Posted by
José Olalla, CIO at BBVA
Editors
note: Today, our guest blogger is José Olalla (@PepeOlalla), CIO at BBVA. BBVA
is one of the largest financial institutions in the world who today have
announced they are adopting Google Apps for Business to increase productivity
and drive innovation.
BBVA is a
customer-centric global financial services group founded in Spain in 1857. We
now have over 110,000 employees in more than 30 countries across the world.
At BBVA we
see technology as a key sustainable competitive advantage, and staying at the
forefront of technology and business practices is key to our success. Today
we’ve announced that we’re migrating our business to Google Apps to increase
efficiency and to help our teams to collaborate more easily, regardless of
location.
We were looking
for a technology that would transform our business operations - not just make
our workers more efficient. Integrating the Google Apps for Business suite with
our own tools will allow us to introduce a new way of working where employees
have access to all the information they need with just one click, no matter
where they are or what kind of device they use, and can reap the benefits of
using advanced collaboration tools.
We will
migrate our old email systems to the cloud with Gmail. Google Talk, Google
Sites and Google Docs will allow our teams to communicate and share ideas more
easily - working in a way that they have never experienced before.
With Google
Docs, for example, we’re excited about the real-time collaboration benefits -
and we expect to increase productivity by removing the need to constantly
update different versions of a document. We are developing our new global
intranet (we call it High Performance Desktop) taking advantage of Google’s
collaboration tools, changing it from a corporate communications and process
management site to a place where all employees will be able to share,
contribute and manage knowledge globally.
The
roll-out of Google Apps will be staggered, with more than 35,000 BBVA workers
in Spain initially using the Google Apps productivity tools. By the end of 2012
we expect to have migrated 110,000 employees across our global network.
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