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Spring 2006
Mobile email saves council £2,000 a year per person
By introducing the mSuite wireless mobility solution for Lotus Notes users, a product of developer CommonTime, Leeds City Council is said to be on track for saving 30 minutes a day per mobile employee. That is understood to work out at a remarkable cost saving of £2,000 per employee per year. The council employs around 35,000 people, of whom over 12,000 have access to email. Initially the council has bought 500 mSuite licenses, and plans to add the same number again during this year. It wanted a solution that would provide end-to-end security, on-device security and simple centralised deployment to multiple mobile users. It also wanted managers and directors to be more productive, receiving and answering emails on the move, with options to extend business applications to handhelds at a later date. 
The council mounted an extensive pilot operation to compare CommonTime's mSuite against several mobility products including IBM's Everyplace and RIM's BlackBerry. According to CommonTime, its solution offered wider device coverage, both cradle-sync and wireless push email, and a minimal learning curve for end users. In short, it says, mSuite was easier to use than competing packages.
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