Cloud Sherpas has migrated over 1,000,000 users to Google Apps from organization of all sizes in Manufacturing, Retail, Government, Real Estate, Healthcare, Education and other industry verticals.
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1. Case Studies
2. Case Study: Software Challenge Xactly had switched to Google
Apps from Microsoft Exchange, but users were not happy with the new
system. Google Apps was unfamiliar to many users, which
causedHeadquarters:San Jose, CA them to reject the new platform.
Xactly knew that Google Apps would be better for their business if
their employeesIndustry:Software could embrace the change.Legacy
mail system:Microsoft Exchange Solution Because Xactly knew their
employees needed guidedServices rendered:Data migration, training,
training to help them become accustomed to Google Apps,custom
application Cloud Sherpas designed customized interactive
trainingdevelopment modules that helped 170 users become
comfortable and effective within the Google Apps suite. Results
Following custom training, 80% of users who had resisted change
reported being comfortable and confident with Google Apps.
3. Case Study: Publishing Challenge National Geographic needed
a messaging platform that could be accessed anywhere their
reporters and photographers were on location. They also wanted to
cutHeadquarters: costs, as maintenance, upgrades and licensing for
LotusWashington, DC Notes were becoming
cumbersome.Industry:Publishing SolutionLegacy mail system: National
Geographic began a Google Apps pilot withLotus Notes Cloud Sherpas
and was so pleased that they migrated theServices rendered:
entirety of their user base to Google Apps.Data migration,
training,Postini configuration Results National Geographic reports
a significant cost savings over Lotus Notes, as well as a
substantial increase in ease-of- use for travelling employees.
4. Case Study: Hospital & Healthcare Challenge Decatur
General sought to replace outdated infrastructureHeadquarters: and
move to a more stable platform. They also wanted toDecatur, Alabama
change the way their employees used technology.Industry:Healthcare
SolutionLegacy mail system: Decatur General chose Google Apps for
increased mobility,Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino stability and cost.
The organization also felt that GoogleServices rendered: Apps could
help them become more tech-savvy.Data migration, Custom
Training,Mobile Integration Results Moving infrastructure and files
to the cloud allowed Decatur General to get rid of on-premise
servers and free up valuable space. "The migration to Google Apps
via Cloud Sherpas really addressed our needs, and for both the
users of the environment as well as the physical environment of the
hospital, the move has proved very convenient. - Rick Monroe,
Decatur General
5. Case Study: Hospital & Healthcare Challenge The
Schumacher Group needed an intelligent
peer-to-peerHeadquarters:Lafayette, LA messaging that would allow
employees to communicate more effectively. They needed a system
that was HIPAAIndustry:Hospital & Healthcare compliant and
could integrate with Salesforce.com data.Legacy mail system:
SolutionN/A Cloud Sherpas migrated 2,700 users to Google Apps
andServices rendered: developed an intelligent address book based
onData migration, training, customapplication development
relationships, in addition to an SSO solution and a branded portal,
which are all HIPAA-compliant. Cloud Sherpas also integrated this
solution with Salesforce.com. Results The Schumacher Group now
enjoys easy messaging and communication, leading to faster results
and a more collaborative environment. Data is now more integrated
and streamlined, leading minimal confusion and information
loss.
6. Case Study: Hospital & Healthcare Challenge Because
Carroll Hopsital had been using Novell Groupwise for quite some
time, the IT staff had deployed a number ofHeadquarters: bolt-on
products and patchwork solutions to keep the sytemWestminster, MD
running. However, the system grew increasingly unstableIndustry:
and Carroll looked for ways to increase stability.HealthcareLegacy
mail system: SolutionNovell GroupWise (v 7.0.3) Google Apps not
only gave Carroll Hospital a faster, moreServices rendered:
efficient messaging and collaboration platform, but alsoGoogle Apps
Deployment, Google provided an easy way for Carroll to archive
messages to beMessage Discovery 10 easily recalled for eDiscovery
requests. Results Google Apps has given Carroll the flexibility and
collaboration tools they need to succeed. They no longer spend
thousands of dollars-- and hours-- per year on maintenance and
upgrades. Carroll can now spend these resources on improving the
hospital.
