this+live+Webcast+to+hear+Andy+Bechtolsheim,+Silicon+Valley+veteran,+discuss+how+cloud+computing+technologies+can+help+businesses+of+any+size+accelerate+results.++More+details:+http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1714621&location=Register:+http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1714621&trp=true&sprop=www.google.com/apps&sprop=name:www.google.com/apps" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button6.gif"></a><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1714621" id="ymzt" title="Please join us">Please join us</a> for this LIVE event:</span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">May 13, 2010</span></b></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">11:00 a.m. PDT /</span></span> 2:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. GMT</span></b></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p></span><p></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gxKyMsCwI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/e3u5H1eMnzI/s1600/Arista+Logo+Transparent.png"><img alt="" border="none" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469675808784911106" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gxKyMsCwI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/e3u5H1eMnzI/s400/Arista+Logo+Transparent.png" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 48px;"></a></span></span></p></span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;font-size:16px;"></span></b></span></p><b><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Do you have an informative and fun Google Apps story to share? Please </span></span><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cm5BVzV3QUtjaTljSWRiUDlub25rSEE6MA.." style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal;"><span class="Hyperlink__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Hyperlink__Char Apple-style-span"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">submit it here</span></u></span></span></a><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. </span></span> </p></b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"></b><p style="font-family: arial;"></p> </script> <noscript> <a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gyz4dGajI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7sqlqVV8eQo/s1600/AVB_Lowres.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469677614350625330" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gyz4dGajI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7sqlqVV8eQo/s400/AVB_Lowres.jpeg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 300px;"></a><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Editors note: </i></span><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Today’s guest blogger is Silicon Valley veteran Andy Bechtolsheim. While at Stanford University, Bechtolsheim devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation) because he was tired of waiting for computer time on the central university system. Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy approached him to market his invention and start Sun – derived from “Stanford University Network.” Sun Microsystems quickly became a success, with a market capitalization by 2003 of $11.5 billion. Today, Andy is Chairman of Arista Networks, a company that delivers networking solutions for large data centers and high-performance computing environments.<br /></i></span></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i>Andy will be speaking on a <a href="http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1714621" id="b:-k" title="live webcast">live webcast</a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> thi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s Thursday, May 13, at 11:00 </span></span></i></span><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a.m. PDT, whe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">re</span></span> he will also field questions from the audience.</i></span></p><p class="Normal" style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">If you are an entrepreneur or you are part of a growing start-up, then you're no doubt laser-f</span></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ocused on developing and marketing something game-changing. From experience, I know that you can’t afford to siphon off resources toward anything that’s not core to the business.</span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">When we founded <a href="http://www.aristanetworks.com/" id="vvm5" title="Arista Networks">Arista Networks</a>, we did not really want to buy our own servers for internal IT tasks such as hosting email. And we didn’t want to worry about data back-ups or remote access. </span></span>We initially used a small, hosted email provider, but something went wrong every week. More than two years ago<span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span">, we switched to Google Apps for all of our communication needs, and we have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">not had any problems since.</span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Our experience with Google Apps is very good. Email works great --- in particular the search function plus the integrated chat, and there is no SPAM. </span></span></span>We get back-ups and world-wide remote access managed by Google. Document sharing is very useful. Basically everything just works as you would expect, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">and we don't have to worry about anything. We don't need a system administrator, even with a headcount of more than a hundred people.</span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">My advice to every start-up is to use Google Apps. It saves you from having huge headaches, it is very inexpensive, and just a better system. </span></span>We also use some other cloud services such as Salesforce.com for customer relationship management, Netsuite for our database and Amazon <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">to host our website. Cloud computing works great for us. I would never buy another server to bring these functions in-house.</span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">I would be happy to </span></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">relay my experiences with Google Apps here at Arista and share three tips with you on:</span></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">How to use cloud co</span>mputing to focus on your core competency</li><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">Ways to help employees increase productivity in a rapid growth environment</span></li><li class="Normal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt;"><span class="Normal__Char Apple-style-span">How to recharge your business approach through constant</span> innovations in Google Apps</li></ul><br /><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> <a href="//www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=3+Tips+For+Every+Start-Up+Or+Entrepreneurial+Venture+Considering+Google+Apps&dates=20100513T180000Z/20100513T190000Z&details=Join+this+live+Webcast+to+hear+Andy+Bechtolsheim,+Silicon+Valley+veteran,+discuss+how+cloud+computing+technologies+can+help+businesses+of+any+size+accelerate+results.++More+details:+http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1714621&location=Register:+http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1714621&trp=true&sprop=www.google.com/apps&sprop=name:www.google.com/apps" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button6.gif"></a><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1714621" id="ymzt" title="Please join us">Please join us</a> for this LIVE event:</span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">May 13, 2010</span></b></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">11:00 a.m. PDT /</span></span> 2:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. GMT</span></b></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p></span><p></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gxKyMsCwI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/e3u5H1eMnzI/s1600/Arista+Logo+Transparent.png"><img alt="" border="none" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469675808784911106" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S-gxKyMsCwI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/e3u5H1eMnzI/s400/Arista+Logo+Transparent.png" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 48px;"></a></span></span></p></span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Arial';"><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;font-size:16px;"></span></b></span></p><b><p class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029" style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Do you have an informative and fun Google Apps story to share? Please </span></span><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cm5BVzV3QUtjaTljSWRiUDlub25rSEE6MA.." style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-weight: normal;"><span class="Hyperlink__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Hyperlink__Char Apple-style-span"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">submit it here</span></u></span></span></a><span class="Normal_0020_0028Web_0029__Char Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. </span></span> </p></b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"></b><p style="font-family: arial;"></p> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Three tips for start-ups considering Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='8' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/05/three-tips-for-start-ups-considering.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/medium%20business' rel='tag'> medium business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8797564230558831396' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html' itemprop='url' title='State Library of Kansas in Topeka goes Google'> State Library of Kansas in Topeka goes Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, April 5, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7rFG2MNr2I/AAAAAAAAAV0/jQHa5_hKv9g/s1600/reading+sept+08.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456890619929407330" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7rFG2MNr2I/AAAAAAAAAV0/jQHa5_hKv9g/s200/reading+sept+08.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 156px; height: 200px;"></a><div><i><b>Editor's Note: </b>Today's guest blogger is Patti Butcher, Director of Statewide Resource Sharing for the State Library of Kansas in Topeka, Kansas. She received her MLS from Emporia State University in 1993. In addition to her current position she previously worked at the Central KS Library System, Northeast KS Library System, and has served as the State Librarian of South Carolina.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Last week, on April 1, the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html">same day that Google re-named itself "Topeka</a>," the State Library of Kansas (SLK) decided to "go Google" and switch our agency's email to Google Apps. But, unlike Google, we weren't fooling around!</div><div><br /></div><div>The State Library of Kansas provides on-site and online information services for state government, the Legislature, all Kansas libraries and Kansas residents. We also work closely with seven regional library systems geographically distributed throughout our state. We have a large collection of print and audiobooks, plus state and federal documents. We manage a suite of online resources available 24/7 to all Kansans – from databases and digital books to online tutoring and services for the visually impaired.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Apps will provide the library’s staff with Gmail, calendar, video chat, real-time document and video sharing, backups, and additional services such as archiving powered by Postini. It will, for the first time, allow the agency’s multiple locations to have a staff intranet using Google Sites and join together teams that were previously separated by several firewalls.</div><div><br /></div><div>The State Library relies heavily on technology so this chance to modernize our communications and collaboration systems is a welcome one. We switched to Google Apps for many reasons:</div><div><ul><li>Substantial cost savings</li><li>Hosting by a trusted third party</li><li>Archiving and backups happening continuously in the cloud</li><li>99.9% uptime, guaranteed</li><li>Strong recommendations from staff at the Northeast Kansas Library System, which made the switch last year</li></ul></div><div>Now SLK’s IT staff will be able to focus on internal staff training needs and upgrading all of our technology systems – rather than on server maintenance. As we deploy Google Apps in the coming weeks, we will first be training our management team who will then work 1-on-1 with all staff to ensure that questions are answered and staff are comfortable with the new products and services. A number of State Library staff already have Gmail accounts and are familiar with its functionality. </div><div><br /></div><div>Staff members are also interested in Google Apps capabilities beyond Gmail – like Google Groups and Google Docs. Our staff is eager to take advantage of the capabilities of Google Apps!</div><div><br /></div><div>Staff from SLK will be at the Kansas Library Association conference in Wichita beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, April 7, and encourage anyone interested in Google Apps to seek us out.</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7q_DGyibzI/AAAAAAAAAVc/E84Zcl5FXho/s1600/slk_logo.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456883958595874610" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7q_DGyibzI/AAAAAAAAAVc/E84Zcl5FXho/s200/slk_logo.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 65px; "></a></div><div>Posted by Serena Satyasai, The Google Apps Team</div><div><br /></div><div>Do you have an informative and fun Google Apps story to share? <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cm5BVzV3QUtjaTljSWRiUDlub25rSEE6MA..">Please submit it here</a>.</div> </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7rFG2MNr2I/AAAAAAAAAV0/jQHa5_hKv9g/s1600/reading+sept+08.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456890619929407330" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7rFG2MNr2I/AAAAAAAAAV0/jQHa5_hKv9g/s200/reading+sept+08.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 156px; height: 200px;"></a><div><i><b>Editor's Note: </b>Today's guest blogger is Patti Butcher, Director of Statewide Resource Sharing for the State Library of Kansas in Topeka, Kansas. She received her MLS from Emporia State University in 1993. In addition to her current position she previously worked at the Central KS Library System, Northeast KS Library System, and has served as the State Librarian of South Carolina.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Last week, on April 1, the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html">same day that Google re-named itself "Topeka</a>," the State Library of Kansas (SLK) decided to "go Google" and switch our agency's email to Google Apps. But, unlike Google, we weren't fooling around!</div><div><br /></div><div>The State Library of Kansas provides on-site and online information services for state government, the Legislature, all Kansas libraries and Kansas residents. We also work closely with seven regional library systems geographically distributed throughout our state. We have a large collection of print and audiobooks, plus state and federal documents. We manage a suite of online resources available 24/7 to all Kansans – from databases and digital books to online tutoring and services for the visually impaired.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google Apps will provide the library’s staff with Gmail, calendar, video chat, real-time document and video sharing, backups, and additional services such as archiving powered by Postini. It will, for the first time, allow the agency’s multiple locations to have a staff intranet using Google Sites and join together teams that were previously separated by several firewalls.