The Medical City to use Google Apps for Business

MANILA, Philippines - Committed to deliver service of greater worth, The Medical City, one of the country’s leading world-class tertiary care hospitals with over 40 years of experience in hospital operations and administration, recently signed an agreement with IP-Converge, the country’s first and only publicly listed Internet data center and cloud services provider, to avail itself of Google Apps for Business — cloud-based enterprise productivity tools from global leader in cloud computing, Google.

Mimi Dizon, IP-Converge sales director for business solutions, said, “We are proud to be providing Medical City with the tools it needs to maintain productivity in a fast-paced environment. With seamless operations through online collaboration and file sharing, plus highly reliable and secure email service, Medical City can focus on its core purpose of providing world-class healthcare services.”

As the largest Google Enterprise Partner in the Philippines, IP-Converge helps customers integrate Google Apps into their business operations to reduce IT costs, streamline internal processes, and increase overall workplace productivity.

IP-Converge is the country’s largest Google Enterprise Partner and receives training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating Google Apps into a customer’s business.

Dr. Mike Muin, chief information officer of The Medical City, said, “Our IT department is proactive in reviewing and investing in current and newer technologies to help our employees and clinicians work effectively and efficiently. We strive our best to find solutions that provide the best ROI for the hospital.”

Because it’s cloud-based, Google Apps require no hardware or software — therefore no capex on equipment and licenses — and needs minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for organizations.

Subscribers get e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendaring and scheduling, groups, intranets and video sharing all in one very cost effective package.

For a flat per user per year fee, Google Apps includes 25GB of storage per user in Gmail, powerful and customizable spam protection, BlackBerry and Outlook interoperability, instant messaging, voice and video chat capability, as well as 99.9 percent uptime SLA.

Dizon said, “Like Medical City, we see more verticals tapping into cloud based IT resources like Google Apps for Business. IP-Converge is here to help enterprises achieve and maintain operational efficiency and continued productivity.”