SADA recognized as one of the largest IT consulting and internet-based firms

The San Fernando Business Journal has listed SADA Systems as the 5th largest IT consulting firm and 7th largest internet-based firm in the greater San Fernando Valley area. Rankings are based on 2010 revenue numbers.

SADA Systems, found in 2000, has experienced tremendous growth in the last few years reporting over $6.5 million in revenue this past year. SADA can attribute much of its success to its focus on the emerging cloud computing services industry.

SADA is headquartered in North Nollywood, CA with national offices in Chicago, San Antonio and Washington DC and international presences in Indonesia and India. SADA recently received its federal GSA certification and announced partnerships with Esnatech, Boost eLearning and SecureAuth.

Pick up a copy of this week's July 4th edition for more info!

Get more bang for your buck... SADA now offers Google Apps integrated e-learning for new customers at no extra cost!

Good news! SADA has teamed up with Boost eLearning to offer integrated Google Apps eLearning Training courses for all new customers! Highlights of the Google Apps e-learning program include comprehensive follow-along demo videos, updated training courses material within 15 business days of a new Google Apps feature rollout, accessibility through the Google Apps interface under the ”more” button, and a reporting system which tracks which users have gone through the training. Useful and convenient for all Google Apps customers!

What does this all mean?

Added value to Google Apps
On its own, the training solution costs $10/user/year, but now will be included in the $50/user/year price for the first year when Google Apps licenses are purchased through SADA beginning July 5th, 2011. Meaning that you get more bang for your buck!

End-user training available 24/7/365

End-users can access the integrated Google Apps eLearning for Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites directly in the Google Apps interface through the “More” button.

A necessary complement to customized, live Google Apps training
SADA’s Google Apps e-learning training program is designed to complement and help reinforce end-user’s ability to benefit from the full functionality of Google Apps on their own schedule, at their own pace.

SADA is all about making cloud computing more accessible to the masses.

By offering integrated Google Apps eLearning into every new license sold, we are making the switch to the cloud is easier and less daunting. Read more about the Google Apps training promotion or contact us at googlesales@sadasystems.com for more info.

SADA Systems is now a federally certified Google Apps reseller and service provider!

To commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the birth of our country, we would like to officially announce that SADA Systems has been awarded a Multiple Award Schedule 70 contract with the General Services Administration (GS-35F-0460X)! This GSA contract certifies SADA Systems as a trusted provider of information technology services and allows government agencies with access to the GSA Schedule Contract program to contract directly with SADA for a variety of Google Apps related products such as Google Apps, Postini, and related services.

To celebrate the upcoming 4th of July holiday, let us showcase some of our past Google Apps government projects:

• Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks - SADA Systems helped this large government research and administrative agency with several remote offices and Field employees implement and manage the change to Google Apps.
• The City of Los Angeles - SADA handled the Google Apps SSO implementation and Google Apps product training for the nation’s 2nd largest city.
• Multnomah County, Oregon - The site of this years National Association of Counties (NACo) 2011 Annual Conference (don’t forget to visit the Google + SADA co-sponsored booth for goodies and 1-on-1 face time with Google Apps experts!). Multnomah is Oregon’s most populous county and SADA provided comprehensive Google Apps support services to help them go Google!
• Kent State University - Public schools and universities like Kent State can benefit from SADA’s Google Apps services. SADA assisted Kent State with a custom opt-in service and mailbox migration for over 120,000 students and faculty.

SADA’s GSA certification provides government agencies with the necessary confidence and reassurance to engage SADA for various IT solutions and services. SADA Systems’ GSA Certification is a direct result of the GSA’s evaluation and approval of SADA’s professional capabilities, performance history, and customer satisfaction.

"With over 12 million products and more than 18,000 vendors doing business through the GSA, SADA is delighted to add to the unique collection of pre-qualified vendors," says SADA Systems CEO Tony Safoian. "It will now be easier than ever for the Federal Government, and all State and Local Government agencies who can utilize our GSA Contract to procure products and services from SADA."

Read more about SADA’s GSA Award.

Microsoft Office 365 has arrived!

Microsoft officially announced the release of its much anticipated cloud computing platform, Microsoft Office 365.

As a cloud computing solutions provider and experienced Microsoft Partner, SADA Systems encourages current and prospective cloud customers to engage partners early on to take advantage of training, application development, solutions and other Microsoft Office 365 support resources.

How to engage a Microsoft Offer 365 partner for support and solutions services

• Visit SADA on Pinpoint and the Office 365 Marketplace
• Contact us at mssales@sadasystems.com
• Call us 818 766 2400

Google Apps for Education mailbox storage size increasing from 7 GB to 25 GB

Google recently announced that they will be increasing the storage limit for Google Apps for Education users from the previous 7GB to 25GB.

"Starting next week, new schools that migrate to Google Apps for Education will receive 25 GB mailboxes. Existing accounts will see their storage size increase over the next few weeks."

As a seasoned Google Apps for Education implementation partner, SADA Systems recognizes the increase as a signal of good times. At the time of Google Apps for Education's initial launch back in in 2006, users were offered a whopping 2GB of free email storage space. The edition's mailbox storage size has steadily increased over the years to 7GB and finally now to 25GB. Google recognizes that students and faculty have better things to do than spend time deleting spam and old email to free up email storage space.

Learn more about the increase here or contact SADA to get more information about how your school can "Go Google" and get 25GB of email space per user for free!

Archive Magic for Postini - Email archive migrator so you can find any message, anytime in one place!

As Email continues to be one of the most inherently valuable repositories of information, it is crucial that businesses are able to retain, manage, secure and search their email archives. The ideal solution is to meet retention requirements while providing ease of access to the archived data. Archive Magic for Postini (AMP) helps companies to efficiently address this by bulk uploading on-premise archive message data to Google Message Discovery powered by Postini to ensure that all email and attachments are housed in one secure, centralized, searchable repository.

How it works
Google refers to the process of moving legacy message archives into Google Message Discovery powered by Postini as Historic Message Journaling (or HMJ). AMP consists of a message delivery client and professional support services that enable easy migration of email data from different email archives to the Postini archive. AMP facilitates the migration without losing or compromising important message data.

Why IT admins love it
This email migration tool greatly reduces IT infrastructure costs and resources needed to maintain multiple email archives over the years. Its a common pain point for companies that have recently migrated to Google Apps and/or Positini as there is no native solution to migrate legacy emails messages to Postini. IT admins will find relief in having to manage just one highly secure email archive.

Why the company will love it
Having all message data imported into Postini ensures a standardized email retention policy across all email archive data. AMP is designed to help streamline IT processes and give the organization greater control over historical data without compromising data or disrupting existing business practices.

Features:

• De-duplication process keeps message archive clean and accessible
• Historical data imported by date of message, NOT date of import
• Optionally connect end-users to their very own personal historical data archive

Scenarios that AMP will be exceptionally handy for:

• Lawsuits
• Regulatory inquiry
• Audits
• Archive merges (following a re-location or corporate acquisition)
• Data exports of terminated or past employees

Email us for more info! Googlesales@sadasystems.com
Google Apps Marketplace listing: Archive Magic for Postini
Cloud Toolkit: More info

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Exciting!