</div><div><br /></div><div>The State Library relies heavily on technology so this chance to modernize our communications and collaboration systems is a welcome one. We switched to Google Apps for many reasons:</div><div><ul><li>Substantial cost savings</li><li>Hosting by a trusted third party</li><li>Archiving and backups happening continuously in the cloud</li><li>99.9% uptime, guaranteed</li><li>Strong recommendations from staff at the Northeast Kansas Library System, which made the switch last year</li></ul></div><div>Now SLK’s IT staff will be able to focus on internal staff training needs and upgrading all of our technology systems – rather than on server maintenance. As we deploy Google Apps in the coming weeks, we will first be training our management team who will then work 1-on-1 with all staff to ensure that questions are answered and staff are comfortable with the new products and services. A number of State Library staff already have Gmail accounts and are familiar with its functionality. </div><div><br /></div><div>Staff members are also interested in Google Apps capabilities beyond Gmail – like Google Groups and Google Docs. Our staff is eager to take advantage of the capabilities of Google Apps!</div><div><br /></div><div>Staff from SLK will be at the Kansas Library Association conference in Wichita beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, April 7, and encourage anyone interested in Google Apps to seek us out.</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7q_DGyibzI/AAAAAAAAAVc/E84Zcl5FXho/s1600/slk_logo.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456883958595874610" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7q_DGyibzI/AAAAAAAAAVc/E84Zcl5FXho/s200/slk_logo.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 65px; "></a></div><div>Posted by Serena Satyasai, The Google Apps Team</div><div><br /></div><div>Do you have an informative and fun Google Apps story to share? <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cm5BVzV3QUtjaTljSWRiUDlub25rSEE6MA..">Please submit it here</a>.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:State Library of Kansas in Topeka goes Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/state-library-of-kansas-in-topeka-goes.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/government' rel='tag'> government </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6324385395741396692' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html' itemprop='url' title='Beyond email: simple ways to get more out of Google Apps'> Beyond email: simple ways to get more out of Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, April 5, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnW8GAHBI/AAAAAAAAAUk/UKigU9XaeGk/s1600/logo-mrn.gif"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnLBGcPVI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iMHaC_eXGho/s1600/photo-jlawrence.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455661437577608530" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnLBGcPVI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iMHaC_eXGho/s400/photo-jlawrence.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 177px; height: 185px;"></a><div><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today's guest blogger is Jeremy Lawrence, CIO of The Mind Research Network (MRN), an organization dedicated to the discovery and advancement of clinical solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and other brain disorders. By switching from hosted Microsoft® Exchange to Google Apps, Lawrence spared his IT team from the grind of maintenance, upgrades and patches – all while providing users with a more advanced solution. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Beyond mail, Jeremy deployed Google's online documents, video, archiving, and encryption apps to help his 200+ research scientists and staff improve collaboration, boost productivity and enhance security. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Jeremy will be speaking this Thursday, April 8, on a live webcast. <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1662615">Register here.</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Several years ago the situation at MRN could not have been more complex. The organization had grown with very little standardization and centralization. For email, we had a blend of email clients – Microsoft Outlook®, Outlook Express®, Apple® Mail, Pine, Elm, Semaphore, Morse – need I go on? There was such a proliferation of email accounts with varying reliability that people kept saying "Send it to my home account, because I never check this one." We also had growing needs in calendaring and document sharing.</div><div><br /></div><div>We determined that we needed a single mail domain, mailing lists, a company directory, a shared calendar, as well as shared documents and project websites – something our employees weren't really aware of at the time. We thought about running Microsoft Exchange in-house, switching to another on-site platform, or a hosted model. Over a fair period of time, we calculated the costs of several solutions and analyzed all the reliability and collaboration factors.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google won hands-down in a feature/cost comparison. We opted for a Big Bang conversion and got over the conversion hump in about a week's time. Import of email was flawless across 104 mailboxes – and we've now grown to nearly 300. We also did up-front preparation with weekly FAQ emails and bulk account creation in advance. We set up a hotline and printed instructions for users. We also conducted help sessions in the lobby. Post-migration, we provided "tip of the day" messages for 14 days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beyond mail, we deployed Google's online documents and video, as well as additional archiving and encryption features by Google Postini Services to help our 200+ research scientists and staff improve collaboration, boost productivity, and enhance security. Most of all, we learned that Google Apps provides capabilities far beyond our expectations and provides a platform for us to easily add on additional web apps. It's this additional extensibility and flexibility beyond just email that's a big value add for an organization of our size – and we're just scratching the surface.</div><div><br /></div><div>We learned many tips and tricks for making users happy and we can share five (and more!) simple ways to get more out of Google Apps. Please join me for a live webcast to learn more.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1662615">Five Simple Ways To Get More Out of Google Apps</a></div><div>Thursday, April 8, 2010</div><div>11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. GMT</div><div><a href="//www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=5+Simple+Ways+To+Get+More+Out+of+Google+Apps&dates=20100408T180000Z/20100408T190000Z&details=Live+webcast+on+switching+from+hosted+Microsoft+Exchange&location=Register:+http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1662615&trp=true&sprop=www.google.com/apps&sprop=name:Google+Apps+for+business" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1.gif"></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455661642392017938" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnW8GAHBI/AAAAAAAAAUk/UKigU9XaeGk/s400/logo-mrn.gif" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 54px; "></span></div><div>Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team</div><div><br /></div><div>Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_source=en-na-us-exchange&utm_campaign=exchange">Microsoft® Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes®/Domino®</a>. </div><div><br /></div> </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnW8GAHBI/AAAAAAAAAUk/UKigU9XaeGk/s1600/logo-mrn.gif"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnLBGcPVI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iMHaC_eXGho/s1600/photo-jlawrence.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455661437577608530" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnLBGcPVI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iMHaC_eXGho/s400/photo-jlawrence.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 177px; height: 185px;"></a><div><i><b>Editor's note: </b>Today's guest blogger is Jeremy Lawrence, CIO of The Mind Research Network (MRN), an organization dedicated to the discovery and advancement of clinical solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and other brain disorders. By switching from hosted Microsoft® Exchange to Google Apps, Lawrence spared his IT team from the grind of maintenance, upgrades and patches – all while providing users with a more advanced solution. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Beyond mail, Jeremy deployed Google's online documents, video, archiving, and encryption apps to help his 200+ research scientists and staff improve collaboration, boost productivity and enhance security. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Jeremy will be speaking this Thursday, April 8, on a live webcast. <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1662615">Register here.</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Several years ago the situation at MRN could not have been more complex. The organization had grown with very little standardization and centralization. For email, we had a blend of email clients – Microsoft Outlook®, Outlook Express®, Apple® Mail, Pine, Elm, Semaphore, Morse – need I go on? There was such a proliferation of email accounts with varying reliability that people kept saying "Send it to my home account, because I never check this one." We also had growing needs in calendaring and document sharing.</div><div><br /></div><div>We determined that we needed a single mail domain, mailing lists, a company directory, a shared calendar, as well as shared documents and project websites – something our employees weren't really aware of at the time. We thought about running Microsoft Exchange in-house, switching to another on-site platform, or a hosted model. Over a fair period of time, we calculated the costs of several solutions and analyzed all the reliability and collaboration factors.</div><div><br /></div><div>Google won hands-down in a feature/cost comparison. We opted for a Big Bang conversion and got over the conversion hump in about a week's time. Import of email was flawless across 104 mailboxes – and we've now grown to nearly 300. We also did up-front preparation with weekly FAQ emails and bulk account creation in advance. We set up a hotline and printed instructions for users. We also conducted help sessions in the lobby. Post-migration, we provided "tip of the day" messages for 14 days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beyond mail, we deployed Google's online documents and video, as well as additional archiving and encryption features by Google Postini Services to help our 200+ research scientists and staff improve collaboration, boost productivity, and enhance security. Most of all, we learned that Google Apps provides capabilities far beyond our expectations and provides a platform for us to easily add on additional web apps. It's this additional extensibility and flexibility beyond just email that's a big value add for an organization of our size – and we're just scratching the surface.</div><div><br /></div><div>We learned many tips and tricks for making users happy and we can share five (and more!) simple ways to get more out of Google Apps. Please join me for a live webcast to learn more.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1662615">Five Simple Ways To Get More Out of Google Apps</a></div><div>Thursday, April 8, 2010</div><div>11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. GMT</div><div><a href="//www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=5+Simple+Ways+To+Get+More+Out+of+Google+Apps&dates=20100408T180000Z/20100408T190000Z&details=Live+webcast+on+switching+from+hosted+Microsoft+Exchange&location=Register:+http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid%3D1662615&trp=true&sprop=www.google.com/apps&sprop=name:Google+Apps+for+business" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1.gif"></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455661642392017938" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S7ZnW8GAHBI/AAAAAAAAAUk/UKigU9XaeGk/s400/logo-mrn.gif" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 54px; "></span></div><div>Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team</div><div><br /></div><div>Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_source=en-na-us-exchange&utm_campaign=exchange">Microsoft® Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes®/Domino®</a>. </div><div><br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Beyond email: simple ways to get more out of Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/04/beyond-email-simple-ways-to-get-more.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6671297661085895346' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html' itemprop='url' title='Innovation wins for mid-sized business'> Innovation wins for mid-sized business </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, March 8, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4CnMGf3I/AAAAAAAAARA/8mNd-DuQA_8/s1600-h/Dad_Mattie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391310649294706" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4CnMGf3I/AAAAAAAAARA/8mNd-DuQA_8/s400/Dad_Mattie.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 164px; height: 176px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editors' note:</span> Today’s guest blogger is David Rumberg, Partner and CIO of Sports Basement, a place where runners, swimmers, backpackers, fitness fans and triathletes can find great prices online on everything they need for their outdoor adventures. David has worked in retail for over 20 years. Before Sports Basement, David worked for The Men's Wearhouse, where he was an application analyst working on large projects like PeopleSoft and ecommerce. <br /><br />Join David for a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1514523">live webcast</a> on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT. Please note that registration will occur on a third party site.</span><br /><br />Sports Basement is a specialty retailer – and to keep our mid-sized company going, we need to access email and other collaboration solutions to work in real-time from various locations. Until recently, we were using on-premise Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.<br /><br />It was easy to see that there was a lot of innovative, cool stuff happening in the industry – such as managing email from your iPhone. These were the kinds of things we wanted to enable, yet we thought these capabilities would be too expensive or complicated for us. Many of them were not possible using our existing on-premise solutions. Then we investigated Google Apps, and saw that we could equip everyone with email, access it from anywhere and work collaboratively in real-time from different locations – even on mobile devices. Plus, we could free up staff time to build an online community, increase website conversions with Google Analytics and share best practices.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4e5_QQ2I/AAAAAAAAARQ/b8DfHlP4fJM/s1600-h/ppt+pic.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391796732019554" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4e5_QQ2I/AAAAAAAAARQ/b8DfHlP4fJM/s400/ppt+pic.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;">We're just getting started with Google Apps, but we did one thing right away that's been very helpful: uploading all of our HR forms as templates so anyone knows where to access the most recent form, copy it, and fill it out online.</span><br /><br />In comparing our options, we did a hard cost analysis, but, as always, it was difficult to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison. If we analyzed email alone, then Microsoft and Google would break even after several years. But then we factored in instant messaging, security, spam protection, and mobile email access for all our users. And we also saw that we could end the philosophy of scarcity, ending user rationing and inbox quotas and provide a single platform for communications and collaboration for all of our employees. After we started comparing options, Google was an easy choice and we haven't looked back.<br /><br />As a mid-sized business, we are still finding new ways to take advantage of Google Apps, and seeing more potential every day. Even the ability to put our forms online has been a huge boon for our productivity.