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Capgemini

IT services and business consultancy

Now that our agents have shaped Google Apps to the specific requirements of the contact center environment, they have the tools they need to deliver the highest levels of customer care on behalf of our clients.

- Capgemini Customer Care & Intelligence Vice President Robbie Brillhart

Procter & Gamble

Leading global CPG company with 135,000 employees

Procter & Gamble Global Business Services (GBS) has enrolled as a charter enterprise customer of Google Apps, a successful consumer product suite now available to enterprises. P&G will work closely with Google in shaping enterprise characteristics and requirements for these popular tools.

- Laurie Heltsley, Director, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services

GE

Diversified industrial corporation

So much of business now relies on people being able to communicate and collaborate effectively. GE is interested in evaluating Google Apps for the easy access it provides to a suite of web applications, and the way these applications can help people work together. Given its consumer experience, Google has a natural advantage in understanding how people interact together over the web.

- Gregory Simpson, CTO, GE

Google

Organizer and access point for the world's information

10,000+ employees

We wanted to demonstrate that we believe so strongly in this product that we run our own company on it. Internal use of Google Apps should validate any requirements Google makes for business users. In addition, it will improve the product for customers of all sizes, since any features added by Google's engineers will benefit all users.

- Douglas Merrill, Former CIO and Vice President of Engineering, Google

Salesforce.com

Leading CRM software provider

With Google Apps, everybody is running the same copy because it all comes from a central server. That's a more secure and a more powerful way to run your business. Its not like that old software model where we have to wait years or even decades for the next version or the next upgrade or even the next product. The next version or next product at Google is sometimes available the next day or maybe even the next hour.

- Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com

Prudential Preferred Properties

Leading real estate firm in Chicago

One of the advantages that our company has seen from switching to Google Apps is just having a rock-solid email solution that our users love. Any time we can roll out any technology that is that simple for us to maintain and universally loved by our staff - that's a win in our books.

- Camden Daily, Director of Technology, Prudential Preferred Properties

Mondadori

Global publishing company

With Google Apps, our journalists can really work from everywhere in the world, they need only an Internet connection and good ideas.

- Marco Mazzei, Editor in Chief, Mondadori

Interush

Affiliate-based online advertising and marketing

As Interush expands globally, the need for effective communications between our affiliates became a priority. Google Apps provides multi-language support in both Japanese and Chinese where our primary base of affiliates do business. And Google Apps provides Interush affiliates with an opportunity to test and collaborate on a global scale, helping to ensure our leading edge in communications.

- Marty Matthews, CEO, Interush

Essilor

No.1 worldwide producer of ophthalmic optical products

Essilor pays close attention to trends in the IT marketplace: we created our intranet in 1995 and installed the Google Search Appliance in 2006 across our entire network. Today we clearly see two important trends: the rapid advance of collaboration, which places more and more importance on the office environment of every employee, and the consumerization of IT, the fusion of the technologies used at the office and in the home. On these two points, it is clear that Google Apps represents a significant advance and it is thus natural for Essilor to seriously investigate Google Apps.

- Didier Lambert, CIO, Essilor

L'Oreal

Leader in beauty products

L'Oreal R & D has decided to test Google Apps in order to optimize collaboration between its researchers.

- Jean-Paul Beck, International Director of Information Technology

Nexans

Global provider of cable and networking systems

Nexans, a world leader in the cable industry, is focused on intuitive usability, flexibility at all levels of administration, accessibility and collaboration throughout the world, securing our intellectual property, and maintaining cost control. Google Apps is a very interesting way to provide an innovative suite of products to our users to help achieve our objectives. I have personally used Gmail for the last 2 years, and I appreciate the quality of the service and the continuous solution improvements. By choosing to become an early adopter of Google Apps, Nexans will have the possibility to interact with the new solution and collaborate with Google to improve the solution to meet our future needs - a rare opportunity for such a product type.

- Yves Trezieres, Corporate VP Information Systems, Nexans

Impelsys, Inc.