7. Case Study: Retail Challenge Costs from maintenance,
operations and storage wereHeadquarters: mounting, and BI-LO
struggled at the corporate level toGreenville, SC maintain
communication with their retail stores, frequently-Industry:
travelling employees and even their own corporate teams.Retail,
Grocery SolutionLegacy mail system:Lotus Notes Google Apps allows
employees to communicate from anywhere. BI-LOs new intranet ensures
that employeesServices rendered:Mock deployment, Data migration,
are constantly updated, while streamlined and automatedChange
Management and spreadsheets remove a time-intensive manual
process.Training, Custom applicationdevelopment. Results BI-LO
reports a 60% savings over Lotus Notes, which amounts to hundreds
of thousands of dollars per year. Employees are more productive, as
they can work from the office, at home or on the go with ease.
8. Case Study: Retail Challenge Productivity was impaired by
the "slow and limited" legacy, open- source email system. Both
email and the legacy intranet were difficult, time-consuming and
expensive to maintain, and were not offering the flexibility Jasons
needed to communicate with travelling
employees.Headquarters:Beaumont, Texas SolutionIndustry: After
investigating options from Exchange to SharePoint, JasonsRetail,
Food Service decided to go with Google Apps due to low Total Cost
of Ownership (TCO), expandability, effortless upgrades, verified
security and provenLegacy mail system:Cyrus IMAP with various
reliability.POP3 clients, including Outlook &Thunderbird
Results Employees report satisfaction with Google Apps, as the
system hasLegacy intranet: drastically reduced burden on the IT
department and TCO. JasonsLifeRay portal employees can now
communicate in a more streamlined way, in andServices rendered: out
of the office.Mock deployment, Datamigration, Training,
Customapplication development Collaboration using Google Sites
saves a tremendous amount of time, improves the quality of the
pitches, and helps close more deals. That leads to increased
productivity for the sales force. - Kevin Verde, CIO, Jasons
Deli.
9. Case Study: Retail Challenge Design Within Reach needed a
messaging and collaboration platform that could help them to
effectively manage projects around the country. Design Within Reach
also wanted to retire several data centers, as
maintenanceHeadquarters: was costly.Stamford, CTIndustry:
SolutionRetail Google Apps was chosen as the solution for Design
Within(Furniture Design & Sales) Reach due to mobility and
collaboration abilities. The trueLegacy mail system: cloud solution
would allow Design Within Reach to retireMicrosoft Exchange their
bulky and expensive servers.Services rendered:Data migration,
fraining Results After migrating to Google Apps, Design Within
Reach retired their old servers, which were causing a financial
strain on the organization. Cloud Sherpas executed a rapid
deployment to ensure minimal downtime for the company, and users
report improved communication and collaboration abilities as well
as improved ease of use.
10. Case Study: Retail Challenge Lifeway used kiosks, meaning
that multiple employees used shared computers. This posed a
problem, as Lotus Notes isHeadquarters: designed for individual
usage on a single computer.Nashville, Tennessee Furthermore, the
legacy system was neither cost-effectiveIndustry: nor flexible, but
there was no application to migrate DominoRetail, Non-profit
applications to the cloud.Legacy mail system:Lotus Notes, Lotus
Domino SolutionServices rendered: Cloud Sherpas developed a process
to migrate DominoData migration, Post-Deployment applications onto
Google App Engine, which freed LifeWaySupport, Custom
ApplicationDesign from its expensive and inconvenient legacy
system. Results Google Apps has made kiosk-use a breeze, as Google
Apps is specifically designed for anywhere-usage (browser-based,
not desktop-based). Users report improved experience and LifeWay
reports significant cost savings year after year.
11. Case Study: Manufacturing Challenge Composites One had a
very decentralized GroupWise setup that required separate
maintenance and updates of individual server-systems. The company
wanted a system with improved functionality, mobility and cost
savings.Headquarters: SolutionChicago, Illinois Cloud Sherpas used
the Cloud Google Migrator from CTS toIndustry: complete the
migration to Google Apps. Moving to GoogleManufacturing - Chemicals
Apps also provided employees with much-improved mobileLegacy mail
system: access.Novell GroupWise, NovelleDirectory ResultsServices
rendered:Data migration, Training, Change Composites One saves year
after year, as Google Apps isManagement far less expense than the
legacy platform and does not require time-consuming upgrades and
frequent maintenance.
