City of LA is Saving Millions with CSC and Google Apps

 

The City of Los Angeles turned to cloud computing and Google Apps for Government to replace its legacy email system. The CSC-led effort has saved Los Angeles taxpayers more than two million dollars, and the City expects to save millions more in the future. Furthermore, the system is delivering powerful new capabilities to the city's employees and its constituents.
CSC's expertise in integrating cloud services, combined with Google Apps, Google's suite of Web-based productivity tools, is providing mission-critical communications and collaboration capabilities to more than 17,000 city employees. Google Apps includes email, calendar, documents and spreadsheets, Google Sites, instant messaging and video. These applications enable government organizations to do more with less and be more responsive to the needs of citizens.

In addition, CSC is providing its Trusted Cloud Computing services to include systems integration and end-user services, including solution architecture and design, integration with the city's identity management services, migration of live and archived email data, set up and training.

By combining CSC proven cloud computing integration and security expertise with Google's cloud computing applications, the City of Los Angeles is experiencing dramatically lower operational costs while increasing productivity and improving the end-user experience. Visit the site LA GEECS for historical data on this landmark project.
Today, thousands of city employees are benefiting from the Google Apps cloud computing solution -- a money-saving, functionally superior and user-friendly email and collaboration system. This migration is part of the contract awarded to CSC in November 2009 to replace the City of Los Angeles' current email system and other applications with Google Apps for online collaboration. The city is experiencing improved application availability and disaster recovery with the Google Apps solution.

From  http://www.csc.com/public_sector/offerings/76342/76369-city_of_la_google_and_csc