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[G] Sanmina-SCI on "Kicking Google Apps' Tires – Hard"

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:55 PM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Sanmina-SCI on "Kicking Google Apps' Tires – Hard"

Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Tony Aug, Vice President for Enterprise Apps for Sanmina-SCI, a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering end-to-end manufacturing solutions for communications, medical, defense and aerospace, industrial, renewable energy, and other sectors.Tony has held a variety of leadership roles since joining Sanmina-SCI in 1996 and leads a global IT team supporting various aspects of the company's operations.

Last year, Sanmina-SCI's IT team asked, "Could Google Apps really replace Microsoft Exchange for a global, multilingual workforce?" After careful due diligence, the team recently completed a phased migration for 15,000 email users, charting a new course for IT.

Tony and Elliot Tally, Director, IT Collaboration and Automation will be available on a live webcast on Thursday, January 14, to share their story and answer your questions.

Sanmina-SCI is a leader in outsourced electronics manufacturing providing Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) with highly complex design and manufacturing solutions. It is a very competitive industry, so we're always looking to reduce overall IT spending while improving service levels. We have to do it with care. We're a large enterprise with 37,000 diverse employees and operations covering every continent except Africa and Antarctica.

When we looked at email and calendaring, we asked, "What are the viable alternatives to our current on-premise Microsoft Exchange 2003 system?" Whatever we chose had to be enterprise-ready. We took several months to answer all our enterprise-level questions, and came away knowing we should seriously consider Google Apps.

We knew that a services-based model would help make our employees more productive not only as individuals but also as teams – not only within the company but also with customers and suppliers. The benefits are greater than simple cost savings. They include better customer service, streamlined business processes, and increased flexibility. Productivity is not easy to measure, but it is more important than other factors in the long term.

There were a few requirements we needed from Google's offerings, mostly around managing user accounts and ensuring security, and we provided feedback in an iterative process and saw Google work quickly to address our issues. Convinced that Google Apps was right for us, we conducted two pilots and recently migrated 15,000 users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. From a strategic standpoint, a main driver for moving to Google Apps was low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

I'd be happy to share what we learned at Sanmina-SCI as a large enterprise that has made the move to Google Apps. Please join me for "Migrating 15,000 users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps by Sanmina-SCI. Join us for this live event.

Migrating 15,000 users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps by Sanmina-SCI
Thursday, January 14, 2010
2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. GMT

Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team

Find customer stories and research product information on our resource sites for current users of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino.


URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/sanmina-sci-on-kicking-google-apps.html

[G] New online safety video: Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:30 PM PST

Google Public Policy Blog: New online safety video: Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks

Posted by Mandy Albanese, Policy Communications

Today we're releasing the latest in a series of online safety videos as part of our Digital Literacy campaign. As we engage more students, parents and teachers about how to make good decisions online, many have noted how difficult it is to identify and avoid online scams. We know how tricky scammers can be. Our new video, Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks, shares some tips on how to avoid tricky online scams.

URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-online-safety-video-steering-clear.html

[G] Latin America Mapping Competition Winners

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:17 AM PST

Google LatLong: Latin America Mapping Competition Winners

When we launched the Latin America Mapping Competition at Campus Party in Mexico City on November 14, 2009, we weren't sure what to expect. This was Google's first ever mapping competition, after all. When the competition closed on December 15, 2009, we were impressed with the results. For example, mapping activity increased more than 1000% in some areas of Latin America.

Timelapse of Rosario, Argentina where most roads were mapped in one day for the Latin America mapping competition.

Hundreds of mappers entered the competition. Here are the winners:

Individual Prize
Winner: Daniel Mugaburu
"I've mapped several cities in Peru (my country of origin) because I know it very well, and a lot of areas need urgent updates. I've been mapping for almost one year already and I plan to keep on doing it. My motivation has always been helping others to find streets, hospitals, etc... in order to increase their life quality."
Born and raised in Peru, Daniel currently lives in Connecticut, USA.

