Yes we reschooled people from 2007 to modern office.
You can't imagine how many man hours teaching one drive for business cost us.
We did a comparrison of open office and google docs vs ms office when we did our business case of course. Open office lost by around 1400% with some employees never learning it.
We don't just use office365 though, we use addons. Like automatically sending electronic mail through APIs that integrate with the national platform while using a custom template and journalizing into our record system.
Hell, we've build two word adding ourselves allowing citizens to digitally sign documents with their public identification.
> Yes we reschooled people from 2007 to modern office.
As in actual classes? How did this work? This sounds like an epic waste of money and everyone's time.
> We did a comparrison of open office and google docs vs ms office when we did our business case of course. Open office lost by around 1400% with some employees never learning it.
Yeah we've all done reports like this. They are usually an epic waste of time as usually everyone knows the answer they want before they start... I'm surprised that you managed to get results that were that favorable for the desired answer though - openoffice.org and the more recent Libre Office kept a similar UI to MS office 2003.
> We don't just use office365 though, we use addons. Like automatically sending electronic mail through APIs that integrate with the national platform while using a custom template and journalizing into our record system.
Sounds like 10-30 LOC each if you ran on FOSS systems (although obviously it is hard to tell without knowing what your exact requirements were) - I'm sure office365 saves you time/money in other ways though.
> Hell, we've build two word adding ourselves allowing citizens to digitally sign documents with their public identification.
Did you build libreoffice extensions as well? Or do you expect citizens to subscribe to your software choices? I don't mind what you do for internal software but forcing everyone to use the same software as you is a bad use of tax money.
Every citizen who doesn't opt out of it, is a digitized citizen.
That means they have a two-factor identity and an secured electronic mailbox hosted by us in the cloud.
So what our addons do is it allows a caseworker to send a document as a PDF directly to a citizen, who can then follow a link to our document signing server and sign it online. They don't need any kind of software to do so, because everything is supplied by us.
If they don't have a computer they can use one at a library our at our town hall. (Which run ubuntu by the way)
I get that you think we wanted office to win in our business case. That's not true, we simply show the political level the facts and they act accordingly.
You can't imagine how many man hours teaching one drive for business cost us.
We did a comparrison of open office and google docs vs ms office when we did our business case of course. Open office lost by around 1400% with some employees never learning it.
We don't just use office365 though, we use addons. Like automatically sending electronic mail through APIs that integrate with the national platform while using a custom template and journalizing into our record system.
Hell, we've build two word adding ourselves allowing citizens to digitally sign documents with their public identification.