<br /><br />More importantly, the Google option was a way to tap into Google’s rich pool of innovation – and, in the end, that’s what we wanted. I’d be happy to share what we have learned so far about what Google inventiveness means to our business. I can also speak about tips and tricks in migrating from Microsoft Exchange and the approach we took in doing so.<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1514523">Please join me for this LIVE event:</a><br /><br />Choosing Google Apps for innovation over Microsoft Exchange<br />Thursday, March 11, 2010<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4PzbEGuI/AAAAAAAAARI/ysOiR6u_9w0/s1600-h/sblogo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391537271577314" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4PzbEGuI/AAAAAAAAARI/ysOiR6u_9w0/s400/sblogo.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 87px;"></a><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, The Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4CnMGf3I/AAAAAAAAARA/8mNd-DuQA_8/s1600-h/Dad_Mattie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391310649294706" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4CnMGf3I/AAAAAAAAARA/8mNd-DuQA_8/s400/Dad_Mattie.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 164px; height: 176px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editors' note:</span> Today’s guest blogger is David Rumberg, Partner and CIO of Sports Basement, a place where runners, swimmers, backpackers, fitness fans and triathletes can find great prices online on everything they need for their outdoor adventures. David has worked in retail for over 20 years. Before Sports Basement, David worked for The Men's Wearhouse, where he was an application analyst working on large projects like PeopleSoft and ecommerce. <br /><br />Join David for a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1514523">live webcast</a> on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT. Please note that registration will occur on a third party site.</span><br /><br />Sports Basement is a specialty retailer – and to keep our mid-sized company going, we need to access email and other collaboration solutions to work in real-time from various locations. Until recently, we were using on-premise Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.<br /><br />It was easy to see that there was a lot of innovative, cool stuff happening in the industry – such as managing email from your iPhone. These were the kinds of things we wanted to enable, yet we thought these capabilities would be too expensive or complicated for us. Many of them were not possible using our existing on-premise solutions. Then we investigated Google Apps, and saw that we could equip everyone with email, access it from anywhere and work collaboratively in real-time from different locations – even on mobile devices. Plus, we could free up staff time to build an online community, increase website conversions with Google Analytics and share best practices.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4e5_QQ2I/AAAAAAAAARQ/b8DfHlP4fJM/s1600-h/ppt+pic.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391796732019554" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4e5_QQ2I/AAAAAAAAARQ/b8DfHlP4fJM/s400/ppt+pic.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;">We're just getting started with Google Apps, but we did one thing right away that's been very helpful: uploading all of our HR forms as templates so anyone knows where to access the most recent form, copy it, and fill it out online.</span><br /><br />In comparing our options, we did a hard cost analysis, but, as always, it was difficult to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison. If we analyzed email alone, then Microsoft and Google would break even after several years. But then we factored in instant messaging, security, spam protection, and mobile email access for all our users. And we also saw that we could end the philosophy of scarcity, ending user rationing and inbox quotas and provide a single platform for communications and collaboration for all of our employees. After we started comparing options, Google was an easy choice and we haven't looked back.<br /><br />As a mid-sized business, we are still finding new ways to take advantage of Google Apps, and seeing more potential every day. Even the ability to put our forms online has been a huge boon for our productivity.<br /><br />More importantly, the Google option was a way to tap into Google’s rich pool of innovation – and, in the end, that’s what we wanted. I’d be happy to share what we have learned so far about what Google inventiveness means to our business. I can also speak about tips and tricks in migrating from Microsoft Exchange and the approach we took in doing so.<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1514523">Please join me for this LIVE event:</a><br /><br />Choosing Google Apps for innovation over Microsoft Exchange<br />Thursday, March 11, 2010<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4PzbEGuI/AAAAAAAAARI/ysOiR6u_9w0/s1600-h/sblogo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446391537271577314" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S5V4PzbEGuI/AAAAAAAAARI/ysOiR6u_9w0/s400/sblogo.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 87px;"></a><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, The Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Innovation wins for mid-sized business&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/03/innovation-wins-for-mid-sized-business.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/medium%20business' rel='tag'> medium business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8551192204022226120' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html' itemprop='url' title='Best Practices of a Google Apps Deployment'> Best Practices of a Google Apps Deployment </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, February 22, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Are you considering Google Apps for your organization? Would you want to hear about the strategies other organizations have used in deploying Google Apps? Do you want to learn field-tested best practices to accelerate deployment and maximize employee satisfaction? <br /><br />Then please join us this Thursday, February 25, for a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1387819">live webcast</a> with <span style="font-weight:bold;">Jim Copeland</span>, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Dan Kenned</span>y and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Marcello Pedersen</span>, Google Apps deployment specialists. Get your questions answered on which best practices will help you succeed.<br /><br />Join us for this live event:<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1387819">Geek Out on the Best Practices of a Google Apps Deployment<br /></a>Thursday, February 25, 2010<br />11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </script> <noscript> Are you considering Google Apps for your organization? Would you want to hear about the strategies other organizations have used in deploying Google Apps? Do you want to learn field-tested best practices to accelerate deployment and maximize employee satisfaction? <br /><br />Then please join us this Thursday, February 25, for a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1387819">live webcast</a> with <span style="font-weight:bold;">Jim Copeland</span>, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Dan Kenned</span>y and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Marcello Pedersen</span>, Google Apps deployment specialists. Get your questions answered on which best practices will help you succeed.<br /><br />Join us for this live event:<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1387819">Geek Out on the Best Practices of a Google Apps Deployment<br /></a>Thursday, February 25, 2010<br />11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Best Practices of a Google Apps Deployment&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='8' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/best-practices-of-google-apps-deployment.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='357108633771475837' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html' itemprop='url' title='Celebrating Google Apps Resellers – a year of customer success'> Celebrating Google Apps Resellers – a year of customer success </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, February 22, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> When we launched the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_anniv">Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program</a> a year ago, a number of partners around the world were already actively helping customers of all sizes reduce IT costs and complexity while giving users the productivity tools they wanted – Gmail, Google Calendar, and more. Since then, millions of businesses have <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdAMLEujm5M">gone Google</a> – and our resellers, too, have gained momentum. With nearly 1,000 Google Apps Authorized Resellers from more than 50 countries now building successful Google Apps practices, we celebrate our partners' progress over the last year and look forward to them continuing to drive customer success with Google Apps in the years to come.<br />In a recent mark of this progress, the <a href="http://www.mspmentor.net/top-100-msps/">MSPmentor 100 Report for 2010</a>, which ranks top managed service providers worldwide, reports that already 22% of these top MSPs are now promoting Google Apps to their clients. <br />Our resellers represent a wide range of firms who assist businesses in adopting, leveraging, and extending Google Apps – from global systems integrators to smaller, specialized IT service providers. Acting as trusted advisors, these solution providers work to serve their clients' unique business needs and to improve user productivity via Google Apps at lower costs and with greater reliability.<br />In our first year, we launched some important tools to help our partners better serve customers, including our online Reseller Console for automated ordering, provisioning, and management of their Google Apps clients. Our <a href="http://apps.gepportal.com/reseller-getting-started">Solution Providers resource site</a> provides a full range of marketing, sales, and product information, while we also instituted a series of online webinars and live training sessions in Google offices around the world. <br />Conversations with channel firms at events hosted by Everything Channel, CompTIA, ConnectWise, and SMB Nation reinforced our belief that customer needs are well served when resellers act as the primary contact for provisioning, deployment, billing, and ongoing consulting and support.<br />We're especially excited about the relationships we've built with our partners over this first year. Some highlights include (in alphabetical order):<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Appirio and Genentech</span> (large enterprise): <a href="http://www.appirio.com/">Appirio</a>, a cloud solution provider, migrated 15,000 <a href="http://www.gene.com/gene/index.jsp">Genentech</a> users from a variety of legacy systems such as Apple Mail, Exchange 2003, Sendmail MStore, and Thunderbird. Appirio also provided a range of value-added services including integration with new systems such as Magic Meeting Marker, end user training, and on-site support.<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloudreach and Small World Financial Services</span>: <a href="http://www.cloudreach.co.uk/home">Cloudreach</a>, a UK-based reseller, successfully migrated <a href="http://www.smallworldfs.com/">Small World Financial Services</a>, a family of retail financial services businesses that operates worldwide, from their legacy Microsoft Exchange and Kerio environment to Google Apps. In total, 500 users across 9 countries were migrated resulting in cost savings in excess of 75% annually against their legacy software license. Here's more:<br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Gwzr4SZeYLU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Gwzr4SZeYLU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloud Sherpas and Lincoln Propert</span>y (mid-market): <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, cloud computing systems integrator and application developer, assisted <a href="http://www.lincolnproperty.com/">Lincoln Property</a> with the configuration, implementation, change management and deployment support around their move to Google Apps. In addition to successfully migrating GroupWise mail and contacts data for 950 users, they implemented <a href="http://www.sherpatools.com/">SherpaTools</a>, a free app from Cloud Sherpas that provides additional IT management functions for admins and new features for employees.<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sheepdog and Evisu</span> (small business): <a href="http://www.sheepdoginc.ca/">Sheepdog</a> successfully migrated <a href="http://www.evisu.com/">Evisu</a> off of Microsoft Exchange 2003 in less than two weeks, allowing the company to avoid its renewal deadline. They also provided comprehensive Gmail and Calendar training for all users and continue to offer support as Evisu adds new users to Google Apps.<br />We recently kicked off our second year by hosting our first Google Apps Partner Advisory Board here at Google in Mountain View. Our partners provided valuable input on the best ways to continue to enrich our program. In 2010, we look forward to strengthening our reseller relationships and finding new ways to help our partners build sustainable, profitable cloud computing businesses. <br />If your firm is interested in Google Apps reselling and services, we invite you to learn more about the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_anniv">Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program</a> and join this growing movement.<br /><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S4K5-O_VFcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/1mG1zpN1uRk/s1600-h/logo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441115778643727810" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S4K5-O_VFcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/1mG1zpN1uRk/s320/logo.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 107px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;"></a><br />Posted by Stephen Cho, Director, Google Apps Channels </script> <noscript> When we launched the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_anniv">Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program</a> a year ago, a number of partners around the world were already actively helping customers of all sizes reduce IT costs and complexity while giving users the productivity tools they wanted – Gmail, Google Calendar, and more. Since then, millions of businesses have <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdAMLEujm5M">gone Google</a> – and our resellers, too, have gained momentum. With nearly 1,000 Google Apps Authorized Resellers from more than 50 countries now building successful Google Apps practices, we celebrate our partners' progress over the last year and look forward to them continuing to drive customer success with Google Apps in the years to come.<br />In a recent mark of this progress, the <a href="http://www.mspmentor.net/top-100-msps/">MSPmentor 100 Report for 2010</a>, which ranks top managed service providers worldwide, reports that already 22% of these top MSPs are now promoting Google Apps to their clients. <br />Our resellers represent a wide range of firms who assist businesses in adopting, leveraging, and extending Google Apps – from global systems integrators to smaller, specialized IT service providers. Acting as trusted advisors, these solution providers work to serve their clients' unique business needs and to improve user productivity via Google Apps at lower costs and with greater reliability.<br />In our first year, we launched some important tools to help our partners better serve customers, including our online Reseller Console for automated ordering, provisioning, and management of their Google Apps clients. Our <a href="http://apps.gepportal.com/reseller-getting-started">Solution Providers resource site</a> provides a full range of marketing, sales, and product information, while we also instituted a series of online webinars and live training sessions in Google offices around the world. <br />Conversations with channel firms at events hosted by Everything Channel, CompTIA, ConnectWise, and SMB Nation reinforced our belief that customer needs are well served when resellers act as the primary contact for provisioning, deployment, billing, and ongoing consulting and support.