Global content delivery and publishing company

As a global company that specializes in the delivery of electronic content and publishing services, rapid and efficient communication, within our company and with our customers is critical to us. Google Apps offers us the flexibility of communicating quickly and collaborating easily amongst our teams and with our customers -- regardless of location. In addition Google Apps offers Impelsys a total cost of ownership that is very compelling compared to the cost of owning the software licenses, hardware and the support people involved in maintaining that software and hardware. For us, Google Apps is the right solution at the right price.

- Nizar Jamal, Chief Operating Officer, Impelsys, Inc.

Takami

Restaurant and food services

Google Apps lets us centralize and consolidate information, simplifying our company's internal communication process and giving us better control over the business on a daily basis.


- Alejandra Cifuentes, Technology and Information Manager

Bravepoint
Lakeview
Prudential
Theikos
CDI Head Start

Google Apps lets us centralize and consolidate information, simplifying our company's internal communication process and giving us better control over the business on a daily basis.

The Huffington Post

Online news and opinion

The reaction of our staff to Google Apps was overwhelmingly positive. Plus, ongoing maintenance is nil.


- Paul Berry, Chief Technology Officer

Hub City Media

Software Developer

The drudgery of maintaining our own infrastructure is gone, which leaves us more time to generate new concepts and spend time more profitably.


- Steve Giovanetti, CTO, Hub City Media

San Francisco Consulting Group

Professional services

Our email services perform faster and are more available on the go...our collaborative work habits have definitely improved.


- David Ewing, President, San Francisco Consulting Group

Nimble Books

Publisher

Publishing is inherently a collaborative business, so we wanted a solution with collaboration baked in. When we saw Google Apps, we felt it would help us live up to our vision of being a nimble publishing company by shortening the time required for fundamental interactions like negotiating contracts and reporting on royalties.


- Fred Zimmerman, CEO, Nimble Books

Abraham & Harrison LLC

Online Relationship Marketing

Google Apps gives us a structured, integrated way to stay connected and collaborate.


- Chris Abraham, President and COO, Abraham & Harrison

Counterpoint Consulting
Indoff

Both new and established companies turn to Google Apps to curb costs

With Apps, we can grow our staff as needed and avoid a commensurate increase in IT overhead and a lot of advance planning.


- Markmann, Co-founder, Counterpoint Consulting

Indoff

Office Products Distributor

The migration to Google Apps was very simple and painless, and that's exactly what we were hoping for. I foresee the collaboration tools in Google Apps growing in importance, as our sales partners start to use Google Docs to collaborate with vendors, customers, and folks here at corporate.


- Shawn Faulkingham, Director of IT, Indoff

WBP Systems

Software Developer

Google Apps are great. For every minute I don't spend maintaining something that Google now does for me (and does it better then I could have), is a minute I can spend developing one of our products or working on custom software for a client.


- Ben Smith, Founder, WBP Systems

WaterFilters.NET LLC

Water treatment products distributor

Locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Missouri

A transition to a new business productivity software suite can seem overwhelming. However, Google Apps has very clear and thorough documentation that makes the process quite simple, and the benefits of the software will quickly make up for any time spent migrating. For our water filtration business, it has made an enormous difference in cost savings and productivity. We are reinvesting our savings in areas that are helping our water filtration business grow, and we are using the features of Google Apps to help us be more productive. And if we are the most efficiently-run water filter business, we can offer the best prices and features to our customers.

TeachStreet

Online teaching marketplace

Seattle, WA

We're platform agnostic (we have PCs, Macs and Linux machines), so Google Apps was the ideal solution for us. It was quick and easy to set up and we love how effortless it is to work at home, access email and calendars from phones, etc. Google Apps lets us move faster and make smarter, more collaborative decisions. The days of having to pay for more email storage (capped at ridiculously low storage levels for high costs), haggling with providers and sending documents back and forth are over. Give Google Apps a try!

CPApartner

Outsourced Accounting

Redmond and Seattle, WA

Google Apps is the best solution for sharing information with clients and team members around the globe, hands down. There is no better alternative! Google Apps replaced a technology-intensive Exchange implementation that was not nearly as flexible, responsive and feature-rich. Gmail, Talk, Calendar, Docs and Page Creator are all extremely beneficial to our diffuse organization and allow us to deploy to people instantly. We've seen dramatic workflow improvement, fewer IT hassles, cost savings, and less downtime. And the collaborative aspects are unbelievable!


