[jseeba]

A great example of teeing people up to sell Google Apps internally. Does much of the basic heavy lifting, then packages for easy consumption (perfect for the first group of people who would evaluate).

High points:

- Money saved / time saved tally

- Easy way to edit the underlying assumptions

- Auto-creation of a tailored slide deck, info poster and spreadsheet

[mikeryan]

Agreed

Except my 5 person company could save $46,000!!!! and regain 279 hours!

Numbers like this would make most managers BS detectors go off they're almost worse then no numbers at all.

[Vivtek]

Yeah, my 1-person company could save $32,000 - how, they don't really say. That would be amazing, since my software licensing costs for the year are nil.

[julio_the_squid]

You have to click the 'assumptions' on the upper left. It seems that vast figure is generated by comparing to Microsoft Exchange, including sysadmin time.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value....

Also, it appears that in various 'assumptions' on this site, it is ignoring the total number of people working for the company. When you edit assumptions in one part, it reads...

How many people work at <company>? 1 [...] Think of the last time you worked on a group project. How many people were on that team? 10 [...] What percentage of <company> employees use laptops? 60%

So, apparently 10 times as many people worked on the last project as were employed by the company in total, and .6 of one employee uses a laptop.

[jseeba]

That's why it so significant that you can easily change the underlying assumptions (which updates the $$/time calculations).

It was a good counter to the BS meter that initially went off in my head too.

[mikeryan]

yeah none of those levers really do much for me.