The document promotes switching to Google Apps for business by highlighting key areas of efficiency, productivity, trust, and innovation. It estimates that Cameron Venture Partners could save 280 hours and $46,179 per year by lowering costs, improving collaboration, ensuring security and uptime, and gaining access to continuous updates and new features of Google Apps.
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Cameron gone google
1. Cameron Venture Partners
goes Google.
Customized Google Apps presentation for Cameron Venture Partners.
google.com/gonegoogle
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2. Google Apps can make your company more profitable,
productive, and innovative. Here are a few areas
Cameron Venture Partners can benefit from going Google:
Efficiency
Productivity
Trust
Innovation
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3. Efficiency: Lower total cost of ownership
By switching to
Google Apps your
company of 5
Google Apps only costs
employees could save $50 per user per year.
That's less than your
$31,254
a year
company will spend on
morning coffee.
Estimated savings over Microsoft® Exchange 2007, assuming average IT manager hourly wage of $70 an hour.
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google Estimates are based on sample customers of a similar size, and may not reflect your actual experience with Google Apps or Microsoft® Exchange 2007. 3
4. Efficiency: Access anytime, anywhere
Access your files from any place
Employees at
with internet. Plus, Macs, PCs
Cameron Venture Partners and Linux can all run Google
Apps. Blackberry® devices,
will be smartphones, Outlook® and
Entourage® accounts are
2.8 times compatible, too.
more productive
while mobile
The average employee in the company became 2.8x more effective while working mobile within 6 months after adopting Google Apps,
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google (Telegraph Media Group Internal Study, 2009). 4
5. Efficiency: Bigger inboxes, less clutter
Cameron Venture Partners
could add
Enough for
122GB
of email storage space
307,298 emails
Gmail inboxes are 50 times the industry standard
So employees will spend less time deleting emails.
Plus, that new space will be organized into
conversation threads, reducing the number
of inbox lines by 47%.
Calculations based on an average email size of 418KB (Osterman Research Study, 2010). The number of lines in employees’ inboxes decreased by 47%,
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google or 510,000 emails per day across the organization (Motorola Mobile Devices Business internal stat, 2009). 5
6. Productivity: Less spam, more time
Cameron Venture Partners could put the
140 hours
employees normally spend dealing
with spam to better use.
Gmail saves time by filtering out spam and protecting you from viruses.
Hope you won't miss those inspirational chain letters.
Assumptions: 5 seconds for an employee to click open and email, ID it as spam, and delete it.
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google An average user receives 77 spam emails each day which are blocked by Google Postini Services (Google internal stat, 2009) 6
7. Productivity: No more version control
At Cameron Venture Partners, if
10 team members
working on a project each make
5 revisions
there would be
50 versions
of the same document floating around.
Yikes.
Technology is supposed to make things easier, but too
many attachments get complicated.
With Google Apps, there's a single online copy of each document, so
everyone knows that they're working on the latest version
of a doc, spreadsheet or presentation.
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8. Productivity: Integrated email, IM, and video chat
Employees at Cameron Venture Partners
could communicate
36% more
with integrated email, IM, voice
and video chat.
Along with saving money on the company phone bill, Gmail's built in IM, voice, and
video chat make collaboration and communication more efficient.
Employee communication increased by 36% within 6 months after adopting Google Apps.
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9. Trust: Automatic updates
Save 5 hours
per year with automatic
updates and keep your
data safe and sound.
With Google Apps, updates and security patches are
automatically installed. So instead of installing patches,
changing passwords and fending off viruses, your IT department
can contribute to the company in more productive ways.
Assumption: 5 minutes for each user to update and restart their machine after each Patch Tuesday (12 times per year).
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google Microsoft® had 71 “critical” and “important” security alerts in 2009 alone. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx 9
10. Trust: 99.9% uptime reliability
With
uptime Cameron Venture Partners will get
135 hours
of additional productivity
each year.
When it comes to servers, downtime is a downer. But with Google Apps,
Cameron Venture Partners will experience more reliable access to files and
emails with no planned downtime. Other server systems have at least 36
to 90 minutes of planned downtime a month.
Companies with on-premises email solutions averaged from 30 to 60 minutes of unscheduled downtime and an additional 36 to 90 minutes of
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google planned downtime per month, (The Radicati Group study, 2008). http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-we-learned-from-1-million.html 10
11. Trust: Data security
Cameron Venture Partners
could avoid losing
4GB
of data from lost
or stolen laptops.
And Cameron Venture Partners
will spend
$14,173
less recovering
from data loss.
Losing things is never fun.
But with Google Apps all your
data is stored online. That
means you'll need 0 thumb
drives and lose 0 gigs of data
if anything happens to
a company laptop.
Assumptions: 60% of employees have laptops; 10 GB of data stored per laptop; average laptop cost of $2000.
According to the FBI, 1 out of every 10 laptops are stolen in the first year of purchase, (FBI, 2005).
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google A typical lost or stolen laptop costs employees $49,246 due to value of missing intellectual property or other sensitive data. (Ponemon Institute, 2008.)
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12. Trust: Data Recovery
Cameron Venture Partners could save
$750
in data recovery services.
Cameron Venture Partners may spend as much as $750 in data recovery services to protect
from a natural disaster or hardware meltdown. But by going Google you'd spend $0 and wait
0 weeks to recover files.
Assumptions: Average data recovery cost of $150 per user per year. Calculations based on companies of a similar size.
Cameron Venture Partners goes Google http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/03/disaster-recovery-by-google.html 12
13. Innovation: Continuous updates & new features
Plus, nobody likes waiting for new stuff.
That's why Google has automatic updates. You'll instantely get the newest features instead of waiting years
for the next version to be released. In the past year, Google Apps has released over a hundred new features
and innovations without any patches of installations to worry about. Here are a few new ones:
Google Drawings Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise server
Upload any type of file Custom template creation in Google Docs
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exhange Google Secure Data Connector
Translate documents in Google Docs Gmail drag & drop attachments
Message Log Search in Message Security Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook
Google Docs shared folders Google Groups in Apps
Translate in Google Sites Export all documents
Google Apps Script Google Sites templates
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14. So here's the bottom line if
Cameron Venture Partners switches to Google Apps.
Time saved: 280 hours/yr.
Money saved: $46,179/yr.
Time to go Google
Learn more at google.com/gonegoogle
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