Case Study: Georgetown University achieves unified campus collaboration and $120K annual savings with Google Cloud Platform

Georgetown University connects the community on campus and beyond using Google for Education tools

Georgetown University, a historic institution with roughly 17,000 students and 2,200 faculty, sought to modernize its campus technology to better connect students, faculty, staff and alumni. The university’s fragmented, aging IT systems — including a 12-year-old email system with 250MB limits, disparate calendaring and file tools, and rising spam-filtering costs — were hindering collaboration and productivity.

University Information Services consolidated mail, calendar and file-sharing on Google Apps for Education, migrating 20,000 users in a 90-day rollout with training and faculty engagement. The move unified the community, enabled collaboration with Drive and Hangouts, extended lifelong accounts to alumni, retired in‑house servers, freed IT for strategic work, and saved about $120,000 per year in licensing costs.

Georgetown University

Marty Johnson

Senior Director, Enterprise Services and Chief Engineer