LotusWorks makes the move to Google Apps
Irish-owned international provider of engineering to the manufacturing and energy sector LotusWorks has deployed Google Apps Premier Edition across its workforce.
The company decided to switch almost 100 users to the web-based communication and collaboration suite to enhance the reliability of its email system for its operations in Ireland and the US.
“Our legacy system was supported here in Ireland,” explained Gary Gilgan, IT manager, LotusWorks. “We decided to look at an alternative after we experienced a serious outage incident in Ireland which affected our business operations in the US.
“Our email system failed late one evening just as our business colleagues in the US were starting their day at work. Because it was ‘out of hours’ here in Ireland we couldn’t get the necessary IT support and a day’s work was lost in our US operations.”
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University of Minnesota has been working to introduce Google Apps
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) at the University of Minnesota has been working for some time to bring Google technology to the information technology (IT) department. The integration from Google will bring apps like email, word processing and presentations.
The Office announced a report about the highlight and features along with the arrival of Google Apps.
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The City of Los Angeles have decided to go Google
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a $7.2 million deal with IT contractor Computer Sciences Corp. to replace the city’s existing Novell GroupWise e-mail system with Google Apps, Google’s suite of online communication and productivity programs. Microsoft Office licenses will be reduced but not eliminated, as select city workers will continue to use Microsoft’s software.
The hotly contested deal calls for shifting about 30,000 city workers over to Google Apps in the next year.
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Rentokil to use Google’s Apps cloud, 3,5000 Users.
Rentokil Initial has become one of the largest user of Google Apps , rolling out the cloud-based office suite to 35,000 users globally by the end of 2010.
Rentokill plans to use Google to consolidate 40 email systems including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a single email system. The complex setup prevented staff from sending email across the group.
“The company has evolved with each business buying its own systems. We also acquired a number of companies. We had difficulty in sending email across the company,” said Bryan Kinsella, chief information officer.
Kinsella has now mandated the use of Google Apps across the group for email, collaboration and video conferencing.
Rentokil selected Google Apps after a 100-day pilot within its Ambius division, with 800 users in different countries, which demonstrated the system’s suitability for the group as a whole.
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Google Enterprise Blog- Google Apps New Features
- User policy management now in Google Apps Control Panel 07/20/2010
- New version of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® released 07/15/2010
- More admin controls for mobile device management in Google Apps 07/14/2010
- New version of Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes tool available for download 07/14/2010
- HTML5 features now in Safari 07/13/2010