Comments on: "Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Makes Its Move: Office 2.0 – time for Banks to rethink Office Suite strategy?" http://thebankwatch.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/ Tracking the evolution of financial services Thu, 10 May 2012 08:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anthony http://thebankwatch.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-7488 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:14:49 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-7488 Perhaps Google could offer a similar service to the Google enterprise search appliance where the application could be run on site.

]]> By: Colin http://thebankwatch.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3948 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:53:08 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3948 Thanks Brad for those excellent practical points, especially #1.

]]> By: Brad Garland http://thebankwatch.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3945 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:07:14 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3945 I definitely agree with you but there are some considerations that have to be consider for making a switch.

1) Privacy/Security – As big a web apps fan I am, I’m still running into concerns with how security stacks up for these types of apps. The Web2.0 movement is more about collaboration and sharing and banks are taught, via regulators/examiners, to distrust anything that’s not totally secured and to keep things behind firewalls.

2) Change – I agree that most bank employees are only using 10-15% of the capabilities of the Office apps but getting someone to change what they’ve already known is going to take understand and approvals from the top to filter down, otherwise people won’t want to do it.

3) Google Limits – Our company utlizes the Google hosted service for our email and calendaring and it’s great for us, but we’re small. And Google has limited the number of people per company to sign up for the service to 50 email addresses. So if you wanted to use Google in Banks, better be a denovo bank. :)

]]> By: Classic Disruption: Microsoft Dismisses New Google Apps as Inferior « Bankwatch http://thebankwatch.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3928 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:38:47 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/techcrunch-blog-archive-google-makes-its-move-office-20-time-for-banks-to-rethink-office-suite-strategy/#comment-3928 [...]  Great blog here studying disruptive technology.  This post is on to something we covered before, when I reviewed the use of Microsoft Office in Banks.  [...]

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