{"id":6082,"date":"2012-05-09T20:39:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.topsolutions.pt\/blog\/s-d-m-goes-google-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:38:11","slug":"sdm-goes-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topsolutionscloud.com\/es\/blog\/sdm-goes-google\/","title":{"rendered":"S.D.M. goes Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

S.D.M. – Sociedade de Desenvolvimento da Madeira, SA<\/a> is responsible, on behalf of the Regional Government of Madeira (Portugal), for the management, administration and promotion of the International Business Centre of Madeira (IBC). These responsibilities include the construction of the infrastructure in the Industrial Free Trade Zone of Madeira and the promotion of MAR \u2013 Madeira\u2019s International Shipping Register.<\/p>\n

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Since the beginning of its activity as the concessionaire of Madeira’s IBC, S.D.M. has established a network of correspondents and representatives in several countries with the aim of providing full local support to investors interested in setting up and investing in Madeira’s IBC. Presently, S.D.M. has representative offices in Italy, U.K., Germany, Greece, USA, France, Norway, Monaco, Switzerland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands and Argentina.<\/p>\n

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Leonel Silva , the IT Manager at S.D.M. and the person directly responsible for the global policy, implementation, development and administration of all IT resources of the company, tell us about their migration to Google Apps:<\/p>\n

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For many years, we had a Communigate Pro server which had on average a 85% uptime and demands more then 15 hours per month just for maintenance. We offer at the most 10GB as email quota and we fought spam with some difficulties (with a solution called Sophos). At that time we performed daily backups for all the accounts to prevent data losses and we had to install, support and keep updated all mail clients (Apple Mail.app, MS Outlook).<\/p>\n

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When considering all that, our growing needs and the few IT resources available to support all the company departments (from Administration Board to Sales and Marketing, passing by the Administrative or the Industrial Free Trade Zone Departments), we realized we needed a change.<\/p>\n

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After a detailed evaluation of the enterprise Google offering and also considering other high profile companies experience, our management had no doubt that Google will help us to better communicate as a team and with our business partners.<\/p>\n

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So, we decided to switch to Google Apps for Business which offered a far more reliable, secure, integrated and cost-effective way for our employees to communicate from their desks or on the road. Easily managed by a small IT team, Google Apps allows us to achieve our top 3 goals:<\/p>\n