Hey Portland! What Will It Take You For You To Move To The Cloud?

If you are a metro Portland, Oregon area IT Director, CIO or above you are invited to join Google & SADA Systems for a great evening downtown including a round-table discussion to learn more about how you can deploy a productive, more secure desktop infrastructure for your organization with Google Apps for Business. It’s not just about Google Apps, it’s about how you can make the cloud work for you.

The event will feature a great happy hour, a delicious dinner, many opportunities to network and a great speaker - Tony Totorice - most recent past CIO of the State of Washington. Tony will be sharing how organizations need to look beyond the data center to the cloud - in fact - "You don't need NO stinkin' data center."

Join us on Thursday, April 21st, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Portland City Grill at the US Bancorp Tower in Downtown Portland. To RSVP, please click here.

SADA Webinar: Google Apps for MS Office Collaboration and Document Management

What happens when your organization leverages the most robust data centers in the world, and gives your users the best set of collaboration tools available?

Your organization experiences immense cost savings, a renewed focus on driving real business value, and eliminates the endless cycle of 'maintaining' systems which accounts for eight of every ten IT dollars spent (Gartner, 2007).

OffiSync now provides an integrated interface within MS Office that takes organizations' Google Apps experience to a whole new level. Their intuitive integration enables users to keep using Microsoft Office while collaborating and sharing their content further increasing productivity.

Through OffiSync you can now search, retrieve, and manage all MS Office files on Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Sites. With OffiSync you can now manage multiple versions with automatic change updates and real-time editing thus leveraging Google's powerful collaboration platform from Microsoft's familiar interface.

Google Apps - Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites, and more - are reliable, secure, online applications available wherever you can access the web.

At SADA Systems we will be hosting a webinar on January 27th from 1:00pm-2:00pm EST demonstrating how to help organizations go further in their Google Apps adoption and take advantage of the great collaboration opportunities and streamline document management.

To join the webinar please register here and feel free to submit questions here.

Space is limited so please reserve your webinar seat now!

SADA President/CEO Featured in TechZulu Interview

Tony Safoian, President and CEO of SADA Systems recently sat down for an interview with correspondent Josh Highland of TechZulu. TechZulu focuses on the technology and media business in Southern California, providing a platform for current news and information in the field via it's online interviews, blogs and other features.

To watch this report, please click here or go to http://techzulu.com/sada-systems-developing-custom-solutions.html.

Tony discussed the cutting-edge, best-of-breed technology solutions that SADA brings to meet their business objectives. He also took Josh through the exciting things that SADA is doing in the software-as-a-service space, most notably with Google Apps.

Also featured was Tony's announcement that SADA is co-sponsoring with Google a free "Breakfast and Learn" session at the City Club of Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 9th. For more information please click here or go to: http://sadasystems.com/sadasystems/aboutsada/newsroom/2008/jul29/

You're Invited! Google Apps and "The Big Switch"

Computing in the Cloud? Software as a Service? Google Apps? What's it all about? If you want the answers to these and many other questions here is an opportunity to ask tough questions of some of the top Google and SADA engineers and experts in Google Apps.

On September 9th, SADA Systems, Inc. in partnership with Google will present a "Breakfast and Learn" event, "Google Apps and the Big Switch." Attendees to this event will learn how Google Apps helps organizations increase productivity and save money following the "Software as a Service" model. SADA will also demonstrate how it has helped a variety of organizations implement Google Apps, including testimonials from current SADA clients.

This is the first of a series of such events to be sponsored by Google. SADA is proud to be the first Enterprise Partner asked to produce and host the program. As our thank you to our guests SADA Systems, Inc. will present a complimentary copy of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr to the first 50 registered guests who attend.

Event details are below:

Event Schedule
September 9th, Tuesday, 8:30am - 11:00am

8:30 - 9:00am
Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:30am
Google Presents:
Google Apps for your Enterprise

9:30 - 10:15am
SADA Presents:
Implementing Google Apps in your Organization

10:15 - 11:00am
Google Apps In-Depth: Break-Out session

Location:
City Club on Bunker Hill
Downtown Los Angeles
333 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90071


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Parking Information:
Parking costs $8.00 for the first 2.5 hours. $3.50 for each 10 minutes thereafter. $38.00 max / cash only. (This is Downtown Los Angeles!)

Gartner: "Windows is Collapsing; Microsoft Must Make Radical Changes"

Speaking at a Las Vegas conference Thursday, Gartner Research analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald described as "untenable" Microsoft's continuing challenges in developing future versions of the Windows operating system. Silver and Mac Donald predicted that if the Redmond, WA based company didn't make "radical change" to Windows soon, they risked becoming a "has-been."

In their presentation, the two analysts said Windows is "collapsing" and issued the following warning to Microsoft:

"Users want a smaller Windows that can run on low-priced -- and low-powered -- hardware. And increasingly, users work with "OS-agnostic applications," the two analysts said in their presentation. It takes too long for Microsoft to build the next version, the company is being beaten by others (GOOG) in the innovation arena, and in the future -- perhaps as soon as the next three years -- it's going to have trouble competing with Web applications and small, specialized devices."

We've been working on and talking about this concept for quite some time. We call it ZEROi.

Our experience around the use and implementation of Google Apps and other software as a service platforms confirms this. Why have lots of expensive hardware, bloated software and even more bloated operating systems when clean, simple, elegant and robust alternatives will do the job?

Don't wait for the consultants and pundits tell you what's next - give us a call here at SADA Systems at 818.766.2400 to see the future!