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As budgets tighten, councils need to manage costs, demonstrate value for money and increase internal operational efficiencies. Online tools are becoming more powerful, easier to use, and are often free.
Contact Google Enterprise to discuss how the Google Search Appliance and Google Apps can improve efficiencies in your organisation.
The Google Search Appliance 6.0 improves employee productivity by making all the information that your employees need accessible through a single easy-to-use search box. It can also provide universal search across billions of documents in both internal and external sources. What’s more, it can also be customised to your specific security needs.
Google Apps lets you save time and money by outsourcing email, calendar and office applications to Google, giving you the ability to focus on citizens, not IT maintenance. Create and share presentations, documents, spreadsheets and more with real time input from colleagues. Estimate your cost savings from using Google Apps.
Encouraging visitors to interact with you via your website in place of telephone or face-to-face encounters can significantly reduce your costs. If you set target costs per interaction, Google Conversion Optimiser is an AdWords feature that helps you monitor and adjust your CPC bids accordingly.
“With Google Apps we saved the cost of two full time employees (approx. £50,000) and between £30,000 and £60,000 in licence fees”
Ed Laccohee, Director, Controlled Projects.
Westminster City Council describe how using Google Search Appliance completely transformed their site. “The one thing we’ve learned is that the use of search is critical for councils. And no one does search better than Google,” says Merlin Sinclair, Communications Department, Westminster City Council.
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Learn how staff at Camden Borough Council have embraced search into their working day with the end result being an improvement in productivity.
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London Borough of Brent facilitates rapid access to 450 council services with the Google Search Appliance.
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Somerset County Council describe how Google's Search Appliance helps integrate public services in Somerset and helps the public to find the answer they're looking for.
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