More expert business advice from Google’s European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene
More expert business advice from Google’s European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene, as he explains how Google Apps works for businesses by eliminating unnecessary expenditure, problematic hardware and software, and effectively banks information to help companies succeed:
“Again every kind of business is suitable for the use of Google Apps. Originally we thought that it would have been something more beneficial to small or medium sized organisation because they don’t have the funds, they don’t have the resources, and they don’t have the infrastructure to use a hosted service inside their organisation.
But we are seeing them more and more that very large organisations are calling us just too just explore how they can use Apps inside their organisation whether it is for a division or whether it is for a specific kind of employee or for the organisation. But we are seeing that everybody now is interested in at least discovering what is on offer on this so called web to zero offering.
The most exciting thing is that I save a lot of money; this is only the first of the things. I don’t need any more very complex infrastructure, I don’t need to buy a license for all my employees, I don’t need to buy spam services, I don’t need to buy servers, I don’t need to buy filters for viruses for example or servers for all that software. I don’t need to buy infrastructure for filing and archiving old documents and the mail that a company receives and so on. Just think about the saving that you have in all this infrastructure when you can give everything host to someone that has hundreds of thousands of servers spread around the world.
Some people are definitely worried about having all their information online but we are going towards a phase where doing that is going to be the most natural thing to do. Just like when we used to put our money inside a mattress thinking it was safer. But now we take for granted the best place to put our money is actually the bank.
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In this business tv show Roberto solimene, European Enterprise Director, Google, details the iconic company's reasons for allowing their people to customise and personalise the environments they work in:
"Of course given the time you spend in an office, it is very important to have a personalised work space. We put a lot of emphasis in our work space at Google. We can be as creative as we want within some boundaries of course, but there has been a lot written about it. For example a few months ago we did a competition where all the teams inside the organisation could actually create their own personal space.
So you would see if you go around the office people creating spaces most different from each other. The enterprise team of course has a thing about Star Trek for example in the enterprise. Others have sandbags and bushes just to disguise computers and other kind of furniture.
But the point is that it is very important to the employee to create their own space and that they spend the time in a place that they like to be."
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More expert business advice from Google's European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene
More expert business advice from Google's European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene, as he explains the business principles that Google adheres to:
"One of the most important things is to actually focus on the user and everything will follow. This has been a fundamental thing of Google. We have never followed what our competitors were doing. We have never followed what the market was telling us to do. We actually followed what our user wanted. So this is where we focus and I think that has been a key success of Google over the years.
Another principle of Google of course is being focussed on your core business but do not spend 100 percent of your time on your core business. So spend something like 70 percent of your time on the core business, the business that really makes you go through your day by day activities but spend 20-30 percent of your time in other areas in other things that can help to diversify your business or can help to create new niches of businesses.
Well the core business of Google is of course search, advertising and Apps. But there are other products that came out in 20 percent of our time like orchard, like Google Apps. A lot of products that you find in Google Apps are products of somebody's 20 percent time. There are other products of Google that came out of that, I don't specifically remember which ones. But definitely all of those that don't belong to those three key core businesses came somehow out of that 20-30 percent of people's time."
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More expert business advice from inside the offices of Google, as European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene, reveals the tech tools they use, as well as the thinking that’s behind it and how they are able to work much smarter:
“We use exactly the same products and this was one of the points of Larry and Sergey and Eric before we even launched the Google Apps they wanted to be sure that they were using as a company exactly the same kind of products.
I think that is fundamental that is the trust that we put inside our products. We use exactly the same kind of information and we have seen a boost of productivity just by using this information. So wherever I am, I can have access to my mailbox without using any VPN because it’s all secured anyway. I can actually create and see the calendar of all my colleagues. I can actually have access to the active directory of all the company. I can actually have access to all the documents that I have created or that I have been invited to collaborate.
With time you will see all new products coming next to docs, spreadsheets, calendar and mail. So just think about groups and think about your personal page, think about a lot of other things that will be there. What is most exciting is that not only will we be able to present this to my customers but I will also be able to use it myself. So it is very important.
The consumerisation of IT is really here and we are driving that towards that phenomenon, where the employee and the user of the application inside a company are really first of all a consumer and he is driving the adoption of more simple to use applications. So I am able to have inside the organisation easy to use applications that I have over the internet at home.
Think again consumer products like the iPod, you know the Xbox or the TomTom for example. Just with your finger tips you can actually go immediately to the information you are looking for and you can do that now inside the organisation inside your company, so inside the place that you ...
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In this business tv show, Google’s European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene ...
In this business tv show, Google’s European Enterprise Director Roberto solimene explains the thinking that drives Google Enterprise, how they are working to organise the world’s information to make it more accessible and useful, and how these ideas could change the very way we work:
“So Google enterprise really was created like about three and a half years ago in the US. It started as I said before as a response to our customers or to the markets requesting to have a similar experience inside their companies as they had it on the internet. The first product was the Google search appliance and then in December 2004 we started the business here in Europe as well and it has been a fantastic growth.
We now have offices all over main Europe. We have sales, we have presales people, we have marketing people. We of course work together with the main Google organisation but it has been one of the fastest growing divisions inside the company.
The reason why there has been so much growth is because we have been simplifying tasks which were originally complex. So imagine using an iPod or using a TomTom, they are a very complex system in the background but very simple for the user. We want to bring the same experience to the users of our search appliance.
So imagine you are an employee and you go to the office and your searching your corporate intranet just as easily as when you are searching Google.com for example.
As a lot of people know our founders motto is to organise the world information and make it accessible and useful. We found out that more than 70 percent of the world’s information is actually behind a firewall. So imagine your corporate intranet, imagine your docs management system, imagine your databases, this is where most of the world’s information is.
We thought it was a great thing to do to bring our products to the corporate world as well as to the consumer world.”
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