US Army Uses Cloud Email System to Make Efficiency Savings
Tasked with making effiency savings in the face of budget restrictions, the United States Army has recently moved its email systems to the cloud.
The move is part of an overall process improvement process that is designed to cut costs and improve the efficiency of the Army.
The United States Army recently moved its email system to the cloud as part of a process improvement effort to save costs and improve efficiency.
Mike Krieger, the Army's deputy chief information officer, said that the new email system was rolled out with the helpof a Lean Six Sigma style approach to the transition process.
"We have made more improvement on business processes between the Army and (the Defense Information Systems Agency) than you could imagine," Krieger said at a recent symposium in Washington, D.C. "The biggest thing that enterprise email has done is establish some discipline … (on) business processes. We didn't have that."
The news comes after the United States Navy won the award for best Business Process Management project at the recent Process Excellence Week conference in Florida. The Navy undertook a process improvement and automation project in order to help Navy Seals on operation.
DISA and the Army are also enjoying cost savings, in addition to improved efficiency. Specifically, the Army is paying approximately 25 percent of the annual $150 to $190 fee it paid per person prior to moving to the DISA cloud.
In December of last year, Joseph Westphal, Under Secretary of the Army, noted in a speech that it's especially important for the Army to embrace process improvement methodologies given declining budgets and the need to do more with less, according to the Army's website.
The Armed Forces join a growing band of organisations that are looking to the cloud to improve their business processes, with many leading companies gaining a competitive advantage from their adoption of cloud technologies.
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