Hi,
Was just wondering if any organisations are using Google Apps and if they would be willing to share their experiences of migrating over to this system, how they manage it internally in terms of how to share content with one another or when to use Google Plus.
In addition to this how they work with the export to Excel function from Tessitura and how well this works?
Thanks,
Caspian
Hi Caspian,
We at New 42 migrated over to Google Apps in April. For the most part it's been a great transition. We offered training before and after migration (weeks before and a few months after) that people seemed to really appreciate. For the most part we had little grumbling internally. And strangely the people who appeared to have the hardest time were those people that used Gmail personally and assumed they already knew everything it could do (which they didn't). Our transition into using Google Drive and the Google document types has been more gradual and organic. I'm trying to make the point that while we can create groups and reflect permissions on those docs the same way we would do in Windows, the whole environment is different (flatter) so you really should treat each document on its own terms and share per person or group as needed... If that makes any sense. We're still kind of figuring out how we might use Google Plus. I think it has great potential to basically be an intranet communications device (i.e., instead of lots of AllStaffs), but we haven't gone too far down that road yet.
I'm also very interested in creating Google Apps to more tightly and directly integrate Tess with our Google Domain. So that, instead of necessarily exporting to Excel from Tess, we could maybe pull from a Google App into a Google Spreadsheet or something like that. We'll see how it goes.
Please let us know what you discover if/when you transition as well.
Thanks
Rc