Google Apps is designed to transform the way organizations work, communicate and collaborate. We have extensive experience deploying Google Apps into a wide range of sectors – from small to medium businesses, to large tertiary institutions or corporates. Our goal is for you to get the best long term value out of your Google Apps roll-out.
Why Google Apps for enterprises?
- A better way to work, communicate and collaborate
- Improve user satisfaction
- Cut your costs quickly
- Simplify your infrastructure
- Focus your team on core business systems
- Deploy incrementally
Why are large enterprises adopting Google Apps?
Large organizations are striving to focus their people and resources on innovation in their core business, while reducing cost in commodity applications. Google Apps mail, docs, calendar and collaboration functions are available from the cloud which means staff can innovate, communicate and collaborate from anywhere - at significantly reduced cost . IT staff are free to focus on enhancing the key applications that underpin their core business.
Our Google Apps implementation processes combined with products such as Access Manager will help you deliver Google Apps for your business faster and with less risk.
What we do for enterprises
We can assist you through the full lifecycle of your Google Apps implementation:
- Business Case and Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
- Solution Architecture
- Pilot and Project Planning
- Content Migration and Deployment
- Decommissioning of legacy infrastructure
- On-going support
For more information on our methodologies and approaches visit our services section.
How we engage
Knowledge transfer is a key objective for all of our engagements - we strive for full transparency and rely on Google Apps tools such as Google Docs and Sites to give all stakeholders appropriate visibility.
Our approach is not to take project responsibility for large-scale implementations or systems integration, but to work alongside your staff to add our specialist knowledge, skills and tools.
Our approach enables you to use resources who are already familiar with your business, and allows us to maintain focus on providing you with highly specialist resources that add value. Our experience has been that project resources covering areas such as project management, business analysis, or organizational change, are usually already available in-house or are readily obtainable.
In the initial phases of the project we can provide advice regarding the likely project resource requirements.
Why Google Apps?
- Cut unnecessary IT expenses
- Use your own domain name
- Email, calendar, contact & more
- Easy to manage on your own
- Synchronizes with your phone
- Built-in anti-virus
- Works anywhere in the world
Why small business are adopting Google Apps
Google Apps gives small businesses highly cost effective access to the same office tools like email, calendar and documents that are used by big corporates - for just USD$50 a user per year. Best of all these can be turned on in real time, and are hosted and managed for you by Google. There is nothing to install, no technicians needed to maintain it, and you only pay for accounts you use.
Once on Google Apps, you can access your email, schedule and contacts from any Web browser, through Outlook, or from your mobile phone. Changes are automatically synchronized so you're always up-to-date, and a lost phone or laptop doesn't stop your business.
When you're ready, enable additional features to set up electronic workspaces to collaborate with your customers or business partners, or to manage and share your documents.
Business Kickstart - what we do for small businesses
Business Kickstart is our programme for getting a small/medium business on to Google Apps in just a few days.
How about next weekend? To minimize disruption to your business, we can migrate your data over a weekend so staff can come in Monday morning and have their email history, contacts and calendars already set up.
"Trial run" allows you to run Google Apps and your existing email system in parallel so you can be certain everything is working well before switching over (services fees apply).
On-site training to get your team moving quickly: a "jumpstart" session prior to the migration will help set expectations, and "day one" on-site support is available to address any questions once your Google Apps is "live". Follow-up training and refresher sessions are also available.
Business Kickstart - what's included
- A quick assessment of your existing business solutions to decide how best to deploy Google Apps and identify any specific areas where Google Apps could quickly add value to your business.
- Setup of your Google Apps domain, including configuration of email accounts, groups, and common aliases (info@, sales@ type addresses).
- Setup of your Gmail with your existing domain name, allowing Gmail to start receiving and processing your mail.
- "Trial mode" configuration that allows you to try using Gmail in parallel with your existing systems for a time, before the switch-over decision is reached (service fees apply).
- Content migration including emails, contacts and calendars, so your team can keep running.
- Training to ensure that everyone is comfortable with basic Gmail/calendar/contacts functions and staff know how and where to learn more.
Why Google Apps?
- Google Apps Edu Edition: free!
- No new servers
- Use your own domain name
- Cut student & staff mail cost
- Solve collaboration challenges
- Integrate with your LMS and SMS
- 24/7 electronic support from Google
Why is the education sector adopting Google Apps?
The education sector has been particularly enthusiastic about adoption of Google Apps, and fully leveraging its collaboration and communication strengths in order to leapfrog capabilities for students. Google is committed to the education sector and has made Google Apps available for free to primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.
The Hapara team has extensive experience in this sector and has optimized our services and products to meet your needs.
Tertiary Institutions
Tertiary institutions have more complex needs from their Google Apps deployment - both functionality and scale of migration and roll-out. Our experienced Hapara consultants will work with your teams throughout, and transfer knowledge in how to get the best out of Google Apps for your organization.
Google Apps will significantly cut the cost of servers, storage and support, and improve the up-time and quality of service to your students and staff. We can assist you with integration of your existing SMS/provisioning systems with Google Apps for automated synchronization of accounts and login credentials, and migration of student email, contact and calendar data into Google Apps.
Hapara's Access Manager includes special features such as the ability for students to associate their Facebook and Google Apps identities in order to eliminate Google login prompts - as long as the student is signed into Facebook, they can quickly jump into their student email, calendar, Docs or Sites.
Primary and Secondary Schools
Google Apps offers particular value to schools. The Hapara team will work with you to get your school onto Google Apps, set up your users and groups, and ensure your domain is configured properly for mail delivery and routing. In most instances, the initial set up process takes a few days.
We will manage the migration of email content from older systems such as Exchange into Gmail so you can get rid of the old servers quickly and your users can retain access to their mail history.
Our Access Manager makes it easy to integrate with Learning Management (LMS) and Student Management (SMS) systems. You can automatically synchronize student accounts in your Google Apps with your SMS or directory services systems, and provide single-sign-on with Moodle and other LMS's.