- Rick Rutherford, President

Power of Two Games

Game developers

We're a starving startup. It's actually quite good: we have full control over our company, and we can decide what do do and how to run it. So when it came time to set up our office tools, we looked for the most inexpensive solution that met all our needs. That's when we found out about Google Apps for small business. Gmail is hands down the best email web interface I have ever used. Gmail was just the tip of the iceberg. Google Calendar totally rules. We gave a try to Google Docs and we were totally impressed. It's a web-based app, so we can edit the documents from any computer with web access; we can collaborate on the same document at the same time; exporting to a variety of formats comes in very handy when we need to send a document to somebody who is not using Google. It's encouraging to see these applications grow and get better week after week. We're extremely pleased with how Google Apps has been working for us so far. They fit our needs perfectly and the cost is right. We were able to set things up in about a morning and never have to fuss with it again. How good is that? We're happy to have these services available for free and being able to spend our time and money in what really matters: Creating a kick-ass game and getting it out the door.

MetalBuildingDepot.com

Building design

Seguin, TX

We replaced Outlook with Google Apps and have never looked back. Apps is always available, easy to administer and secure. The move immediately centralized, streamlined and simplified our entire messaging infrastructure. Now our business always has instant access to critical information with the advanced archiving and search functionality built into the service.


- David Garcia, CIO

Skinnycorp

Online community facilitator, parent company of Threadless

Chicago, IL

At Skinnycorp we use the Premier version and love it. The extra disk space on Gmail is great, and the cost per user is not that much. We were in a position to migrate our email to a new email server. Our workforce was becoming more geographically stratified and diverse and we needed a solution that allowed us to communicate and share info without being physically close. We also needed a platform that would fit into our heterogeneous technology world. Nobody has the same computer, OS or usage pattern, so we needed something flexible. We tried Exchange, but it required us to fit into it -- that worked for about two days. Right when this migration was occurring, my boss, Jake, mentioned that he wished we could just use Gmail. So we did. I signed up for Google Apps, set it up in a couple hours (if that), migrated our users, propagated our DNS records, and BAM, we had his wish. Our implementation was painless. Everyone was much happier. Google Apps did everything we required and allowed us to be as flexible as we needed. The calendar and Gmail are amazing. They work very well together and allow all of our users to connect and interact. Google Docs is very helpful with coordinating documents and for storing docs and spreadsheets that we may need on the road or just away from our desks. The ability to use any client, to chat with other jabber users, to share with other people really makes us feel safe and fancy. We love that we are able to interact with other apps and solutions without impacting our day-to-day workflow. I can send someone a doc i created in Google Docs and they can modify it and send it back without worry. Our managed exchange product was about $100 per user per year, so our total cost of ownership for our email has gone down. We are able to give our data to Google, who handles the hard stuff - while we handle our business. Just do it.


- Harper Reed, Life Changer

Certain Affinity, Inc.

Game developer

Austin, TX

The most substantial benefits of Google Apps are 1) a shared company calendar, 2) portable email, and 3) ease of use. It's hard to put this in more tangible terms, but these have had a direct impact on productivity and job satisfaction. The interface design is incredibly intuitive...the overall experience is awesome. For me, I no longer have to lug my laptop around everywhere I go. For the company, having a shared calendar has led to our being far more organized; this is especially important when we're coordinating business meetings and contract negotiations.


- Max Hoberman, President

Integral Life

Media and events company

Louisville, CO

Once people get used to the search and sort features of Gmail, it's so easy for them to pull-up exactly what they're looking for -- we've saved hours and hours of time that we used to spend finding old messages. We've also probably saved lots of money because of the productivity increases we get using Google Talk to quickly communicate. The price, the up-time, the productivity increases and the reliability...I don't think I need to say why we appreciate Google Apps.


