City of Pittsburgh Government

Project Name: Moves to Cloud Email, Increases Capability

Brief Project Description:

The Challenge  The Pittsburgh City Government currently utilizes Microsoft Exchange for their email service for 2,000-3,000 users. Unfortunately, the organization does not have the internal resources to manage the system.

The Solution   Pittsburgh City Government decided to switch to Google Apps, a cloud based solution where the service provider could manage the email system.

Projected Results

  • •Savings of $100,000 per year
  • •Administrators’ email duties cut be 60% - able to focus on other tasks
  • •Increase from 50MB-100MB to 25GB of storage per user

Anticipated Completion Date: December 2011