Comments on: Google Apps defeats Lotus, GroupWise in Australia http://delimiter.com.au/2012/09/11/google-apps-defeats-lotus-groupwise-in-australia/ Just Australia. Just technology. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:34:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thomas http://delimiter.com.au/2012/09/11/google-apps-defeats-lotus-groupwise-in-australia/#comment-496218 Thomas Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:49:20 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136978#comment-496218 Dreaming is beautiful,

]]> By: Richard http://delimiter.com.au/2012/09/11/google-apps-defeats-lotus-groupwise-in-australia/#comment-495823 Richard Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:07:23 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136978#comment-495823 Hm, I don’t agree to the line “While we haven’t seen very many migrations off those [Lotus Notes and Groupwise] ]platforms and onto Google Apps.”
I have delivered Lotus Notes application migration tooling (Notes2Apps) to different Australian companies.
The majority of the migration to Google Apps may become from Exchange as Exchange is the number one. In relative terms, I think you see many movements to Google Apps from Lotus Notes. As Google Apps is the logical successor for Lotus Notes and Groupwise customers.

]]> By: Steve Hodgkinson http://delimiter.com.au/2012/09/11/google-apps-defeats-lotus-groupwise-in-australia/#comment-494354 Steve Hodgkinson Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:56:03 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136978#comment-494354 Very interesting … and a good example of the emerging dynamic of innovation being driven primarily from the global consumer/mass markets into the enterprise sector. Lotus Notes in theory could have made this transition with Lotus Live but just had no way of achieving the critical mass of adoption in the cloud to effectively support its enterprise proposition. Google has become an over-the-top play for the enterprise software vendors in the same way that Skype and Apple TV are over-the-top plays for the telecoms vendors and media companies.

Don’t underestimate Google Apps by positioning it for so called “edge workers” … who require only a lightweight solution … this lets corporate IT departments off the hook too easily. The best case study of hard-core use of Google Apps is Monash University. This is a $1B global organisation which uses Google Apps as its core collaboration/office automation platform … for all staff and students. The big innovation enabled by Google was the ability for the first time to get all staff and students using one integrated collaboration environment that is ubiquitously available via the Internet and smartphones. This was core to Monash’s business strategy, so the driver for choosing a cloud solution was to enable the achievement of business outcomes and innovation. It was not an IT thing, and not about cutting costs.

The other key insight of this story is that the use of cloud platform like Google enabled Monash to cut through organisational dynamics which had frustrated previous attempts to consolidate, standardise and rationalise the email and collaboration platforms. When cloud is the platform agile is the behaviour … really!

I have written a detailed (20 page) case study on the Monash/Google story:

http://ovum.com/research/adoption-of-google-apps-by-monash-university-a-case-study/

I’d be interested in any feedback that folks may have about their experiences of Google Apps at Monash University … I know some users prefer other solutions but as far as I can see the overall story is highly positive.

Also, FYI, NSW Trade & Investment has a deployment of around 3,500 staff in Google Apps … this is the first adoption by an inner-budget agency in a State government in Australia … and the experience seems to have been positive so far. David Kennedy is doing great work driving innovation in this department.

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