<br />We're especially excited about the relationships we've built with our partners over this first year. Some highlights include (in alphabetical order):<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Appirio and Genentech</span> (large enterprise): <a href="http://www.appirio.com/">Appirio</a>, a cloud solution provider, migrated 15,000 <a href="http://www.gene.com/gene/index.jsp">Genentech</a> users from a variety of legacy systems such as Apple Mail, Exchange 2003, Sendmail MStore, and Thunderbird. Appirio also provided a range of value-added services including integration with new systems such as Magic Meeting Marker, end user training, and on-site support.<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloudreach and Small World Financial Services</span>: <a href="http://www.cloudreach.co.uk/home">Cloudreach</a>, a UK-based reseller, successfully migrated <a href="http://www.smallworldfs.com/">Small World Financial Services</a>, a family of retail financial services businesses that operates worldwide, from their legacy Microsoft Exchange and Kerio environment to Google Apps. In total, 500 users across 9 countries were migrated resulting in cost savings in excess of 75% annually against their legacy software license. Here's more:<br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Gwzr4SZeYLU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Gwzr4SZeYLU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloud Sherpas and Lincoln Propert</span>y (mid-market): <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, cloud computing systems integrator and application developer, assisted <a href="http://www.lincolnproperty.com/">Lincoln Property</a> with the configuration, implementation, change management and deployment support around their move to Google Apps. In addition to successfully migrating GroupWise mail and contacts data for 950 users, they implemented <a href="http://www.sherpatools.com/">SherpaTools</a>, a free app from Cloud Sherpas that provides additional IT management functions for admins and new features for employees.<br />• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sheepdog and Evisu</span> (small business): <a href="http://www.sheepdoginc.ca/">Sheepdog</a> successfully migrated <a href="http://www.evisu.com/">Evisu</a> off of Microsoft Exchange 2003 in less than two weeks, allowing the company to avoid its renewal deadline. They also provided comprehensive Gmail and Calendar training for all users and continue to offer support as Evisu adds new users to Google Apps.<br />We recently kicked off our second year by hosting our first Google Apps Partner Advisory Board here at Google in Mountain View. Our partners provided valuable input on the best ways to continue to enrich our program. In 2010, we look forward to strengthening our reseller relationships and finding new ways to help our partners build sustainable, profitable cloud computing businesses. <br />If your firm is interested in Google Apps reselling and services, we invite you to learn more about the <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html#utm_campaign=gaar&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-gaar_ent&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=ent_blog_anniv">Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program</a> and join this growing movement.<br /><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S4K5-O_VFcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/1mG1zpN1uRk/s1600-h/logo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441115778643727810" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S4K5-O_VFcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/1mG1zpN1uRk/s320/logo.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 107px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;"></a><br />Posted by Stephen Cho, Director, Google Apps Channels </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Celebrating Google Apps Resellers – a year of customer success&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/celebrating-google-apps-resellers-year.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/developers' rel='tag'> developers </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partners' rel='tag'> partners </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6596219823992214406' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html' itemprop='url' title='Up Six: Discount Office Items Switches to Google Commerce Search and Increases Revenue 6%'> Up Six: Discount Office Items Switches to Google Commerce Search and Increases Revenue 6% </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, February 19, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37BiQECjwI/AAAAAAAAAQg/pldgqzsrnLQ/s1600-h/timPic.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439998194081763074" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37BiQECjwI/AAAAAAAAAQg/pldgqzsrnLQ/s200/timPic.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 177px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor's note:</span> Today’s guest blogger is Tim Horton, Co-Founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.discountofficeitems.com">DiscountOfficeItems.com</a>, one of the largest office supply superstores on the internet. Offering more than 65,000 name brand office supplies, technology products and office furniture, DiscountOfficeItems.com is an Inc. 500 and Internet Retailer Top 500 company.<br /><br />In late 2009 Tim and his team identified search as a problem area for their site and began researching eTail search solutions. When they saw a demo of <a href="//www.google.com/commercesearch/#utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gcs&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=doi_launch">Google Commerce Search</a>, they decided to switch and were able to integrate the new solution within their existing UI in less than a month. Almost immediately, they saw sizable lifts in revenue, traffic, transactions, and average order size.</span><br /><br />Tim will join Nitin Mangtani, Senior Product Manager at Google Enterprise on a <a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">live webcast</a> Thursday, March 4 at 10:00 a.m. PST / 1:00 p.m. EST to share his experience and answer questions about their decision to switch to Google Commerce Search. <br /><br />When I co-founded Discount Office Items in 2003, our main objective was to offer customers a large selection, low prices, and top-notch customer service. Our site experienced rapid growth and high overall customer satisfaction, but our homegrown search was sluggish and returned irrelevant results.<br /><br />In late 2009 we decided to evaluate Google Commerce Search and requested a demo. When we saw how fast we could recoup our spending and start making more money due to better, faster search, the decision to implement Google Commerce Search was clear. After the deployment process (which took just a couple of weeks including the winter holiday), we saw an immediate lift in revenue and traffic as well as transactions and searches done on our site.<br /><br />More people are using our site search now to find the right products – Google Commerce Search works well and the results are highly relevant. Search was one of the weakest parts of our site. Now, it’s one of the strongest – all with less load on our servers and less time spent on maintenance for the IT staff.<br /><br />Please join me and the Google Commerce Search team for this <a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">live webinar</a>:<br /><br /><a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">How Discount Office Items Increased Revenue 6% by Switching to Google Commerce Search<br /></a>Thursday, March 4, 2010<br />10:00 a.m. PST / 1:00 p.m. EST <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37ENXZJjkI/AAAAAAAAAQw/laOa1ZMJW4I/s1600-h/DOI.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440001133806980674" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37ENXZJjkI/AAAAAAAAAQw/laOa1ZMJW4I/s200/DOI.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 198px;"></a><br />You can contact our sales team, download the datasheet, or learn more on our <a href="//www.google.com/commercesearch/#utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gcs&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=doi_launch">website</a>. <br /><br />Posted by Eric Larson, Enterprise Search Deployment Engineer </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37BiQECjwI/AAAAAAAAAQg/pldgqzsrnLQ/s1600-h/timPic.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439998194081763074" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37BiQECjwI/AAAAAAAAAQg/pldgqzsrnLQ/s200/timPic.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 177px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor's note:</span> Today’s guest blogger is Tim Horton, Co-Founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.discountofficeitems.com">DiscountOfficeItems.com</a>, one of the largest office supply superstores on the internet. Offering more than 65,000 name brand office supplies, technology products and office furniture, DiscountOfficeItems.com is an Inc. 500 and Internet Retailer Top 500 company.<br /><br />In late 2009 Tim and his team identified search as a problem area for their site and began researching eTail search solutions. When they saw a demo of <a href="//www.google.com/commercesearch/#utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gcs&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=doi_launch">Google Commerce Search</a>, they decided to switch and were able to integrate the new solution within their existing UI in less than a month. Almost immediately, they saw sizable lifts in revenue, traffic, transactions, and average order size.</span><br /><br />Tim will join Nitin Mangtani, Senior Product Manager at Google Enterprise on a <a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">live webcast</a> Thursday, March 4 at 10:00 a.m. PST / 1:00 p.m. EST to share his experience and answer questions about their decision to switch to Google Commerce Search. <br /><br />When I co-founded Discount Office Items in 2003, our main objective was to offer customers a large selection, low prices, and top-notch customer service. Our site experienced rapid growth and high overall customer satisfaction, but our homegrown search was sluggish and returned irrelevant results.<br /><br />In late 2009 we decided to evaluate Google Commerce Search and requested a demo. When we saw how fast we could recoup our spending and start making more money due to better, faster search, the decision to implement Google Commerce Search was clear. After the deployment process (which took just a couple of weeks including the winter holiday), we saw an immediate lift in revenue and traffic as well as transactions and searches done on our site.<br /><br />More people are using our site search now to find the right products – Google Commerce Search works well and the results are highly relevant. Search was one of the weakest parts of our site. Now, it’s one of the strongest – all with less load on our servers and less time spent on maintenance for the IT staff.<br /><br />Please join me and the Google Commerce Search team for this <a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">live webinar</a>:<br /><br /><a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=193249&sessionid=1&key=F38671E77090A97DB6CDD47495A110BA&partnerref=ggl&sourcepage=register">How Discount Office Items Increased Revenue 6% by Switching to Google Commerce Search<br /></a>Thursday, March 4, 2010<br />10:00 a.m. PST / 1:00 p.m. EST <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37ENXZJjkI/AAAAAAAAAQw/laOa1ZMJW4I/s1600-h/DOI.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440001133806980674" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S37ENXZJjkI/AAAAAAAAAQw/laOa1ZMJW4I/s200/DOI.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 198px;"></a><br />You can contact our sales team, download the datasheet, or learn more on our <a href="//www.google.com/commercesearch/#utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gcs&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=doi_launch">website</a>. <br /><br />Posted by Eric Larson, Enterprise Search Deployment Engineer </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Up Six: Discount Office Items Switches to Google Commerce Search and Increases Revenue 6%&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='8' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/up-six-discount-office-items-switches.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%20commerce%20search' rel='tag'> google commerce search </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8744446739283474918' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html' itemprop='url' title='Lincoln Property Company finds a new home with Google Apps'> Lincoln Property Company finds a new home with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, February 8, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArWSMHL3I/AAAAAAAAAQA/0lHoAucD-M8/s1600-h/jay.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435892412075945842" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArWSMHL3I/AAAAAAAAAQA/0lHoAucD-M8/s200/jay.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor's note: </span>Today’s guest blogger is Jay Kenney, CIO of Lincoln Property Company, a residential property management and development company. Prior to joining Lincoln Property, Jay was a Managing Director at BearingPoint for eight years and spent 19 years at SBC (now AT&T).<br /><br />Last year Jay inherited a Novell Groupwise system powering email for 950 of his firm's approximately 3,500 employees. After careful consideration, Lincoln Property migrated from Groupwise to Google Apps, saving the company $200K – and enabling Jay to provide all 3,500 employees with company email.<br /><br />Jay will be available on a<a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807"> live webcast</a> this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. PST, 2:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. GMT to share his experience and answer questions about Lincoln Property Company's experience in switching to Google Apps. Michael Cohn from Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps Authorized Reseller, will also be on hand to answer questions about the migration process.</span><br /><br />Lincoln Property is the fifth largest property manager in the United States. When I joined the company, 950 of our 3,500 employees were using Novell Groupwise for email. We were maintaining an expensive infrastructure including servers, a SAN and data center space. It was difficult to maintain our email archive. It was also tough to find IT staff skilled in Groupwise. At the same time, we were looking to outsource as many of our mission-critical applications as possible.<br /><br />Evaluating our options, we first considered remaining with Groupwise or switching to Microsoft Exchange. At the prodding of one of our tech-savvy partners, we tried out Google Apps and liked what we found. We did a comprehensive TCO analysis that included licensing and maintenance, data center costs, spam protection, server, SAN, migration costs, you name it.<br /><br />The business case was clear. At approximately $200K per year cheaper than the existing system and infrastructure, Google Apps would provide email, instant messaging, great mobile options, and AV/AS protection for just $50/user/year. And, we would be able to equip all 3,500 employees with company email instead of just the 950 who were on the legacy on premise system.<br /><br />After trialing Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail's integrated chat, we made the move to Google Apps. Cloud Sherpas was instrumental in helping us extract email and contacts data out of GroupWise and migrate it into Google Apps for 950 users in a phased migration. They also provided webinar and video training to ease our users through the transition.