Google Workspace for Energy Efficiency Fund

The Energy Efficiency Fund is a state institution that provides tools for the thermorenovation of apartment buildings in which condominiums (apartment building co-owners associations) have been established. The purpose of the Fund is to support energy efficiency initiatives, introduce incentives and support the implementation of measures to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and energy saving, in particular in the residential sector.

Business challenge

The Energy Efficiency Fund was faced with a challenge: to inform the population of Ukraine as soon as possible about the existence of a new housing restoration program, so that everyone could find out full information about the program.

Result

Thanks to the flexible and simple tools of Google Workspace, the Foundation was able to create its own website without the involvement of contractors, IT department and additional costs.

Solution

The Energy Efficiency Foundation has partnered with Wise IT for several years now, as it provides seamless and cost-effective access to advanced Google solutions such as Google Workspace Business Standard subscriptions. Thanks to Google Workspace tools, the organization received: email correspondence without viruses and spam, effective meetings with recording in Google Meet, a convenient space for storing corporate documents with authorized access, the ability to work remotely on any device: from a computer to a smartphone – all these features came in handy from the start quarantine.

The war brought new challenges. Many residential buildings in Ukraine were destroyed or damaged. The Fund has developed a program to compensate for the costs of restoring houses from condominiums, and it was necessary to inform the population about the existence of such a program as soon as possible.

Since the Energy Efficiency Fund is a state institution, all purchases are made within the limits of the procurement legislation of Ukraine, as well as in accordance with the requirements of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which must be taken into account in the course of procurement. The Fund strictly complies with these requirements, but, unfortunately, sometimes this slows down the process. Therefore, when we needed to create a separate website for the RestoreDOM Foundation Program, the sustainable development department suggested not to purchase these services, not to waste time, but to try to create it ourselves, using the tool that we already had in our Business Standard subscription from Google Workspace. We are very pleased with the result.

Vyacheslav Kolbasinsky, Head of the Information Technology Department of the Foundation

For some reason, when we talk about Google Workspace, everyone always thinks of corporate Gmail, convenient co-editing of documents and saving them to Google Drive, a simple and functional Google Meet tool for meetings. And almost no one mentions the simple and convenient functionality of Google’s website creation solutions. With the help of ready-made templates and visual editing, creating a site for both internal use (for example, a corporate portal for documents) and external visitors becomes as easy as a presentation file. And to publish such a site, you don’t even need to buy your own domain. You can publish it on a special section of the site.

Sergey Yarovoy, Head of Corporate Clients Department, WISE IT

After weighing all the “pros” and “cons” (of which there were almost none), the representatives of the Fund decided to use Google Sites to create and distribute a new site.

The launch of the new Program required quick decisions. That is why we decided to use the website builder from Google. First of all, we already had the relevant experience of using the platform, because we have been using the platform for several years. Secondly, the convenience and simplicity of the website builder allows you to create a business card website without professional programming skills. In addition, we do not need to worry about the domain name or possible attacks on the site, because Google “runs” everything. And a separate bonus is the automatic adaptation of the mobile version of the site. Welcome to our website.

Marina Ananyina from the Sustainability Department.

We have an ambitious goal: to ensure that as many organizations as possible, both in business and in government structures, are convinced of how simple and convenient services from Google Workspace help our customers get their work done faster and gain a competitive advantage in the market. As a Google Premier Partner in Ukraine, we use every opportunity not only to sell Google services and educate our clients, but also to organize pilot implementations and migrations to Google Workspace from competing services.

Victoria Semenovich, Cloud Solution Specialist, WISE IT