Team Prize
Winner: The "Ukrainian Team" consisting of 8 mappers in Austria, France, Peru and the Ukraine who used Gmail, Google Wave and Google Docs to coordinate their mapping efforts.

City Prize
Winner: Lima, Peru
La Universidad Mayor de San Marcos will receive the 100 laptop donation.

Congratulations to all the Latin America Mapping Competition winners, and we invite mappers everywhere to participate in the Global Mapping Competition benefiting UNICEF that runs through January 31st.

Posted by Jennifer Mazzon, Maps Community Organizer
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/latin-america-mapping-competition.html

[G] Google Analytics IQ: Make Sure You're Searchable!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:17 AM PST

Google Analytics Blog: Google Analytics IQ: Make Sure You're Searchable!

If you've passed the Google Analytics Individual Qualification exam, you probably want people to know. One thing you can do is publish a link to your test record. But, you should also make sure that you're searchable from the Google Testing Center.



Here's how to make sure that people can find you. First, log in to the Google Testing Center. (Note: Use the login information you created during your first visit to the Google Testing Center.)


Access your profile on the Google Testing Center.

In the "Google Analytics Individual Qualification" section under "Would you like your name added to the database if you pass this test?", select the Yes option.


Click "Save Changes."

That's all there is to it. Now anyone searching for you on the Testing Center site will find you!

Posted by Helen Huang, Google Analytics Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-analytics-iq-make-sure-youre.html

[G] Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a community health center

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 10:06 AM PST

Official Google Docs Blog: Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a community health center

Guest post: David Margolius is a medical student at Brown University. He is spending the year in San Francisco as a research fellow and recently began working with Southeast Health Center to improve access, patient care, and clinic flow. He changed patient management at the clinic by using a shared Google Doc to make it easy for staff and providers to communicate in real time, without walkie-talkies, pagers, and interruptions.

Southeast Health Center is a community-oriented primary care clinic in San Francisco. Through Healthy San Francisco, a program created by the City of San Francisco, Southeast and other clinics make health care services accessible and affordable for uninsured residents. The program offers a new way for San Francisco residents who do not have health insurance, to have basic and ongoing medical care.

At Southeast, all of this work can make it difficult to keep track of which patients are in which rooms, how many patients are in the waiting room, and how far the doctors are falling behind with their patients for the day. Up until about a month ago, when patients checked in, the front desk would page the medical assistant who would then escort the patient to a room when one was free. The assistant would then let the doctor know that the patient was available. If patients were late, canceled their appointments, or the waiting room was overflowing, the doctor would be the last to know. All in all, communication was linear, uncoordinated, and difficult.

The medical director asked me try to figure out something better…anything better. After observing clinic flow for a few days, my first thought was to build some sort of intra-office communication device with switches and LED lights. I found an intra-office light communication system online and with the director's permission was ready to spend some big time money on it, but a friend of mine ruined all of my crazy ideas by saying: "Why can't you just do that in Google Docs?"

A few days later, Southeast Health Center fully incorporated the "Check-in Tracker", a shared spreadsheet on Google Docs, into their clinic flow which you can see a sample of below:



When a patient checks in at the front desk, the clerk types "a" into the slot where that patient was scheduled. Using the "change color with rules" function, that slot turns orange to let everybody in the clinic know that Dr. Mark's 8:15 AM patient has arrived. If the 8:55 AM patient arrives at 9:15 AM, the front desk types in "L 9:15" into that slot and the slot turns pink. Dr. Mark can look at the Google spreadsheet and type an "x" if he is unable to see the late patient or "ok" if he has time to see the patient. Patients in rooms turn green and indicate which room number. Discharged patients turn blue.

Everybody communicates in real time, because we are all signed into the same account. Medical assistants, doctors, providers, clerks, and nurses are communicating with each other more efficiently. It is pretty incredible to see.

Google Docs has made this all possible, no mechanical engineers or big time money required. Check out this template in the Google Docs template gallery to try it out yourself.

Posted by: David Margolius, Clinic Coach, Southeast Health Center, Margolius@gmail.com
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-google-docs-to-facilitate-patient.html
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