CommonTime saves local government 2000 per employee per year following Gershon Report

The adoption of CommonTimeís mSuite wireless Lotus Notes mobility solution has been a resounding success and Leeds City Council is on track to saving 30 minutes per day per mobile employee. For a 5-day week, 40-wk year, on average salary this equates to a cost saving of 2,000 per year per employee

Leeds City Council, local UK government and the second largest metropolitan local authority in England, needed to find a scalable mobility solution that securely extended Lotus Notes to a wide range of handheld devices. The council employs approximately 35,000 people, of which over 12,000 have access to email. The solution needed to encompass end-to-end security, on-device security and simple centralized deployment to multiple mobile users. Also to allow its managers & directors to be more productive, enabling them to receive and answer emails on the move, with options to extend business applications to handhelds at a later date. There also exists pressure to meet Government set targets for cost efficiency and budgetary savings highlighted in a public sector report by Sir Peter Gershon

The Government-commissioned Gershon report reviews public sector efficiency. In particular, it sets out the scope for further efficiencies identified within the public sector’s back office, procurement, transaction service and policy-making functions. Identifying opportunities for increasing the productive time of professionals working in schools, hospitals and other frontline public service, and makes a series of cost-cutting recommendations to further embed efficiency across the public sector. Process automation through mobility is a catalyst in achieving these efficiency targets

CommonTime mSuite offered a flexible future-proof wireless email solution, specifically engineered for Lotus Notes. Established as an organisational standard, mSuiteís functionality and robust nature offered Leeds City Council the solution it was looking for

ìWe chose mSuite essentially because of its usability, it is more versatile than BlackBerry, because it allows more access to files such as Word and Excel and also because of a cost implication as well. It was less expensive than the other options looked at (without any loss in functionality).î ñ Corporate ICT Services, Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council comprehensive pilot compared CommonTimeís mSuite against several mobility products including IBMís Everyplace and RIMís BlackBerry

Offering wider device coverage, both cradle-sync and wireless push email, with a minimal learning curve for end users, mSuite was easier to use than competing packages, ensuring a faster route to productivity. Details of the Councilís key objectives and benefits for the mobility project, together with hardware, software and carrier details are highlighted in a CommonTime Case Study developed in partnership Leeds City Council ICT

Results of the implementation included purchase of 500 mSuite licenses which will double during Q2, 2006. Leeds City Council is also on track to saving 30mins per day per mobile employee. For 5-day week, 40-wk year, on average salary this equates to a cost saving of 2,000 ($3,500) per year per employee

For further information, and to request the full case study please contact info@commontime.com