City of LA moves to the Cloud
The City of Los Angeles recently selected Google Apps to replace its current email system for all 34,000 city employees. Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin and Kevin Crawford, Assistant General Manager of LA's Information Technology Agency, discuss the reasons behind the city's decision.
Google identifies the benefits as:
- Improved collaboration. Collaborative tools such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and simultaneous review and editing of documents by multiple people, employees will allow emplopees to work more efficiently and collaboratively.
- Easier remote access. Easier access to information from any computer with an internet connection, as well as from their mobile phones.
- Expanded storage. Employees will have 25x the email storage they have today, saving them from having to make difficult decisions about which emails to keep or delete.
The City of Los Angeles expects to save $5.5 million over five years and achieve a return on investment of up to $20 million.
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