12. Case Study: Real Estate Challenge As the largest
independent real estate broker in Illinois and the oldest in the
country, Baird & Warner needed a messaging platform that could
keep up with traveling employees and would not cause a drain on the
organization.Headquarters: SolutionChicago, Illinois Baird &
Warner chose to Go Google due to its incredibleIndustry: mobility,
large mailboxes and ability to scale with theReal Estate
organization.Legacy mail system:Kerio Mail (Exchange Alt.)
ResultsServices rendered: Moving to Google Apps is saving Baird
& Warner upwards ofData migration, Training $200K every year.
Furthermore, employees find that communicating is much easier now
that all documents, calendars and email can be accessed from
virtually anywhere.
13. Case Study: Advertising Agency Challenge 22squared wanted
to improve collaboration across multiple disciplines, but decided
that this was not possible to do in Lotus Notes. The company wanted
to Go Google, but could not migrate custom Domino
applications.Headquarters: SolutionAtlanta, Georgia Cloud Sherpas
designed a Google App Engine solution toIndustry: replace the
Domino application, effectively migratingAdvertising Agency
approximately 400 users to Google Apps.Legacy mail system:Lotus
Notes, Lotus Domino Results Every minute we experienced delays and
complaints withServices rendered:Data migration, Training, Custom
Lotus Notes was a minute that could have been spent onApplication
Design better helping our clients. Now, not only are we on a system
thats a lot smoother and more intuitive, but our team is also very
pleased with the collaboration that Google Apps facilitates." -
Bill Seybolt, IT Director at 22squared
14. Case Study: Public University Challenge With approximately
60,000 students, faculty and staff, the University of Alabama
needed a better way to communicate, and they needed the new
solution to be implemented with minimal downtime .Headquarters:
SolutionTuscaloosa, AL Cloud Sherpas migrated 58,000 users and 1.5
terabytes of data in 40 hours to the Google cloud. Cloud
SherpasIndustry:Education also developed custom applications in
order to migrate additional data off of the legacy platform.Legacy
mail system:IMAP/Exchange ResultsServices rendered:Data migration,
Training, Custom With Google Apps, the University of Alabama
takesapplication development advantage of effortless collaboration,
large inboxes and an interface that is familiar to many of the
20,000 students. The University also enjoys the endless scalability
and mobility of Google Apps.
15. Case Study: Public University Challenge The school needed a
better way to communicate with thousands of students and faculty.
They also needed to provision each student, faculty and staff
member with a username and password combination. The school wanted
new students and employees to be able to self-provision a username
and password without having to visit the IT
desk.Headquarters:Montgomery, AL Solution Cloud Sherpas created a
self-provisioning sequence onIndustry:Education Google App Engine
that fulfilled ASUs requirements. ASU is able to scale this
application to accommodate forLegacy mail system:MS Exchange and
Webmail growing numbers in the future.Services rendered:Data
migration, Custom Resultsapplication development. Custom
application significantly reduced IT resources as well as students
trips to the help desk. ASU is so pleased with Google Apps and
Cloud Sherpas custom application development, that theyre looking
at ways to use Google in other systems such as Blackboard and
PeopleSoft.
16. Case Study: Application Development Challenge Simmons Foods
legacy system caused significant impairments to productivity.
Simmons sought to move away from Lotus Notes, but because Simmons
made heavy use of Lotus Domino for documentHeadquarters:
repositories and internal workflow applications, this was a
difficultSiloam Springs, AK task. At the time, no tool existed to
migrate Lotus DominoIndustry: applications to Google Apps.Wholesale
Food Service, Poultry SolutionLegacy mail system: Cloud Sherpas
performed a full deployment for more than 1,000Lotus Notes, Lotus
Domino employees. Cloud Sherpas developed a tool to migrate all
DominoServices rendered: applications to the cloud, and leveraged
Google App Script to buildGoogle Apps Deployment, new internal
workflow processes.Custom Application Development Results Now that
Simmons applications are hosted in the Google Apps cloud, employees
are noticing that functionality is much improved. Employees can now
access what they need at an instant from anywhere with an internet
connection.