
- Somerset County in Maine increased energy efficiency with the new strategy, cutting its IT costs by 40%.
- The Southeast Library System, which provides computing services to over 7 dozen libraries in Minnesota, reduced its expenses over $20,000 by transitioning to an email platform based on the approach.
- InformationWeek predicts that the total services provided through the method will represent a worldwide market of $180B by 2016;
- Business Insider revealed in 2012 that even at that point, 4 out of 5 state and local governmental CIOs were using some form of services reliant on the technology for their organizations;