- Robert MacNaughton, IT Manager

CORE10 Architecture

Architecture firm

St. Louis, MO

We appreciate most the accessibility from anywhere and the simplicity. I'm more connected outside the office and better able to keep in touch with clients.


- Michael Byrd, AIA LEED AP

Hill House Products

Wholesale electronics distributor

San Clemente, CA

Since we switched to Apps, I haven't had to stay late once fixing someone's email or reloading a PC because of a virus. Google Apps has freed up my time as an IT professional to concentrate on the company website and hardware concerns. In addition, the owners travel often and used to call to have employees turn on their computers to check their email -- Gmail took care of it with an easier, more stable interface, for free. With Google hosting their email, they take a laptop with them and check their email from any location. Also, Gmail's filter catches almost all of the spam, and has made the threat of loosing emails and contact info disappear. It costs approximately $300 to send a salesperson out to a customer; if they do not have to return home between sales calls to check email, this is cut by at least $50 in time and gas costs, if not more. If we were running an Exchange server it would cost at least $500 to have the network admin set up the program, and at least $120 per hour each month to maintain it -- not to mention the time and money spent on backing up the data and taking the backup off-site.


- Keenan Hill, Technical Specialist

SF Bay Pediatrics

Medical group in San Francisco

When it comes to our email systems, our doctors don't have the time or the budgets to deal with managing technology or defending against spam. With Google Apps we don't have to worry about downloading the latest spam filters or navigating unwieldy servers - this is where we let Google do what it does best, so we can do what we do best - help our patients.

- Andrew Johnson, Chief Information Officer, SF Bay Pediatrics

Sea Change Investment Fund

Environmentally responsible venture fund

The response of our users to the incorporation of Google Apps has been great. People are excited to do in the work context what they know and love in the personal context. It's very seamless for folks to switch over, in fact, there is no transition.

- Jason Winship, Managing Principal, Sea Change Investment Fund

Eli Research

Research provider in health care, legal and financial services industries

We're a flexible, fast growing company with users scattered all over the world in offices and working from home. Who is better equipped than Google to ensure uptime and universal availability from any browser, mail client, or even hand-held devices? Let's face it, beyond simply getting messages, email is all about being able to find the things you already have as they relate to ideas you are having now. For messaging to have a foundation based on search and tagging (labels) is an obvious evolution. Retrieval of messages on any topic becomes an easy, instant task even if you only have the smallest grain of an idea of what you are looking for. In traditional email, a good part of a user's day may be spent searching for background to support a current topic. The search-and-label based tagging scheme in Gmail is far superior to simple folders, since items can belong to as many labels as they apply to.

Why move our internal email infrastructure to Gmail? Because I get all the upside of a huge scale upgrade, and I don't need to revise my budget or put extra equipment in my server rooms or add internal support to ensure uptime, or even teach users to use it. It's a natural.

- Mike Campbell, Director of Information Technology, Eli Research, Inc.

Neev Information Technologies

Technology consultancy

A year ago I was the primary system administrator for our company. We had been hit by DoS attacks twice when our server simply became unusable. There were times when the mail system would be down and we would not notice for a few hours, thinking its a quiet day :-) . Imagine if a small bootstrapped company misses even one email from a prospect who is looking to do business with them? What if your back up script fails and you loose most of your email archives? Worse, what if a hacker takes over your server, and uses it for spam? I have lived with these worries for two years before finding peace of mind. Not only does [Google Apps] save you time and stress, it allows you to concentrate on things you should be worrying about.


- Saurabh Chandra, CEO, Neev Information Technologies, Bangalore, India

Drew George & Partners, Inc.

Eco-friendly building consulting firm in San Diego

As a small and growing firm, we were looking for an easily scalable and affordable email and calendaring platform with minimal maintenance. Google Apps provides our employees with plenty of storage space, accessibility from different devices without synchronization, spam prevention and shared calendars. In addition, we are excited by all the new collaboration opportunities that Google Apps offers.

- Drew George, CEO, Drew George & Partners, Inc.

