• Woolworths to roll out Google Apps to 26,000 staff members

  By Rebecca Merrett | 16 April, 2013 15:15

  Woolworths plans to roll out its Google Apps platform to 26,000 national and state office staff in the coming months, following its rollout of Gmail and its custom ‘Tap for Support’ app on iPads to 890 store managers in August last year.

• Retail chain sees value in Google Plus

  By Adam Bender | 05 April, 2013 14:05

  Retail chain Dick Smith will use Google Hangouts to share best practices among its stores and bring employees closer together, according to the retailer’s IT director, Linda Venables.

• Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users

  By Jon Gold | 10 December, 2012 20:02

  Gmail is back online after an outage late Monday morning that provoked a global response on social media.

• Google services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says

  By Jon Gold | 06 November, 2012 21:48

  All of Google's service offerings went offline in some parts of the world during an unusual half-hour outage that mainly affected users in Asia, according to content delivery network provider CloudFlare.

• Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked?

  By Ellen Messmer | 17 December, 2011 06:28

  The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees.

• How Consumerization of IT Led Kaplan to Google Apps

  By Kristin Burnham | 17 January, 2013 15:29

  At Kaplan, a genuine enthusiasm for technology comes from the top: Its CIO embraces the consumerization of IT and wants employees to be as excited about technology as he is. That culture led Kaplan to migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps and, mostly recently, to Google+.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 3

  By James Hutchinson | 30 March, 2011 07:00

  The shortfalls of Google Apps will likely resonate with the inordinate amount of Microsoft shops in the industry. Years of investment in SharePoint developers, Exchange support teams and business processes built around the fickle aspects of Microsoft Office and its ribbon interface cannot be discarded easily. That’s ultimately where Microsoft’s strength is likely to reside. No matter when its Office 365 bundle is released, and despite numerous attempts to forge links between legacy applications and Google Apps, the complexity of a migration for a large organisation would likely be a headache most CIOs are eager to avoid. At least, that can be said for Coca Cola Amatil CIO, Barry Simpson.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 2

  By James Hutchinson | 29 March, 2011 07:00

  Ultimately, some of the problems facing Microsoft’s Cloud strategy are those affecting many of its long-standing product suites. “Clearly Microsoft is trying to back-solve that problem to the legacy product set and clearly that’s problematic,” AAPT’s chief operating officer and effective CIO, David Yuile, says.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 1

  By James Hutchinson | 28 March, 2011 07:00

  IT behemoths, Microsoft and Google, have for years been embroiled in battles over who would control the move by different industries to the Cloud. Since at least 2007, Australian universities and education authorities eager to outsource their email have turned to either provider in lieu of limited competition from the market. For the next battle, however, the stakes are higher. Both Google and Microsoft are betting all of their chips on a sector that is likely to prove much more lucrative than any before it: Enterprise.

• Going Google

  By Darren Horrigan | 03 September, 2010 08:41

  It is 8pm midweek and three senior executives at Altium are working on a document they need first thing the next day — a presentation to staff about behavioural change. The program manager is editing text; the company president is asking questions about the program; and CIO, Alan Perkins, is answering his president’s questions.

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