A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

GSA and How to Reduce PLM Collaboration Cost?

GSA and How to Reduce PLM Collaboration Cost?
Oleg
Oleg
8 December, 2010 | 1 min for reading

Navigate your browser to the following link. GSA is moving to Google Apps. According to the Google blog, US GSA becomes a first US federal organization is moving their 17’000 employees to start using Google Apps for email and document collaboration. Here is the quote:

By making this switch, GSA will benefit in a number of ways. Modern email and collaboration tools will help make employees more efficient and effective. Google Apps will bring GSA a continual stream of new and innovative features, helping the agency keep pace with advances in technology in the years ahead. And taxpayers will benefit too—by reducing the burden of in-house maintenance and eliminating the need to replace hardware to host its email systems, GSA expects to lower costs by 50 percent over the next five years.

Why I think it is important? The collaboration cost is high. Time burden during the work on emails and other non-efficient collaboration tools is enormous. Google is making a point about how possible people can save some money out of collaboration. The same blog posts states move to Google will lower cost by 50%. The amount of inefficient emails in manufacturing company is skyrocketing. Thinking about a potential combination of Google Spreadsheets, Emails with some engineering and manufacturing stuff can make sense.

Just my thoughts…
Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
21 December, 2010

I found an interesting article in San-Francisco Gate about Dashboards- “Introducing Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Solutions: Business Intelligence Reinvented for the...

8 October, 2021

My attention was caught by Yoann Maingon’s article The Limits of All SaaS published in French in his blog –...

8 July, 2011

Apple isn’t cool.. Got your attention? Okay… Today is two years, since I switched my everyday life to MacBook. It...

16 June, 2015

Culture can eat strategy for breakfast and technology for lunch. When it comes to PLM, the implementation and organizational alignment...

12 July, 2009

Dear Friends, I’m looking back in the past 6 months. All discussions were absolutely cool…  I enjoyed each and everyone. I...

5 March, 2014

PLM and ERP have long “love and hate” relationships in manufacturing world. You can find lots of materials speaking about...

19 November, 2023

To continue sharing what I learned at AU2023 earlier this week, in this article I want to speak about Design...

24 April, 2018

I’m in Las Vegas at SuiteWorld 2018. Annual event organized by Oracle NetSuite – one of the largest cloud ERP...

9 June, 2017

Onalytica blog – IoT 2017: Top 100 Influencers, Brands and Publications brings few very interesting data points about growing community of...

Blogroll

To the top