RedOctane

Video game and accessories publisher, creators of Guitar Hero for the PlayStation2

Until recently, we had been using a free email solution installed on one of our own servers. We decided to switch, and the transition went smoothly thanks to instructions that were easy to follow. Google's service offers more features and more space than other alternatives. Our old mailbox size was 10 mb, and we would constantly get "mailbox full" errors and bounced messages. No longer! Also, Google's webmail interface is the best one out there, which helps us access our email from anywhere, whether or not we're at our own computers.

- Mike Doan, RedOctane

Travelstart Nordic AB

Travel agency in Sweden

Google Apps gives our end-users fast, ubiquitous access to email and calendar from a simple yet powerful interface. The search features in Gmail are especially popular and more robust than other mail clients. Google Apps Premier Edition will save us 50% compared to the costs of hosting email ourselves and even more than using an outsourced Microsoft Exchange solution. Account management is easy and we don't have to worry about mailbox sizes or running out of disk.

- Erik Bosrup, Travelstart Nordic AB

Rock Kitchen Harris

Small advertising, design, PR and web design agency, in the United Kingdom

We used to have an old Windows 2000 box stashed under a desk, running our mail server. It worked fine for many years, but during the hot weather a few weeks ago, it just blew up. Luckily, we were able to get up and running with Google's solution quickly and with minimal disruption to our business. This service brings together a complete set of communication tools (email, IM, calendar), and we especially like how it lets each person choose the mail interface they're most comfortable with. Some people prefer a desktop client, whilst others use the webmail interface so they can find old messages really easily.

- Paul Sculthorpe, Senior Web Developer, Rock Kitchen Harris

Allen Labs

Small business providing consulting services to non-profits

We used to have our own server — around $2,000 for the hardware and $200 per month for rackspace and bandwidth. Plus my time to keep it up and running, which is limitless and completely free of charge (sort of) since it's my own business. Oh, how I love to sleep through the night without having the pager go off at 3am now! The best part is not having to hassle with all the regular maintenance of a mail server...patches, spam, backups, egads! I've recommended Google Apps to all of the non-profits that I donate my time to.

- Jules Allen, Founder, Allen Labs

FantasticGreece.com

Online travel agency in Greece

We are running an online travel agency and it is really crucial for us to have 100% e-mail availability. The loss or the delay of any e-mail might cause serious troubles to us and our customers. Using Gmail servers as our mail servers make us feel a lot safer. The spam filter is also doing a great job! Google's service is easy to set up and the basic functions that an ecommerce business uses, such as email, are easy to implement. I have already recommended Google Apps to my friends involved in other businesses.

- Nikos Goulis, Managing Director, FantasticGreece.com

2night Entertainment

Worldwide nightlife guide and social network, based in Guatemala

We had a privately managed mail server, which took time to update, maintain spam filters, patch antivirus software, and all the rest. Our webmail was really bad, and the Gmail interface is a great improvement. I like that Gmail only displays text ads, and that they're related to the topic of our emails. They're actually useful, rather than a distraction. Getting started with this service was very easy, by the way, just like the other Google products that I use. I have already recommended Google Apps to many other friends, and I'm planning to use it for the other domains that I manage.

- Alejandro Pivaral, 2night Entertainment

VAI Ingdesi

Industry Solutions Company

Google's service is way better than our old one! It's definitely had a positive impact on our business and I would recommend it to other small-to-medium size businesses.

- Juan Sagasti, VAI Ingdesi

ebusinessware.com

Financial services consulting

Google Apps was very easy to set up. Being able to change the logos and colors was important for branding. It's had a positive impact on our business as it has helped us focus our attention more on the business instead of running mail servers with anti-virus and anti-spam software.

- Rajesh Abhyankar, Manager, ebusinessware.com

Metropolitan Group

Social marketing firm

Google Apps for us means email reliability, great spam filtering and access to innovative collaboration tools that will surely enhance the pace at which we can do business. By keeping pace with Google we know we're keeping pace with leading-edge technologies that will help our organization communicate better.

