I’ve always been a believe in “cloud computing.” As a not-for-profit, we are always looking for ways to save money, increase flexibility and meet the needs of staff. ACHIEVA started using cloud computing technology in 2003. We’re about to take the last step on this journey and move our file service to the cloud on Google Apps. But Google Apps is more that just putting your word processing documents and spreadsheets on the internet.
If you’d like to save money for your organization, it could mean this.
If you’d like increase collaboration between employees at different locations, it could mean this. Or this.
Want to improve communications between your employees?
Sure, these are idealized versions of what you can do with Google Apps, but what can it do for you in a practical terms?
So, as we go through this process, I hope to try to document here the highs, the lows, the good and the bad. Google Apps has the potential to transforms the way business operate. And while projects like this are always a challenge, we think it’s time to GoGoogle!!!
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We’ve “Gone Google” at The Arc of NJ. It’s been several months and we’re about 75% there. Just waiting for Google Drive to take over to finish the process. So far? Collaboration is great, work from off-site is fabulous, but change is hard. Biggest issue has been a new accounting software. Would be curious to hear if others have done it.
Change is difficult, that’s for sure. This is the last of a long line of software changes for us. Once people realize that what we’re doing after the change is better than what we were doing before we changed, things are great. And the overwhelming majority of folks seem to feel that way on most of our projects. But, the month or so that takes most people to realize that, can be challenging.
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