罗氏集团（罗氏大药厂母公司）在全球140个几个国家总计有超过9万名员工，将成为Google Apps的第二大客户，仅次于拥有11万员工的西班牙银行BBVA。

专注于医疗保健研究的罗氏集团（Roche Group）周四（2/16）宣布将以Google Apps作为全球逾9万名员工的协作与通讯平台，并成为Google Apps第二大客户。

Roche Group财务长暨资讯长Alan Hippe表示，过去的两年半，该公司两种不同的电子邮件与行事历平台已成为有效协作的绊脚石，为了解决平台互通问题，Roche企业执行委员会决定要把所有的员工转到单一且共通的Google Apps平台。

罗氏集团在全球140个几个国家总计有超过9万名员工，Hippe说，Google Apps的综合性及其以社交为中心的方式非常引人注目，期待此举除了可让公司更为紧密外，也带来策略上的优势。此外，相较于在资料中心部署复杂架构，只要透过控制面板即可部署Google Apps，将让该公司能更专注其核心业务。

Hippe指出，Roche员工未来将可透过任何连网装置存取邮件与文件，不需透过VPN等远端存取系统，有利于在家工作或是出外的员工，减少IT支援团队的负荷；消除通讯与创新的障碍，并强化行动存取能力为该公司IT策略的关键。

目前Google Apps全球最大的客户为今年2月宣布导入的西班牙银行BBVA（Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria），BBVA全球共有11万名员工的部署。

Roche moving 90,000 workers to Google Apps

Collaboration was being held back by different email and calendaring platforms, says the pharma giant

 

Healthcare giant Roche has announced it will be moving 90,000 workers to Google's cloud-based Apps platform, in a move the company hopes will improve collaboration between workers.

According to Dr. Alan Hippe, CFO and CIO of the Roche Group, there was one specific issue that was causing problems for the company. "For the last two and a half years, our two different email and calendaring platforms have often been an obstacle for effective collaboration," he wrote on Google's blog.

The ability for workers to carry out their duties from anywhere in the world was one of the key attractions of Google's platform, Dr. Hippe said.

"The way our employees communicate and collaborate is diverse, and our employees are spread across over 140 countries," he said. "The integrated and socially-focused way that Google Apps enables collaboration is very compelling, and we expect this to not only bring our company closer together, but give us a strategic advantage."

"Employees will be able to access their email and documents from any web-enabled device, without using remote access systems such as VPN. This will make it easier for employees to work from home or on the go and it will reduce the strain on our IT support teams," he added.

The addition of Roche to Google's Apps portfolio follows the recent announcement of its biggest ever rollout, when Spanish bank BBVA, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, agreed to shift 110,000 workers in 26 countries to the platform.

That was also one of the most significant rollouts as it was the first large-scale cloud move by a bank, an industry that has traditionally shunned the cloud over security features. That announcement came just after the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) abandoned its plan to move the Google Apps because it said the service cannot meet stringent FBI security guidelines.