- Jason Rambo, Operations Manager, Metropolitan Group

Bio-Botanica

Producer of botanical extract

The decision to move our in-house e-mail to Google Apps was based on cost savings and improved efficiencies including freeing up internal resources. It alleviates the need for our IT staff to install patches and perform security and virus updates. Users will now have increased storage limits for e-mails as well as being able to create and share corporate calendars. Our sales force will have worldwide access to their e-mail with the same features as the in-house program.

- Michael Tagner, IT Manager, Bio-Botanica

Northwestern University

Private university in Chicago, Illinois with 14,000 students

Our students approached us about a year ago, saying that we needed to improve our email and collaboration services. We actually had our student government tell us, 'we want you to implement Google Apps.' Higher education institutions have the opportunity right now to focus on their core competencies of education and of supporting true education. If other peripheral services -- communication services -- are being done by someone else in a best-of-breed fashion, why not take advantage?

- Wendy Woodward, Director of Technology Support Services, Northwestern University

Abilene Christian University

Private Christian university in Texas

Almost every technology decision we make involves tradeoffs, weighing the operational costs against the benefits gained. With Google Apps, the balance sheet is very lopsided. The benefits are tremendous and costs are few.

- James Langford, Director of Web Integration and Programming

Arizona State University

University in Tempe, Arizona with 65,000 students

Google Apps is helping Arizona State University become a highly flexible university that can provide extraordinary technology experiences for its students. Google's integration of webmail, instant messaging and calendaring is second to none.

- Kari Barlow, Assistant Vice President, University Technology Office, Arizona State University

Besant Hill School of Happy Valley

Small, private boarding school in rural California

Collaborative projects really make for an excellent educational experience, not only because students bounce ideas off each other and improve each other's writing skills, but because the process itself teaches them how to work well with others—a valuable skill for anyone.

Columbia Secondary School

Public school partnered with the NYC Department of Education and Columbia University

Our technology and information systems are a huge selling point for parents who may otherwise have doubts about sending their kids to a brand new school. As a startup operation, drawing a talented and diverse student population has required that we create an impressive online edifice that preceded our physical existence as a school. From summer reading discussion forums to parent and student listserves and online interest groups, the strong, flexible, and user-friendly solution provided by Google Apps provided the glue to hold together our online community.

- Andrew Stillman, Assistant Principal and Associate Director of Technology and Information Systems

Faculty of Management Studies

Management Training school in New Delhi, India

Students are more than satisfied using the new system, and appreciate the increased email storage space. The school's management is happy with Google Apps, too, especially because it allows us to maintain the FMS brand identity by offering email on our own domain.

- Faculty of Management Studies Secretary of Media Relations

Lakehead University

University located in Ontario, Canada

Google is already a step ahead of its competition in converting email from being a conventional communication tool to being a robust, collaborative discussion tool. Other companies use three or more features to do what is accomplished by the one email application that is Google Apps. In addition, Google's track record is consonant with Lakehead's philosophy of innovative thinking and a nimble approach to adopt technology to enhance community experience.

- Shahzad Jafri, CIO, Lakehead University

Linköping University

Inter-disciplinary university in Sweden

The addition of Google Apps has meant much more to the university than just an email platform replacement. The Gmail capabilities alone would see the project deemed a success, but with the additional products, including Google Docs and Calendar, we have been able to incorporate it as a critical part of our student IT ecosystem.... In adopting Google’s Apps, we are not only aligning ourselves with a global leader in IT, we are also providing students with what they want.

- Joakim Nejdeby, CIO

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Leading international business school in Arizona

Google Apps provides larger storage, better internationalization, better spam filtering, and a better web interface than our previous solution. It has improved communications and email user retention.

- Johan Reinalda, Thunderbird School of Global Management

San Jose City College

Community college in the San Francisco Bay Area

10,000 students

We considered many options and choose Google Apps because of the quality of the products, the ease of implementation, and frankly because so many of our students already know and trust Google's search and communication tools. Google Apps has brought, and is continuing to bring, our whole campus community closer together. It's easier than ever for students and faculty to communicate with each other, and this aspect has a positive impact both in the classroom and around campus.

- Michael John Renzi, Director of Finance and Administration, San Jose City College

Cambria-Rowe Business College

Career training institute in Pennsylvania

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