BBVA employees shift to Google Apps

Spanish bank BBVA have announced that they its employees will stop using Microsoft Exchange and will switch to Gmail and other collaboration applications. Google’s application suite includes: Calendar, Docs, Groups, Sites, and videos.

It was reported that over 35,000 employees will start using the applications initially. By the end of year 2012, the staff of 110,000 workers in 26 countries is expected to be using the new technology.

The deal is a blow to Microsoft and is the single largest contract that Google has signed in their area of business and computing services in cloud computing on a global scale.

Google Apps can be accessed from the browser, without needing to install programs, like the traditional version of Microsoft Office. Google now has four million business customers using its Apps, while  Microsoft Office continues to be industry giant with
750 million customers worldwide.

BBVA CIO José Olalla was a guest author at Google Enterprise blog and wrote:

At BBVA we see technology as a key sustainable competitive advantage, and staying at the forefront of technology and business practices is key to our success. Today we’ve announced that we’re migrating our business to Google Apps to increase efficiency
and to help our teams to collaborate more easily, regardless of location.

We were looking for a technology that would transform our business operations – not just make our workers more efficient. Integrating the Google Apps for Business suite with our own tools will allow us to introduce a new way of working where employees
have access to all the information they need with just one click, no matter where they are or what kind of device they use, and can reap the benefits of using advanced collaboration tools.

We will migrate our old email systems to the cloud with Gmail. Google Talk, Google Sites and Google Docs will allow our teams to communicate and share ideas more easily – working in a way that they have never experienced before.

With Google Docs, for example, we’re excited about the real-time collaboration benefits – and we expect to increase productivity by removing the need to constantly update different versions of a document. We are developing our new global intranet (we
call it High Performance Desktop) taking advantage of Google’s collaboration tools, changing it from a corporate communications and process management site to a place where all employees will be able to share, contribute and manage knowledge globally.

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Posted by Awais Khan on Jan 12 2012. Filed under Business, Sci-Tech, USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry