Ons studenteraadspan gebruik elke dag Google Apps om Vanderbilt 'n beter plek te maak. Google is besig om die manier te verander hoe Vanderbilt-studente betrokke raak, saamwerk en leer.

Wyatt Smith, Vanderbilt se studenteraadpresident

Uitdaging

Vanderbilt wou 'n beter manier hê om saam te werk en hulle het begin soek na 'n stelsel wat hul studente sou bemagtig om te werk, te kommunikeer en saam te werk, en wat 'n beter tegniese ervaring sou oplewer. Vanderbilt se IT-personeel het geluister toe die studenteraad hulle aangemoedig het om na Google Apps oor te skakel. Vanderbilt het ook 'n soekoplossing benodig wat groot volumes soektogte – byna 300 000 per maand – op sy openbare webwerf kan hanteer.

Oplossing

Vanderbilt selected Google Apps Education Edition, a free version of Google Apps optimized for on-campus use. Within thirty days they were up and running an opt-in email solution for their undergraduate population, providing new email and collaboration tools that students welcomed and quickly put to use. Once Vanderbilt started using Google Apps, evaluating the Google Search Appliance (GSA) was a natural next step. Relevance and speed were particularly important since search would need to process some 30-60 queries per minute on the public website.