In addition to reducing infrastructure, moving to
Google Apps can also have a significant benefit on
IT costs. According to Forrester, the break-even
time for organizations that switch to Google Apps is
approximately seven months and the ROI is 307%.16
Take, for example, Dan Petlon, CIO of Enterasys, a global
provider of unified communications (UC) solutions and
network infrastructure for enterprises, who said the
company’s move to Google Apps was sold internally
as a way to cut costs. Enterasys’ last move from
Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 required
re-architecting some of the back-end infrastructure that
took the equivalent of two man-years from planning
to implementation. The notion of doing this every few
years, “all for six new user-facing features nobody really
noticed” was unappealing, Petlon said.