<br /><br />Now we are on track to migrate our remaining 2,500 users in 2010. The results so far have been stellar. I’d be happy to share the lessons we’ve learned – what we did that I’m glad we did!<br /><br />Please join me for this <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807">live webinar</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807">Lincoln Property Company finds a new home with Google Apps</a><br />Thursday, February 11, 2009<br />11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArtWqUYwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/RumpWyGJ68c/s1600-h/LPC.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435892808413373186" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArtWqUYwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/RumpWyGJ68c/s320/LPC.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 39px;"></a><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">IBM Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArWSMHL3I/AAAAAAAAAQA/0lHoAucD-M8/s1600-h/jay.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435892412075945842" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArWSMHL3I/AAAAAAAAAQA/0lHoAucD-M8/s200/jay.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;"></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Editor's note: </span>Today’s guest blogger is Jay Kenney, CIO of Lincoln Property Company, a residential property management and development company. Prior to joining Lincoln Property, Jay was a Managing Director at BearingPoint for eight years and spent 19 years at SBC (now AT&T).<br /><br />Last year Jay inherited a Novell Groupwise system powering email for 950 of his firm's approximately 3,500 employees. After careful consideration, Lincoln Property migrated from Groupwise to Google Apps, saving the company $200K – and enabling Jay to provide all 3,500 employees with company email.<br /><br />Jay will be available on a<a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807"> live webcast</a> this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. PST, 2:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. GMT to share his experience and answer questions about Lincoln Property Company's experience in switching to Google Apps. Michael Cohn from Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps Authorized Reseller, will also be on hand to answer questions about the migration process.</span><br /><br />Lincoln Property is the fifth largest property manager in the United States. When I joined the company, 950 of our 3,500 employees were using Novell Groupwise for email. We were maintaining an expensive infrastructure including servers, a SAN and data center space. It was difficult to maintain our email archive. It was also tough to find IT staff skilled in Groupwise. At the same time, we were looking to outsource as many of our mission-critical applications as possible.<br /><br />Evaluating our options, we first considered remaining with Groupwise or switching to Microsoft Exchange. At the prodding of one of our tech-savvy partners, we tried out Google Apps and liked what we found. We did a comprehensive TCO analysis that included licensing and maintenance, data center costs, spam protection, server, SAN, migration costs, you name it.<br /><br />The business case was clear. At approximately $200K per year cheaper than the existing system and infrastructure, Google Apps would provide email, instant messaging, great mobile options, and AV/AS protection for just $50/user/year. And, we would be able to equip all 3,500 employees with company email instead of just the 950 who were on the legacy on premise system.<br /><br />After trialing Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail's integrated chat, we made the move to Google Apps. Cloud Sherpas was instrumental in helping us extract email and contacts data out of GroupWise and migrate it into Google Apps for 950 users in a phased migration. They also provided webinar and video training to ease our users through the transition.<br /><br />Now we are on track to migrate our remaining 2,500 users in 2010. The results so far have been stellar. I’d be happy to share the lessons we’ve learned – what we did that I’m glad we did!<br /><br />Please join me for this <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807">live webinar</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1300807">Lincoln Property Company finds a new home with Google Apps</a><br />Thursday, February 11, 2009<br />11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArtWqUYwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/RumpWyGJ68c/s1600-h/LPC.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435892808413373186" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S3ArtWqUYwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/RumpWyGJ68c/s320/LPC.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 39px;"></a><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team<br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer">IBM Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Lincoln Property Company finds a new home with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/02/lincoln-property-company-finds-new-home.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6877040913941305113' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/01/achieving-near-zero-touch-conversion.html' itemprop='url' title='Achieving a near zero-touch conversion process with Google Apps'> Achieving a near zero-touch conversion process with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, January 13, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04sEvZxKrI/AAAAAAAAANg/kc2ZAFwXkkQ/s1600-h/Elliot_Tally_headshot.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426323060983671474" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04sEvZxKrI/AAAAAAAAANg/kc2ZAFwXkkQ/s200/Elliot_Tally_headshot.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 200px;"></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Editor's note: </span>Today’s guest blogger is Elliot Tally, Director of IT Collaboration and Automation f</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">or Sanmina-SCI, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering end-to-end manufacturing solution<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s for</span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> communications, medical, defense and aerospace, industrial, renewable energy, and other sectors</span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Elliot has</span></span> more than ten years of experience in high-tech manufacturing and information systems spanning a breadth of industries. He is responsible for enterprise collaboration and messaging systems, process automation and integration, and for Sanmina-SCI's suite of IT applications. </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><br /><br />Last year, Sanmina-SCI's IT team asked themselves, "Could Google Apps replace Microsoft Exchange for a global, multilingual workforce?" After careful due diligence, the team recently completed a phased migration for 15,000 email users, charting a new course for IT. Elliot and his team will be available on a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107" title="live webcast">live webcast</a> next Thursday to talk about the migration and answer questions from participants. </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Sanmina-SCI is a leader in outsourced Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). We have 37,000 diverse employees and our business is very competitive. We needed something that was less expensive to maintain and provided better collaboration tools than what our incumbent vendor, Microsoft, offered.</span><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">After <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/sanmina-sci-on-kicking-google-apps.html">putting Google through the test in more ways than you can imagine</a> we decided that Google Apps was the way to go – especially after we saw collaboration tools like Google Sites. Then our job was to migrate 15,000 users <span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in </span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">18</span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> co</span></span>untries...no small feat.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We started with several pilots to pinpoint any issues up front, and we conducted user surveys along the way to be sure we knew what users were facing. Many users got very excited. They knew they could get email from anywhere, and have access to collaborative tools like spreadsheets and instant messaging. We also gained valuable feedback on workflows and other issues we'd need to have a plan for during the migration.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">From the start, we provided more than just a "here’s what we’re going to do, take it or leave it” approach. We were serious about ensuring that a certain set of activities happened in terms of communication and training, and showing people the features of Google Apps so they knew they were not missing anything. Then we would migrate a whole plant in less than a week. But the upfront training and familiarization process was paramount to our success. In all, the conversion went faster and easier than we anticipated.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One of the key factors was support from senior executives, who helped us drive and obtain support across the organization. We did get pushback from some employees but we spent time with them and showed them that, from a user experience standpoint, it might work differently, but they weren’t losing functionality.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the end, we came close to our goal of a zero-touch conversion process as an IT team. It was a pretty highly automated, self-service conversion in moving everyone over. There were some gaps, but overall we are pleased with how quickly and efficiently the conversion went.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I’d be happy to share what we learned at Sanmina-SCI as a large enterprise that has made the move to Google Apps. We hope that you'll <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107" title="Join us for this LIVE Event on">join us for this live event</a>.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107">Migrating 15,000 users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, by Sanmina-SCI</a><br />Thursday, January 14, 2010<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04r0hHflxI/AAAAAAAAANY/OBKpffmQaYE/s1600-h/Sanmina-SCILogo_Reg_Med.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426322782271018770" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04r0hHflxI/AAAAAAAAANY/OBKpffmQaYE/s200/Sanmina-SCILogo_Reg_Med.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 90px;"></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Find customer stories and research product information on our</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">resource sites for current users of</span></span> <a href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_footer" target="_blank"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>Microsoft Exchange</u></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span></span><a href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-lotus_footer" target="_blank"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>Lotus Notes/Domino</u></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></p> </script> <noscript> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04sEvZxKrI/AAAAAAAAANg/kc2ZAFwXkkQ/s1600-h/Elliot_Tally_headshot.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426323060983671474" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04sEvZxKrI/AAAAAAAAANg/kc2ZAFwXkkQ/s200/Elliot_Tally_headshot.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 200px;"></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Editor's note: </span>Today’s guest blogger is Elliot Tally, Director of IT Collaboration and Automation f</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">or Sanmina-SCI, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering end-to-end manufacturing solution<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s for</span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> communications, medical, defense and aerospace, industrial, renewable energy, and other sectors</span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Elliot has</span></span> more than ten years of experience in high-tech manufacturing and information systems spanning a breadth of industries. He is responsible for enterprise collaboration and messaging systems, process automation and integration, and for Sanmina-SCI's suite of IT applications. </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><br /><br />Last year, Sanmina-SCI's IT team asked themselves, "Could Google Apps replace Microsoft Exchange for a global, multilingual workforce?" After careful due diligence, the team recently completed a phased migration for 15,000 email users, charting a new course for IT. Elliot and his team will be available on a <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107" title="live webcast">live webcast</a> next Thursday to talk about the migration and answer questions from participants. </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Sanmina-SCI is a leader in outsourced Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). We have 37,000 diverse employees and our business is very competitive. We needed something that was less expensive to maintain and provided better collaboration tools than what our incumbent vendor, Microsoft, offered.</span><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">After <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/sanmina-sci-on-kicking-google-apps.html">putting Google through the test in more ways than you can imagine</a> we decided that Google Apps was the way to go – especially after we saw collaboration tools like Google Sites. Then our job was to migrate 15,000 users <span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in </span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">18</span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> co</span></span>untries...no small feat.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We started with several pilots to pinpoint any issues up front, and we conducted user surveys along the way to be sure we knew what users were facing. Many users got very excited. They knew they could get email from anywhere, and have access to collaborative tools like spreadsheets and instant messaging. We also gained valuable feedback on workflows and other issues we'd need to have a plan for during the migration.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">From the start, we provided more than just a "here’s what we’re going to do, take it or leave it” approach. We were serious about ensuring that a certain set of activities happened in terms of communication and training, and showing people the features of Google Apps so they knew they were not missing anything. Then we would migrate a whole plant in less than a week. But the upfront training and familiarization process was paramount to our success. In all, the conversion went faster and easier than we anticipated.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One of the key factors was support from senior executives, who helped us drive and obtain support across the organization. We did get pushback from some employees but we spent time with them and showed them that, from a user experience standpoint, it might work differently, but they weren’t losing functionality.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the end, we came close to our goal of a zero-touch conversion process as an IT team. It was a pretty highly automated, self-service conversion in moving everyone over. There were some gaps, but overall we are pleased with how quickly and efficiently the conversion went.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I’d be happy to share what we learned at Sanmina-SCI as a large enterprise that has made the move to Google Apps. We hope that you'll <a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107" title="Join us for this LIVE Event on">join us for this live event</a>.