Issue: Cutting-edge, Google-based email system for the City of Los Angeles
In 2009, The City of Los Angeles was facing an historic budget crisis. At the same time, the City direly needed an updated email system. After the City’s Information Technology Agency issued an RFP for a new system and conducted a comprehensive evaluation, it chose arnie berghoff & associates’ client CSC, which proposed installing a new “cloud”-based Google email solution. This system stood to address the City’s requirements by being both modern and affordable. The Google/CSC solution delivers a state-of-the art email system with all of Google’s features and applications. It also saves the City a substantial amount of money by reducing the need to replace and maintain dedicated email servers, as well as by requiring fewer employees to run such a system. Although a large competitor of Google waged a very strong lobbying campaign against the CSC/Google cloud system, arnie berghoff & associates successful convinced the City that the recommended system was the right solution.