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Agenda Who is ABSI ? Company Mission Cloud Computing What is it ? Premier Edition. What is it ? demo Mail & Calendar customer testimonial demo Docs & Sites and how to Quickstart with
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Agenda Who is ABSI ? Company Mission Cloud Computing What is it ? Premier Edition. What is it ? demo Mail & Calendar customer testimonial demo Docs & Sites and how to Quickstart with When is the right time?
What is cloud computing ? • Not so long ago : The best place • for money was the mattress • Today nobody will imagine keeping his money elsewhere than in a bank • Banks were the first storing and managing cloud for money • It is secure, fully accepted • We can get it from everywherethrough bank transfers, cash machines , checks …
What is ?
Google Apps: the cloud for your business Messaging MailPowerful email service with 25GB of storage and fast search TalkIntegrated instant messaging, video and voice chat CalendarPersonal, shared, and public calendars Collaboration DocsSimple real-time document collaboration from anywhere Sites Easily created and edited group pages Video Securely shared internal videos.
1 High costsOver $300/user/year 2 Labor requirements Maintenance, patches and upgrades 3 User limitations Less storage, poor search Legacy messaging systems have problems
Costs of On-Premise Email(Per User, Per Year) On-premise messaging is expensive Source: Should Your Email Live In The Cloud?’,Ted Schadler, Forrester, 2009
18 Month Plan Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Prepare network Upgrade OS Install server Add storage Move mailboxes Time and money spent on upgrades… Upgrades are slow and painful • New servers • OS upgrade • Purchase CALs • Storage • Drivers • Memory 2000 2003 2007 …that occur only in 4-6 year cycles.
User limitations Admin headaches Admins and users experience limitations • Limited storage: time wasted managing to mailbox quotas • Slow search: users folder and sort email due to poor search and email archives are less useful • Poor collaboration experience: limited real-time capabilities; no native sharing • Administrative burden: 22.8 hours per week for Exchange server 20071 • Downtime: 60-150 minutes planned and unscheduled per month2 • Opportunity cost: time spent maintaining email could be used for more strategic projects 1 “Google Apps vs. Microsoft Exchange Sever 2007 – Total Cost of Ownership Analysis.”The Radicati Group, November 2008 2””Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.
Why run email yourself? Google will take care of email so you can focus on projects that add value to your business
Less than 1/3 the cost of on-premise messaging systems • No hardware or software to maintain • More reliable and secure • Better user experience Messaging and collaboration are better in the cloud By 2012, 20% of enterprise e-mail seats will use a software as a service (SaaS) or "cloud" model for e-mail services (Gartner, May 2009) Source: “Email in the Cloud: Pros and Cons,” Matt Cain, Gartner, May 2009
Over $300 Google Apps is dramatically less expensive Under $90 Source: Should Your Email Live In The Cloud?’,Ted Schadler, Forrester, 2009
Better uptime than on-premise Less administrative time Superior reliability and less administration Downtime per month (in minutes)1 Administrative hours per week2 1 “Google Apps vs. Microsoft Exchange Sever 2007 – Total Cost of Ownership Analysis.”The Radicati Group, November 2008 2””Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2008-2009,” The Radicati Group, 2008.
Google Apps is more secure Quick facts 4th largest server manufacturer in the world Billions of $ flowing through our systems Millions of credit card numbers 100s of thousands of identical servers Hardened, custom Linux stack No unused ports or services available No third-party security issues Quick update of all systems Data distribution & multi-tenant model Data shared across servers (GFS) Data obfuscation on disk Data replication SAS 70 Type II certification
Google Apps customers Enterprises — Fortune 500 and Public Sector Small and Mid-Size Businesses Academic and Non–Profit Organizations Thousands of enterprises are using Google Apps Premier Edition today. Hundreds of new businesses every day
What is it? Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook is a plug-in that syncs Outlook with Google Apps just like Outlook syncs with Exchange
What is it? A plug-in that syncs Outlook with Google Apps just like Outlook natively syncs with Exchange. Full featured Fast mail sync with Google-native protocol Calendar Sync for all recurrence patterns Contacts Sync for all Outlook fields - even pictures. Global Address List for autocomplete and contacts lookup Look up of free/busy information for scheduling Works offline Simple to install May be deployed through SMS by Admins. Includes utility to migrate calendar, contact, and email data from previous Outlook installations
Outlook UI with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook installed
1. 2. Migration & Setup UI 3. Google Apps Sync allows users to copy data from previous Outlook installations, including archived folders (archive.pst) or Microsoft Exchange Profiles, into the Google Apps Sync folders. Google Apps Sync will then migrate that data to Google Apps.
Positioning Who would be interested? Organizations currently using Exchange and considering switching to Apps (on-premise or Hosted) Organizations considering using Exchange (on-premise or Hosted) What is is the value? Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook removes one of the last switching barriers by making it easy for users to transition to Google Apps by allowing them to use the familiar Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar.
Continuous innovation delivered without hassles Blackberry Enterprise Sever Connector Google Video for Business Gmail Video Chat Blackberry Contact Sync Sync for Microsoft Outlook Gmail Offline Google Sites 2008 2009 68 major feature releases 83 (as of sept)
Learn more about where your visitors • Where they come from • How they interact with your content • Google Apps administrators can harness the power of Google Analytics to • shed light on how their users are interacting with Google Docs and Google Sites. What is ?
Pay as you Grow ! • Support and reliability guarantees • 24/7 phone support • 99.9% uptime service level agreement (SLA) • Enterprise functionality • 25 GB of storage per user email inbox • Google Video for Business • Spam & Virus filtering / Message Security subset of • Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server • Sync for Microsoft Outlook • Platform • Integration APIs: authentication, user directory, mail gateway, migration, reporting • € 40/user/year • You can combine this functionality with for free ! Google Apps Premier Edition Details
1 Dramatic cost savings 2 Less administrative time 3 Better reliability and security 4 Best email experience for business 5 Best way to work with teams - What sets it apart.
When is the right time ? • Mail users are frustrated • Missing functionality • Licensing problems/costs with actual messaging solution • Outdated messaging infrastructure hardware/software • Too many downtime • Unhappy of services from your actual mail provider • Cloud computing financial benefits • - CAPEX OPEX : Switch from upfront investment to cash outlay over time !
Messaging MailPowerful email service with 25GB of storage and fast search Google Apps: the cloud for your business TalkIntegrated instant messaging, video and voice chat CalendarPersonal, shared, and public calendars Collaboration DocsSimple real-time document collaboration from anywhere Sites Easily created and edited group pages Video Securely shared internal videos.