Jaguar Land Rover chose Google Apps

November 25, 2009 by Edwin Wang
Filed under: Deployment, Deployment Overseas 

Jaguar Land Rover went Google Apps for its IT systems, 15000 users will shift from Outlook/Exchange to Google Apps. The agreement was announced at Google’s Atmosphere conference in London.

The Informationweek.com reported this deal and had a combined comments including the City LA case on October, titled as “Why Jaguar Land Rover Chose Google Apps“.

Jaguar Land Rover was the perfect opportunity for Google. Ford had sold the automaker to Tata Motors for $2.3 billion in 2008. As Jaguar Land Rover began to plan how it would extract its IT systems from Ford’s U.K.-based data center—including Outlook email running onMicrosoft Exchange servers–in walked Google.

“It presented a one-off opportunity to rather than just copy and clone what email looked like under the Ford ownership, to do something different and innovative with a valid financial business case,” says Jeremy Vincent, CIO at Jaguar Ford, who announced the Google Apps implementation on Oct. 22.

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