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1205107">Migrating 15,000 users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, by Sanmina-SCI</a><br />Thursday, January 14, 2010<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04r0hHflxI/AAAAAAAAANY/OBKpffmQaYE/s1600-h/Sanmina-SCILogo_Reg_Med.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426322782271018770" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/S04r0hHflxI/AAAAAAAAANY/OBKpffmQaYE/s200/Sanmina-SCILogo_Reg_Med.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 90px;"></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Find customer stories and research product information on our</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">resource sites for current users of</span></span> <a 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class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2602649958481899440' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Why the City of Los Angeles chose Google'> Why the City of Los Angeles chose Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, December 14, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Editor's Note: </span>In October, the City of Los Angeles – the second largest city in the United States – decided to switch its email to Google, a decision supported in a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council. </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">We've invited Randi Levin, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Los Angeles and general manager of the city's Information Technology Agency, to provide more insight into the reasons behind this decision.</span><br /><br />Los Angeles is going Google. After a rigorous evaluation process to select the best email solution for the city, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/cloud-apps-big-city-la-goes-google.html">Los Angeles recently decided to move all 30,000 city employees to Google Apps</a> from our existing GroupWise email system.<br /><br />City employees fulfill a range of important functions – from policing our streets to supplying water and power to city residents and businesses, and from operating our libraries to designing and building wastewater treatment plants and other public facilities. We want to provide all these employees with modern tools that help them do their jobs. Some of the benefits our employees will see from the suite of Google applications include:<br /></span><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Improved collaboration. </span>Much of the city's work requires multiple people – even multiple departments – to work together. With instant messaging, video conferencing, and simultaneous review and editing of documents by multiple people, employees will have better tools to work together on projects. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Easier remote access. </span>In a fast-paced city government, people often need access to work information when they're not at work. With Google, employees will be able to access their information from any computer with an internet connection, as well as from their mobile phones.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expanded storage. </span>With Google, we can provide employees 25x the email storage they have today, saving them from having to make difficult decisions about which emails to keep or delete.</span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >In addition to empowering employees across the city, everyone will benefit from Google's security controls, which will provide a higher level of security for City data than exists with our current system.<br /><br />Google Apps will also help conserve resources in the city's Information & Technology Agency (ITA), which is responsible for researching, testing & implementing new technologies in ways that make Los Angeles a better place to live, work and play. Because the email and other applications are hosted and maintained by Google, ITA employees who previously were responsible for maintaining our email system can be freed up to work on projects that are central to making the city run.<br /><br />By ITA estimates, Google Apps will save the city of Los Angeles millions of dollars by allowing us to shift resources currently dedicated to email to other purposes. For example, moving to Google will free up nearly 100 servers that were used for our existing email system, which will lower our electricity bills by almost $750,000 over five years. In short, this decision helps us to get the most out of the city's IT budget.<br /><br />The decision to move to Google Apps was not taken lightly. The city issued a request for proposals and received 15 proposals, which were evaluated by city officials. The top four proposals were invited to give oral presentations, with <a href="http://www.csc.com/CaliforniaCloud" target="_blank">CSC</a>'s proposal for Google Apps receiving the highest marks. This decision was reviewed and discussed by the Los Angeles City Council which, after a healthy debate, voted unanimously to move forward with Google Apps.<br /><br />Learn more about this installation here:<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Sa9fg8tLlIs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Sa9fg8tLlIs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />Many other government agencies across California and around the country have already reached out to us to learn more. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, Los Angeles found Google's system availability of 99.9% and service levels for response in the event of an issue to be equivalent – if not better – to what we could provide ourselves. Together with the cost savings, it all adds up to a compelling argument for government agencies both small and large.<br /><br />We still have work ahead of us, but we're excited to be moving forward with Google and CSC to bring state of the art email and collaboration tools to the employees of the City of Los Angeles.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Randi Levin, Chief Technology Officer, City of Los Angeles<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Posted by Dan Israel, Google Enterprise team<br /></span> </script> <noscript> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Editor's Note: </span>In October, the City of Los Angeles – the second largest city in the United States – decided to switch its email to Google, a decision supported in a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council. </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">We've invited Randi Levin, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Los Angeles and general manager of the city's Information Technology Agency, to provide more insight into the reasons behind this decision.</span><br /><br />Los Angeles is going Google. After a rigorous evaluation process to select the best email solution for the city, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/cloud-apps-big-city-la-goes-google.html">Los Angeles recently decided to move all 30,000 city employees to Google Apps</a> from our existing GroupWise email system.<br /><br />City employees fulfill a range of important functions – from policing our streets to supplying water and power to city residents and businesses, and from operating our libraries to designing and building wastewater treatment plants and other public facilities. We want to provide all these employees with modern tools that help them do their jobs. Some of the benefits our employees will see from the suite of Google applications include:<br /></span><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Improved collaboration. </span>Much of the city's work requires multiple people – even multiple departments – to work together. With instant messaging, video conferencing, and simultaneous review and editing of documents by multiple people, employees will have better tools to work together on projects. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Easier remote access. </span>In a fast-paced city government, people often need access to work information when they're not at work. With Google, employees will be able to access their information from any computer with an internet connection, as well as from their mobile phones.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expanded storage. </span>With Google, we can provide employees 25x the email storage they have today, saving them from having to make difficult decisions about which emails to keep or delete.</span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >In addition to empowering employees across the city, everyone will benefit from Google's security controls, which will provide a higher level of security for City data than exists with our current system.<br /><br />Google Apps will also help conserve resources in the city's Information & Technology Agency (ITA), which is responsible for researching, testing & implementing new technologies in ways that make Los Angeles a better place to live, work and play. Because the email and other applications are hosted and maintained by Google, ITA employees who previously were responsible for maintaining our email system can be freed up to work on projects that are central to making the city run.<br /><br />By ITA estimates, Google Apps will save the city of Los Angeles millions of dollars by allowing us to shift resources currently dedicated to email to other purposes. For example, moving to Google will free up nearly 100 servers that were used for our existing email system, which will lower our electricity bills by almost $750,000 over five years. In short, this decision helps us to get the most out of the city's IT budget.<br /><br />The decision to move to Google Apps was not taken lightly. The city issued a request for proposals and received 15 proposals, which were evaluated by city officials. The top four proposals were invited to give oral presentations, with <a href="http://www.csc.com/CaliforniaCloud" target="_blank">CSC</a>'s proposal for Google Apps receiving the highest marks. This decision was reviewed and discussed by the Los Angeles City Council which, after a healthy debate, voted unanimously to move forward with Google Apps.<br /><br />Learn more about this installation here:<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/Sa9fg8tLlIs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/Sa9fg8tLlIs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />Many other government agencies across California and around the country have already reached out to us to learn more. In addition to the benefits mentioned above, Los Angeles found Google's system availability of 99.9% and service levels for response in the event of an issue to be equivalent – if not better – to what we could provide ourselves. Together with the cost savings, it all adds up to a compelling argument for government agencies both small and large.<br /><br />We still have work ahead of us, but we're excited to be moving forward with Google and CSC to bring state of the art email and collaboration tools to the employees of the City of Los Angeles.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Randi Levin, Chief Technology Officer, City of Los Angeles<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Posted by Dan Israel, Google Enterprise team<br /></span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Why the City of Los Angeles chose Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='13' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/government' rel='tag'> government </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4229183126034106895' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/12/mattson-technology-switches-to-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Mattson Technology switches to Google Apps and saves 70%'> Mattson Technology switches to Google Apps and saves 70% </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, December 8, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/Sx6483Au0sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/meSohycEOLo/s1600-h/Mattson.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412967157844595394" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/Sx6483Au0sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/meSohycEOLo/s200/Mattson.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;"></a></span><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Editor’s note: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our guest blogger today is Matt Hough, Director of Global IT for Mattson Technology, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (NAND, RAM and LOGIC). Matt will be speaking on a </span></span><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">live webcast</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> this Thursday, December 10, at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT (registration will occur on a third party site).</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Mattson’s headquarters are in Fremont, California, but we have offices in Germany, Canada, Korea and Taiwan. Our IT staff supports 600 users with a wide variety of needs, from engineers/designers, to sales, manufacturing and customer support in India.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We wanted to put more power in users' hands and, as an IT team, get away from administering basic functions so we could focus on the business and run a leaner operation. For email, we had Microsoft Exchange and we calculated it was costing us $172 per user per year. The speed internationallywasn’t that great because our Exchange servers were in Germany and people had to have VPN access.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We compared Google Apps Premier Edition to messaging solutions from Microsoft (too expensive) and Cisco (also out of our price range). Migration is a distant memory because it was relatively easy and required only a day of training.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Google Apps was a pleasant surprise, if you think about what you get for $50 per user per year ($4.17/month). The security is great and, in addition to email and calendaring, it also provides us with an online knowledge database created using Google Sites. Previously, our engineers and other groups put resolution documents or published articles on network file shares. Today, they use Google Sites to create websites by product to host documents related to new engineering releases and engineering problem-solving documents. We use this information in the field to quickly diagnose issues. </span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We went from silos of knowledge to a transparent online community that allows everyone to share and contribute information. As another example, we built a site to collaborate on customer issues that features video chat and shared documents. Now we can address customer issues more quickly.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Google Apps has changed the way we do business – we’re even looking to extend ERP to the web. We turned off four servers and we’re communicating better than ever before. We’re more organized. We don’t lose emails, and we no longer spend time looking for them. Google translates everything for us in all the languages we operate in, which is huge. The biggest benefit is that our productivity has increased because we're collaborating a lot better.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our CEO and CFO love Google Apps. In fact, the CEO sent us an email saying, “I'm so glad you're moving our company forward,” and our CFO tells me all the time how much he appreciates easy access to what he needs from wherever he’s traveling. As an IT person, I feel proud. We have bragging rights now because we’ve implemented something that helps us work together better – while at the same time cutting our capital expenditures.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I will be speaking on a </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">live webcast</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> on Thursday. I invite you to join us with your questions.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Saving 70% with Google Apps over Microsoft Exchange</span></span></a></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thursday, December 10, 2009</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">p.m.