Google Apps Goes Statewide With Wyoming Government.

Wyoming has become the first state government to do an enterprisewide rollout of Google Apps, Gov. Matt Mead and company executives announced at a press conference Wednesday, June 22.

By moving 10,000 state employees to Google’s cloud-based e-mail and productivity suite, Mead said the new tools will enable improved communication and collaboration, and provide better storage capacity and cyber-security protection.

Mead said:

And what it’s ultimately going to do is provide the state of Wyoming — that is, our public employees, my office, every state and public employee — the opportunity to do our job better, because we now have a better tool

The state expects to save more than $1 million annually — a figure that state CIO Flint Waters said was very conservative when improved employee productivity and server and licensing costs are factored in.

The state had been operating 13 different e-mail platforms in its executive branch agencies before the migration.

Check out the state of Wyoming’s gone Google press conference in the video below which gives an insight into the decision making and facilitation of their move to Google.

Read the full story over at Govtech.com (http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Google-Goes-Wyoming.html)