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• 10 Jul 08
  

  Akihiko Komada

  “Software as a service has allowed us a bit more freedom to open up our channels to them.”

  Phil Wainewright Rob Ramsay

• 03 Jul 08
  

  Bill H

  web3.0 saas news

  • A leading British construction company switched 1,800 users over to Google Apps on May 2nd, becoming the largest  live deployment in the UK so far for Google’s enterprise applications suite. In  a phone interview this morning, Rob Ramsay, director of IT at Taylor Woodrow, firmly refuted the allegations reported here  yesterday that Google applications aren’t fit for enterprise use.
  • Taylor Woodrow brought 200 users live with a pilot implementation of Google Apps  in November last year and more than a thousand users tried out the service prior  to the May go-live date. At that point, the company switched off its legacy  email system, forcing all users onto Google Apps. There had been no reliability  issues with the service, Ramsay said: “We haven’t had that sort of issue from  the business saying, ‘We have an outage here’.” And based on his prior  experience with the search appliance, Ramsay is confident that where changes and  upgrades are needed, they’ll be delivered as promised and on schedule — with the  added benefit that all users will get the upgrade automatically without any  local installation required.

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