These are companies that ditched Microsoft Office and/or Office 365 for Google's Apps for Work.
Although it looks like Microsoft Office 365 has been sprinting ahead of Google Apps these days, Google has been slowly creating an army of converts.
Business Insider spoke to one such director of IT, PopSugar's Bjorn Pave who moved the company's nearly 500 employees to Google Apps for Work in late 2013.
Pave took the job as PopSugar's director of IT in early 2013, after a long career managing Microsoft software, including Office, Outlook and Exchange, for various other companies.
When he arrived, PopSugar, which operates a network of news and entertainment websites, had been using a combination of old-fashioned installed Microsoft Office software, and the Office 365 cloud for email.
Going Rogue
But the company's LA production team had gone rogue and signed up for Google Apps. They needed real-time documents to help them manage their film shoots and other schedules. With Google Apps, multiple people could be in the same document at the same time and changes would show up on everyone's phones as they were typed. No syncing, no attachments, no delays.
PopSugar's cofounder husband and wife team (CEO Brian Sugar, editor and chief Lisa Sugar) wanted the whole company to switch to Google.
But Pave knew that canceling that Microsoft contract early would be "very costly," in fines, he told us. So before he switched, the IT department did a shoot-out with Office 365 and Google Apps f0r Work.
Google won.
Although it looks like Microsoft Office 365 has been sprinting ahead of Google Apps these days, Google has been slowly creating an army of converts.
Business Insider spoke to one such director of IT, PopSugar's Bjorn Pave who moved the company's nearly 500 employees to Google Apps for Work in late 2013.
Pave took the job as PopSugar's director of IT in early 2013, after a long career managing Microsoft software, including Office, Outlook and Exchange, for various other companies.
When he arrived, PopSugar, which operates a network of news and entertainment websites, had been using a combination of old-fashioned installed Microsoft Office software, and the Office 365 cloud for email.
Going Rogue
But the company's LA production team had gone rogue and signed up for Google Apps. They needed real-time documents to help them manage their film shoots and other schedules. With Google Apps, multiple people could be in the same document at the same time and changes would show up on everyone's phones as they were typed. No syncing, no attachments, no delays.
PopSugar's cofounder husband and wife team (CEO Brian Sugar, editor and chief Lisa Sugar) wanted the whole company to switch to Google.
But Pave knew that canceling that Microsoft contract early would be "very costly," in fines, he told us. So before he switched, the IT department did a shoot-out with Office 365 and Google Apps f0r Work.
Google won.
