Creative and account. Agency and client. Partner and peon. When it comes to our priorities and preferences, the differences are many. And epic. But there’s one thing on which we can all agree: Google Apps makes our working lives better. At a basic level, Google Apps has been an improvement because it works well across Macs and PCs. We were previously using Exchange, and it just wasn't friendly to Macs. Actually, it was downright rude. Google Apps plays nicely with everyone. We also saw a significant cost savings, which made our partners happy. Hosted Exchange cost us quite a lot for email. The cost-per-user of Hosted Exchange was expensive for our growing business, compared to Google’s cost-per-user of $50. Beyond what’s already built in to Google Apps, we love the add-ons in the Google Apps Marketplace. We could shell out major chunks of change for existing software to get the robust functions we need, or bog down our developers and build them in-house. Instead, we get them from Marketplace. In fact, that’s the first place we look when we need something new. Bonus: The transition was painless. The team at Umzuzu, our Google Enterprise Partner, was very knowledgeable about the change management we’d need for a successful deployment, technical aspects of mail routing like DNS changes, and all of the other technical aspects involved in our environment. They helped us manage the entire migration process from Hosted Exchange to Google Apps and continue to support us when we have questions, help us learn about new features, and are always sharing tips and tricks. It couldn’t have been easier. Huzzah!

Our YMCA was in need of a solution that would allow us to improve internal communications for our 2,200 employees. After reviewing our options we decided that Google Apps was a good fit for our needs. While working with Umzuzu our IT department learned a great deal about Google Apps, the process was efficient, interesting and enjoyable. They were easy to work with, offered solutions to our challenges, and were highly professional. Today we brought up Google Apps for the majority of our Full Time staff and it was a very smooth process. This has been the smoothest IT project, with the highest user adoption, and the least amount of issues in the history of our organization. Looking forward to working with Umzuzu on additional projects, we would certainly recommend their work.