IBM has signed up Panasonic as a customer for its LotusLive SAAS programs. More than 150,000 workers at the Japanese electronics maker will use IBM’s hosted e-mail, social networking Web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging and project management applications. The company unseated Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail server and a number of other collaboration solutions, including IBM’s [...]
Read more or comment >>MWV (coffee cups, school notebooks, more) ups productivity as 12,000 employees move to Google Apps.
Replaces numerous instances of Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange to provide a single messaging solution across 34 countries.
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For organisations wishing to implement cloud services, a compliance evaluation should be mandatory.
How should organisations approach a compliance evaluation?
First consider the legal and regulatory requirements of the sector.
Second consider the adherence to these regulations in terms of the following:
Geographical – where are Datacentres located. Pay particular attention to any back up Datacentres or third party [...]
Read more or comment >>First hand experience in migrating clients and our internal team from Microsoft Exchange and Thunderbird email clients to Google Apps web clients are extremely positive.
Limited to no training has been required and calls to desk not increased. Maybe this is leveraging peoples familiarity with Gmail.
Usability is excellent, particular standouts being:
Labels as a more functional approach [...]
Read more or comment >>Sometimes it says more when you look at what bad things have to say. Looking at CNN Money.com “the hidden costs of Google Apps” looks like a catchy headline, but with little substance to back it up.
Proper integration knocks out the “identity problem” as people merely log on to their company email. Single sign on [...]
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 [...]
