{"id":499655,"date":"2017-12-09T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/salem-municipality-a-new-life-with-g-suite\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:33:53","slug":"salem-municipality-a-new-life-with-g-suite","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-se\/success-story\/salem-municipality-a-new-life-with-g-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem was the first municipality in Sweden to implement G Suite for Business."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2010 Avalon Solutions helped them move employees and students from a Microsoft-based environment. Avalon Solutions has continued to work closely with Salem as a trusted adviser for cloud strategy and change management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010 Salem was faced with the choice of upgrading their existing solution, which would have been very costly, or move to a cloud based solution. After extensive evaluation of available solutions on the market, Salem municipality chose Google Apps. This was a step well aligned with their strategic decision to exchange existing on premise applications and services with innovative, cost efficient cloud based services by 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are a modern municipality. Cloud computing and G Suite is an obvious choice. G Suite platform not only gives us a reliable and cost effective solution for standard functionality such as email and calendar, but also web-based tools that allows us to streamline and modernize the way we work\u201d<br>Tony S\u00f6derlund, IT manager at Salem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life for Salem with G Suite today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today the solution has proved to exceed expectations. G Suite enables Salem municipality to collaborate in new ways, makes them more efficient and saves the organisation time and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By choosing a cloud based service that is easy to manage, the IT department of Salem\u2019s municipality can focus on developing and preparing the IT environment for the future. G Suite has given them the control needed to make strategic decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And thanks to the new smart functionality and features that are added to G Suite all the time, the service continues to be modern and innovative. A perfect fit for a modern, young inhabitant municipality as Salem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wins for Salem with G Suite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Work as you live. Employees can access the same information from anywhere with any device. Same interface.<\/li><li>Better collaboration.<\/li><li>Access to web based tools that enables creativity and makes work easier.<\/li><li>File sharing made simple<\/li><li>No expensive upgrades or hardware<\/li><li>Pay as you use license model<\/li><li>Scaleable<\/li><li>Easy manageable<\/li><li>Administrative tools that helps IT department to stay in control<\/li><li>More time for IT department to spend on core business: To keep up with challenges, and plan strategically for the future instead of<\/li><li>spending time on operations.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2010 Avalon Solutions helped them move employees and students from a Microsoft-based environment. Avalon Solutions has continued to work closely with Salem as a trusted adviser for cloud strategy and change management. 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