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> GMT</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(note that you will be directed to a third party registration page)</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&u">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> </script> <noscript> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/Sx6483Au0sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/meSohycEOLo/s1600-h/Mattson.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412967157844595394" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/Sx6483Au0sI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/meSohycEOLo/s200/Mattson.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;"></a></span><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Editor’s note: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our guest blogger today is Matt Hough, Director of Global IT for Mattson Technology, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (NAND, RAM and LOGIC). Matt will be speaking on a </span></span><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">live webcast</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> this Thursday, December 10, at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT (registration will occur on a third party site).</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Mattson’s headquarters are in Fremont, California, but we have offices in Germany, Canada, Korea and Taiwan. Our IT staff supports 600 users with a wide variety of needs, from engineers/designers, to sales, manufacturing and customer support in India.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We wanted to put more power in users' hands and, as an IT team, get away from administering basic functions so we could focus on the business and run a leaner operation. For email, we had Microsoft Exchange and we calculated it was costing us $172 per user per year. The speed internationallywasn’t that great because our Exchange servers were in Germany and people had to have VPN access.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We compared Google Apps Premier Edition to messaging solutions from Microsoft (too expensive) and Cisco (also out of our price range). Migration is a distant memory because it was relatively easy and required only a day of training.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Google Apps was a pleasant surprise, if you think about what you get for $50 per user per year ($4.17/month). The security is great and, in addition to email and calendaring, it also provides us with an online knowledge database created using Google Sites. Previously, our engineers and other groups put resolution documents or published articles on network file shares. Today, they use Google Sites to create websites by product to host documents related to new engineering releases and engineering problem-solving documents. We use this information in the field to quickly diagnose issues. </span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We went from silos of knowledge to a transparent online community that allows everyone to share and contribute information. As another example, we built a site to collaborate on customer issues that features video chat and shared documents. Now we can address customer issues more quickly.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Google Apps has changed the way we do business – we’re even looking to extend ERP to the web. We turned off four servers and we’re communicating better than ever before. We’re more organized. We don’t lose emails, and we no longer spend time looking for them. Google translates everything for us in all the languages we operate in, which is huge. The biggest benefit is that our productivity has increased because we're collaborating a lot better.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our CEO and CFO love Google Apps. In fact, the CEO sent us an email saying, “I'm so glad you're moving our company forward,” and our CFO tells me all the time how much he appreciates easy access to what he needs from wherever he’s traveling. As an IT person, I feel proud. We have bragging rights now because we’ve implemented something that helps us work together better – while at the same time cutting our capital expenditures.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I will be speaking on a </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">live webcast</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> on Thursday. I invite you to join us with your questions.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://webcasts.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1186711"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Saving 70% with Google Apps over Microsoft Exchange</span></span></a></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thursday, December 10, 2009</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">p.m.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> GMT</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(note that you will be directed to a third party registration page)</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&u">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/notes.html#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share 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class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/IT' rel='tag'> IT </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6234281322837542398' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html' itemprop='url' title='Three reasons to consider Google Apps'> Three reasons to consider Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, November 30, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/SxQVaHM2A0I/AAAAAAAAAL8/trm5JTTl16o/s1600/JohnBuckholz-v5a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409972590732510018" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/SxQVaHM2A0I/AAAAAAAAAL8/trm5JTTl16o/s200/JohnBuckholz-v5a.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 192px;"></a><i style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is John Buckholz, VP of Information Technology for LCC International, Inc., a global wireless engineering company with 1,200 employees in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Following eight years as a management consultant with Accenture, John has since led the IT groups at three global companies. John has managed Lotus cc:Mail, IBM Notes/Domino, and Microsoft Exchange systems during his career, but his most recent choice for messaging and collaboration is Google Apps.<br /><br />John will be speaking on a <a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">live webcast</a> this Thursday at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />LCC International designs, builds, operates, and maintains wireless networks throughout the world. We have a diverse user base, including field technicians who collect statistics on cell phone signals, radio frequency engineers who use applications specific to our industry, and administrative staff who support the business operations. We operate in more than 20 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. With standard workweeks varying by country, along with the various time zones across the globe, our workforce operates around the clock, 365 days a year – which means a lot of coordination to keep everyone in sync.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >For email, we had most recently been using Microsoft Exchange. Prior to that, we had IBM Notes/Domino and before that, Lotus cc:Mail. The company intranet was based on Microsoft SharePoint. These on-premise solutions required a fair amount of ongoing support and maintenance. We had a total of 10 IT people supporting all of our systems, and we frequently found ourselves addressing issues on weekends, especially early on Saturday mornings as our colleagues in some countries were starting their workweek. We were stretched too thin with covering all of these products around the clock. It felt like firefighting a lot of the time. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />We wanted a solution that would lower our overall costs and free up IT time. At the same time, we knew that we couldn't afford to have downtime. We initially wondered if Google Apps was enterprise-ready. Then we attended </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://tbd/" target="_blank">a webcast featuring Genentech</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >, and we thought to ourselves, “If Google Apps are good enough for Genentech, it’s good enough for us.”</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />We conducted a pilot, and, to our surprise, everything was silent. We thought no one was using the Apps. But it turns out that people were doing fine and accessing Google’s training materials on their own when they had questions. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />That’s when we decided to move into the cloud in earnest. We’ve been on Google Apps for one year now, after what I would say was a fairly easy transition with a little help from </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.sadasystems.com/" target="_blank">SADA Systems</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >, a Google Apps partner. We now have good email service, including reliable access for mobile users. We collaborate on documents using Google Docs. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />And we converted the company intranet from SharePoint to Google Sites. We took the least experienced person on our IT staff and asked him to try converting the intranet to Google Sites. He really amazed us. With no formal training, he just built the whole thing. It’s a testament to how easy Google Apps is to learn and use. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />With Google Apps, we are now saving 60% over other alternatives, and my team no longer spends their weekends monitoring system uptime and addressing email issues. Most importantly, IT has been able to shift resources to more mission-critical initiatives. We now have a smaller IT team and a much less complex environment. A few short years ago, we were slaying dragons day and night. Now, we can all get down to supporting the business in more strategic ways.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />I’d be delighted to share my insights and top three reasons to consider making a move to Google Apps. Please join us for “</span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">LCC International on three reasons to consider Google Apps</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">.</span>”</span><b style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">Join us for this LIVE Event on</a>:<br />Thursday, December 3, 2009<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&u" target="_blank">Microsoft Exchange</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > and </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_" target="_blank">Lotus Notes/Domino</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE 12/02/09:</span> Our apologies for the faulty link in the first reference to this webinar. We've corrected it and are sharing the direct link here: http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191. We're sorry for the confusion.<br /></span> </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/SxQVaHM2A0I/AAAAAAAAAL8/trm5JTTl16o/s1600/JohnBuckholz-v5a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409972590732510018" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_jSdgG4-DeNE/SxQVaHM2A0I/AAAAAAAAAL8/trm5JTTl16o/s200/JohnBuckholz-v5a.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 192px;"></a><i style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Editor's note: </b>Today’s guest blogger is John Buckholz, VP of Information Technology for LCC International, Inc., a global wireless engineering company with 1,200 employees in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Following eight years as a management consultant with Accenture, John has since led the IT groups at three global companies. John has managed Lotus cc:Mail, IBM Notes/Domino, and Microsoft Exchange systems during his career, but his most recent choice for messaging and collaboration is Google Apps.<br /><br />John will be speaking on a <a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">live webcast</a> this Thursday at 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />LCC International designs, builds, operates, and maintains wireless networks throughout the world. We have a diverse user base, including field technicians who collect statistics on cell phone signals, radio frequency engineers who use applications specific to our industry, and administrative staff who support the business operations. We operate in more than 20 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. With standard workweeks varying by country, along with the various time zones across the globe, our workforce operates around the clock, 365 days a year – which means a lot of coordination to keep everyone in sync.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >For email, we had most recently been using Microsoft Exchange. Prior to that, we had IBM Notes/Domino and before that, Lotus cc:Mail. The company intranet was based on Microsoft SharePoint. These on-premise solutions required a fair amount of ongoing support and maintenance. We had a total of 10 IT people supporting all of our systems, and we frequently found ourselves addressing issues on weekends, especially early on Saturday mornings as our colleagues in some countries were starting their workweek. We were stretched too thin with covering all of these products around the clock. It felt like firefighting a lot of the time. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />We wanted a solution that would lower our overall costs and free up IT time. At the same time, we knew that we couldn't afford to have downtime. We initially wondered if Google Apps was enterprise-ready. Then we attended </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://tbd/" target="_blank">a webcast featuring Genentech</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >, and we thought to ourselves, “If Google Apps are good enough for Genentech, it’s good enough for us.”</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />We conducted a pilot, and, to our surprise, everything was silent. We thought no one was using the Apps. But it turns out that people were doing fine and accessing Google’s training materials on their own when they had questions. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />That’s when we decided to move into the cloud in earnest. We’ve been on Google Apps for one year now, after what I would say was a fairly easy transition with a little help from </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.sadasystems.com/" target="_blank">SADA Systems</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >, a Google Apps partner. We now have good email service, including reliable access for mobile users. We collaborate on documents using Google Docs. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />And we converted the company intranet from SharePoint to Google Sites. We took the least experienced person on our IT staff and asked him to try converting the intranet to Google Sites. He really amazed us. With no formal training, he just built the whole thing. It’s a testament to how easy Google Apps is to learn and use. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />With Google Apps, we are now saving 60% over other alternatives, and my team no longer spends their weekends monitoring system uptime and addressing email issues. Most importantly, IT has been able to shift resources to more mission-critical initiatives. We now have a smaller IT team and a much less complex environment. A few short years ago, we were slaying dragons day and night. Now, we can all get down to supporting the business in more strategic ways.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />I’d be delighted to share my insights and top three reasons to consider making a move to Google Apps. Please join us for “</span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">LCC International on three reasons to consider Google Apps</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">.