February 16, 2012

Google Apps for Government

Google Apps Specialist

Peter Kassab

Government challenges are changing

Information overload• Volume of information is increasing radically• Sort, file, and find is a broken paradigm

Collaboration is central• Work with distributed teams• Connect with agency partners

Enterprise Delivery Model is Broken• Security patching and management• Software updates and upgrades

Google is Committed to Meeting those Challenges....

FISMA•FIPS 199 Authority to Operate•Moderate Baseline (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability)• Issued by General Services Administration

Google Apps for Government•US Government only cloud•GSA Schedule 70 pricing via www.apps.gov•Pending GSA BPA

Leader in Public Sector Cloud ComputingGeneral Services Administration, NOAA, USAID, Dept of Energy labs, State of Colorado, New Mexico, City of Orlando, City of Los Angeles, Treasury, Multonomah County, Smithsonian, Tennessee Valley Authority, MACPAC, Wyoming, Advanced Distributed Learning (US Army), Naval War College, US Coast Guard Academy

Two Phases of the next Technology Revolution

Do the same things cheaper

    

Do the things you could never do before

    

Unique value for our Government Customers

Pure & Proven Cloud100% browser based

Rapid innovationFISMA Moderate Level Security 

    

Productive Anywhere Device agnostic

Viewing AND EditingInterchangeable experience

    

Designed for Teams   Real-time collaboration

Socially awareAcross department borders

    

Simple & Affordable   Simple licensing

Supported for everyoneLow TCO

    

Incremental Innovation

Google Apps in 2007

Google Apps in 2011

Integrate your existing architecture to start your journey

Secure Data Connector

Cloud Connect

Contextual Gadgets

Device Management

AppsScripts

How will Google Integrate with architectures?

Enterprise integration•Active Directory/LDAP•Exchange free/busy•Multi-factor authentication (HSPD-12, CAC, PIV, RSA)

•SSO integration

Client connectivity•MAPI-based Outlook•Blackberry integration•ActiveSync

Support and Reliability•99.9% SLA (no scheduled downtime)

•24/7/365 support

U.S. General Services Administration

Competitive RFP in 2010Completed Deployment June 2011

•17,500 users successful live on June 20, 2011

•Migration from LotusNotes led by Unisys/Tempus Nova

•"In addition to the cost saving benefits, the new email environment provides our agency with an easily accessible suite of services including email and collaboration tools that help GSA employees become a more mobile and more efficient workforce."

oMartha Johnson Administrator U.S. GSA 

U.S. Dept of Commerce NOAA

Competitive RFP in 2010Award in June 2011 for 25,000 Users

•25,000 users will migrate from Sun Messaging and Exchange led by Earth Resources Technology and Unisys

•This system will allow us to share information and strengthen collaborative productivity..."

•It's faster, it's easier, the technology is mature, and security can be addressed. I like the idea of reducing my commodity IT to a bill, and we'll be able to provide a better service at a reduced cost."

oJoe Klimavicz CIO of NOAA

Google Confidential & Proprietary

Few can benefit more than government

Thank You!Question?

Product Slides

GMail

Manage information better• 25GB quotas per user - never waste time managing quotas again

• Search your email -- find what you need quickly and easily• Use labels to filter and sort messages• Conversation threading to help manage your inbox

Anytime, anywhere access• Web access from any connection• Mobile access: Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile

• Outlook Connector: allow users • to keep their existing client

Talk

Real-time communications• Instant messaging with text• Simple voice and video communications• IMs archived and searchable with email• Integrated directly into the Inbox

Simple to deploy and manage• No client applications• Built right into the web-browser• Video available on any machine with a webcam

Groups

Simple configuration by users• Users can create and manage groups -- without help from IT

• Rich capabilities to customize groups• IT can control access to some features

Use groups everywhere• Groups serve as email distribution lists• Full searchable archive online for users• Also useful for defining access controls on documents, sites, and videos

Calendar

Rich functionality• Quickly add meetings and find available times and resources

• Sync to Blackberry, iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile

Share calendars for easier collaboration• Corporate calendars• Team calendars• Launch calendars• Even external calendars

Docs

Essential editing capabilities• Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities

• Unique features like forms for spreadsheets and remote viewing of presentations

Focused on collaboration• Real time co-authoring built into all of the applications• Control access to documents at user, group, and company levels

Sites

Simple creation of  rich sites by users• No knowledge of HTML required• No need for admin assistance• WYSIWYG editor• Use templates to define default Site and page types• Embed Docs, Calendars, Maps and other content Gadgets 

Lots of use cases• Personal sites• Team sites• Project sites• Department sites• Even public sites

Video

Easy to upload and share• YouTube-like interface for uploading• Share with individuals, groups, or the whole company• User can rate and comment on videos• Variable speed play-back to save time

Lots of use cases• Internal messages• Executive communications• Internal  training• Team motivation

Dramatically lower costs

Source: Microsoft Online Services Business Value White Paper (Microsoft, 2009)Source: Should Your Email Live In The Cloud?’ (Ted Schadler, Forrester, 2009)

•"If you look at the total industry spend, most of it is on activities where there’s no value added. Every dollar you spend on software from Microsoft, you spend $6 trying to get it to do anything."