Rentokil Initial plans to rolling Google Apps to 35,000 users globally, consolidating 40 email systems including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a single email system.
“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.
The company aims to rollout Google Mail to 35,000 during 2010. To simplify the rollout, the company will continue to provide access to their legacy email, while providing Google Mail, via a web browser, for all new mail correspondence