</span>”</span><b style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191" target="_blank">Join us for this LIVE Event on</a>:<br />Thursday, December 3, 2009<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br /><br /></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&u" target="_blank">Microsoft Exchange</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > and </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_" target="_blank">Lotus Notes/Domino</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE 12/02/09:</span> Our apologies for the faulty link in the first reference to this webinar. We've corrected it and are sharing the direct link here: http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1181191. We're sorry for the confusion.<br /></span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Three reasons to consider Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='11' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/three-reasons-to-consider-google-apps.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/webinar' rel='tag'> webinar </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4270364588612784535' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server now connects businesses of all sizes'> Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server now connects businesses of all sizes </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, November 24, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> When we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html" id="q23v" target="_blank" title="launched">launched</a> the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server in August, we focused on addressing the needs of companies operating their own BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, typically supporting a couple hundred BlackBerry smartphone users per server.<br /><br />Of course, companies of all sizes are adopting Google Apps, and their needs for supporting BlackBerry smartphones are as diverse as their businesses. So today we're making it easier for companies large and small to manage their BlackBerry smartphones and save money.<br /><br />With Google Apps Connector for BES version 1.5, large businesses can now support 500 BlackBerry devices per server, double the previous capacity. This lets them serve more users with fewer servers.<br /><br />Small businesses get more flexibility too. The Apps Connector now supports BlackBerry Professional Software, which is designed for up to 30 BlackBerry smartphones. We've also made it possible for a single BlackBerry Enterprise Server to serve users across multiple companies, enabling low-cost hosting services to be offered by hosting partners.<br /><br />Stay tuned for more announcements from partners offering hosting services for Google Apps customers with BlackBerry smartphones. In the meantime, we're going to continue to make it easier for you to manage mobile devices of all types with <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/mobile.html#utm_campaign=gbes15&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gbes15&utm_medium=blog" id="nfxz" target="_blank" title="Google Apps">Google Apps</a>.<br /><br />Posted by Zhengping Zuo, Software Engineer and Darrell Kuhn, Site Reliability Engineer </script> <noscript> When we <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html" id="q23v" target="_blank" title="launched">launched</a> the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server in August, we focused on addressing the needs of companies operating their own BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, typically supporting a couple hundred BlackBerry smartphone users per server.<br /><br />Of course, companies of all sizes are adopting Google Apps, and their needs for supporting BlackBerry smartphones are as diverse as their businesses. So today we're making it easier for companies large and small to manage their BlackBerry smartphones and save money.<br /><br />With Google Apps Connector for BES version 1.5, large businesses can now support 500 BlackBerry devices per server, double the previous capacity. This lets them serve more users with fewer servers.<br /><br />Small businesses get more flexibility too. The Apps Connector now supports BlackBerry Professional Software, which is designed for up to 30 BlackBerry smartphones. We've also made it possible for a single BlackBerry Enterprise Server to serve users across multiple companies, enabling low-cost hosting services to be offered by hosting partners.<br /><br />Stay tuned for more announcements from partners offering hosting services for Google Apps customers with BlackBerry smartphones. In the meantime, we're going to continue to make it easier for you to manage mobile devices of all types with <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/mobile.html#utm_campaign=gbes15&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-gbes15&utm_medium=blog" id="nfxz" target="_blank" title="Google Apps">Google Apps</a>.<br /><br />Posted by Zhengping Zuo, Software Engineer and Darrell Kuhn, Site Reliability Engineer </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server now connects businesses of all sizes&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='5' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/google-apps-connector-for-blackberry.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/mobile' rel='tag'> mobile </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/new%20features' rel='tag'> new features </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/switch' rel='tag'> switch </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5412685179708182826' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2009/11/from-microsoft-exchange-2007-to-google.html' itemprop='url' title='From Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps: the Delta Hotels and Resorts story'> From Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps: the Delta Hotels and Resorts story </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, November 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Editor's note: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Please welcome today’s guest blogger, Michael Rodger, Director of Digital Innovation for Delta Hotels and Resorts. Mike oversees technology strategy, development and operations and is based in Toronto, Canada.</span><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=dfzmrc7w_43hp883xfr_b" style="width: 246px; height: 165px;" /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Delta boasts a diversified portfolio of 44 city center, airport and resort properties, and employs more than 7,000 people. The company is at the forefront of cloud computing, not only for email and collaboration, but also for building social networks that encourage employee collaboration.<br /><br />Mike will be telling more about Delta's transition at a </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">live webcast</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> this Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.</span><br /><br />At Delta Hotels and Resorts, we continually look for ways to enhance the relationships we have built with our guests, colleagues, and owners. As a people-centric organization, we have a vibrant colleague community which is empowered to deliver honest and genuine service on a daily basis. One of our technology goals is to provide innovative ways in which our employees can strengthen the Delta community.<br /><br />Our talented and hard-working colleagues are, undoubtedly, the difference-maker for our brand. Collectively, the spirit, creativity and passion for service that personify our staff enables Delta Hotels and Resorts to rank as one of Canada's top employers and maintain one of the lowest employee turnover rates in the hotel industry. Within our culture, we affectionately comment that our colleagues have "Delta in their DNA."<br /><br />To support our colleagues and optimize the way in which they work, our IT department develops ideas that improve collaboration and push the boundaries of technology. One recent implementation involved the wholesale replacement of a static and outdated Intranet platform with an engaging employee social networking site. The general idea was that our colleagues would embrace a user-generated content platform that truly permits information sharing across the hotel and the entire company. The results have been staggeringly successful! So much so that our IT team is now developing enhancements which are intended to take the platform to even greater heights.<br /><br />Delta Hotels and Resorts decision to embrace Google Apps is another example of our commitment to improving collaboration and breaking down conventional technology bottlenecks. The pain points of conventional, on-premise solutions include desktop software licensing, private wide area networks, and never-ending storage requirements.<br /><br />Conventional solutions are simply too expensive and too rigid to support progressive organizations such as Delta. From a cost perspective alone, the move to Google has cost us 75% less than a comparable on-premise messaging and calendaring solution.<br /><br />While the switch to Google has created new opportunities for colleagues, it has also enabled IT to remove bottlenecks on technology processes and resources. Extensible storage, message archiving and built-in disaster recovery are three basic examples of situations where Delta Hotels and Resorts has saved significant sums of money by choosing a cloud-based solution to replace an on-site headache.<br /><br />You can see more in our video, here:<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/NR1RHjZG6SU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/NR1RHjZG6SU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />To date, Delta Hotels and Resorts has provided Google Apps accounts to more than 4,000 colleagues across 44 hotels. One out of two staff has a Google Apps account and we're striving to improve that ratio. In order to reach staff who may not otherwise touch a computer on a day-to-day basis (e.g. doormen, housekeepers, banquet servers and others), we've deployed Apple iMacs across all employee cafeterias. In addition, we've developed programs which encourage our staff to connect from home computers, smartphones or any browser with an Internet connection.<br /><br />We are proud of our decision to embrace the cloud and implement Google Apps. I am delighted to share some of the insights we’ve gained from our move and supporting a multilingual workforce, during a live webcast, "<a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">From Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps: The Delta Hotels and Resorts Story</a>."<br /><br /><a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">Join us for this LIVE Event on</a>:<br /><br />Thursday, November 19, 2009<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br />(<span dir="ltr" id="n6pn">please note that you will be registering on the webinar host's site</span>)<br /><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=dfzmrc7w_16d2p5c7fd_b" /><br /><br /></div>Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a href="//www.google.com/apps/exchange#utm_campaign=exchange&utm_medium=blog&u">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/apps/notes#utm_campaign=lotus&utm_medium=blog&utm_">Lotus Notes/Domino</a>. </script> <noscript> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Editor's note: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Please welcome today’s guest blogger, Michael Rodger, Director of Digital Innovation for Delta Hotels and Resorts. Mike oversees technology strategy, development and operations and is based in Toronto, Canada.</span><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=dfzmrc7w_43hp883xfr_b" style="width: 246px; height: 165px;" /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Delta boasts a diversified portfolio of 44 city center, airport and resort properties, and employs more than 7,000 people. The company is at the forefront of cloud computing, not only for email and collaboration, but also for building social networks that encourage employee collaboration.<br /><br />Mike will be telling more about Delta's transition at a </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">live webcast</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> this Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.</span><br /><br />At Delta Hotels and Resorts, we continually look for ways to enhance the relationships we have built with our guests, colleagues, and owners. As a people-centric organization, we have a vibrant colleague community which is empowered to deliver honest and genuine service on a daily basis. One of our technology goals is to provide innovative ways in which our employees can strengthen the Delta community.<br /><br />Our talented and hard-working colleagues are, undoubtedly, the difference-maker for our brand. Collectively, the spirit, creativity and passion for service that personify our staff enables Delta Hotels and Resorts to rank as one of Canada's top employers and maintain one of the lowest employee turnover rates in the hotel industry. Within our culture, we affectionately comment that our colleagues have "Delta in their DNA."<br /><br />To support our colleagues and optimize the way in which they work, our IT department develops ideas that improve collaboration and push the boundaries of technology. One recent implementation involved the wholesale replacement of a static and outdated Intranet platform with an engaging employee social networking site. The general idea was that our colleagues would embrace a user-generated content platform that truly permits information sharing across the hotel and the entire company. The results have been staggeringly successful! So much so that our IT team is now developing enhancements which are intended to take the platform to even greater heights.<br /><br />Delta Hotels and Resorts decision to embrace Google Apps is another example of our commitment to improving collaboration and breaking down conventional technology bottlenecks. The pain points of conventional, on-premise solutions include desktop software licensing, private wide area networks, and never-ending storage requirements.<br /><br />Conventional solutions are simply too expensive and too rigid to support progressive organizations such as Delta. From a cost perspective alone, the move to Google has cost us 75% less than a comparable on-premise messaging and calendaring solution.<br /><br />While the switch to Google has created new opportunities for colleagues, it has also enabled IT to remove bottlenecks on technology processes and resources. Extensible storage, message archiving and built-in disaster recovery are three basic examples of situations where Delta Hotels and Resorts has saved significant sums of money by choosing a cloud-based solution to replace an on-site headache.<br /><br />You can see more in our video, here:<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/NR1RHjZG6SU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/NR1RHjZG6SU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />To date, Delta Hotels and Resorts has provided Google Apps accounts to more than 4,000 colleagues across 44 hotels. One out of two staff has a Google Apps account and we're striving to improve that ratio. In order to reach staff who may not otherwise touch a computer on a day-to-day basis (e.g. doormen, housekeepers, banquet servers and others), we've deployed Apple iMacs across all employee cafeterias. In addition, we've developed programs which encourage our staff to connect from home computers, smartphones or any browser with an Internet connection.<br /><br />We are proud of our decision to embrace the cloud and implement Google Apps. I am delighted to share some of the insights we’ve gained from our move and supporting a multilingual workforce, during a live webcast, "<a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">From Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps: The Delta Hotels and Resorts Story</a>."<br /><br /><a href="http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/webcast.aspx?docid=1171749">Join us for this LIVE Event on</a>:<br /><br />Thursday, November 19, 2009<br />2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT<br />(<span dir="ltr" id="n6pn">please note that you will be registering on the webinar host's site</span>)<br /><br />Posted by Serena Satyasai, the Google Apps team<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/File?id=dfzmrc7w_16d2p5c7fd_b" /><br /><br /></div>Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of <a 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