Journal Communications, Inc., headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was founded in 1882. Journal Communications is a diversified media company with operations in publishing, radio and television broadcasting and interactive media.
Journal Communications managed for years without significant problems, with their IT infrastructure until their second largest market, Las Vegas, had a catastrophic hardware crash – just weeks after they officially decided to move to Google Apps. Email, calendar and contacts were not recoverable for many. Some employees had been with the company for 15 years or longer and they lost everything.
Now the future of using a redundant, web-based solution really hit home with the company leadership. As we all know, email and calendar have evolved from nice-to-have tools to mission-critical business applications, and everything Google has come out with so far, simply just works says Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications - the Google tool set sells itself. Google Apps make the business environment more productive and more cost effective. Instead of IT being seen as a cost center, Journal Communications has taken the boundaries out of a static IT organization and started to make decisions that provide current and future business value.
Journal Communications as a 3,000-employee company that has rigorously adopted Google Apps. For more on Journal Communications use of Google apps click here to watch how Journal Communications utilizes Google apps on a daily bases.
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