TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: Mortgage Choice's clever cloud call

Mortgage Choice has proved the naysayers wrong about its early move to the cloud and is now keen to embrace the next wave of cloud applications.

By Charis Palmer ·
6 Dec 2011

Technology Spectator

When broker group Mortgage Choice decided to deploy Google Apps across its business in 2009 it made for plenty of upbeat headlines.

But it didn't take long for the naysayers to emerge, says Mortgage Choice general manager of operations Neill Rose-Innes.

"I had one franchisee in Victoria who came to me at the state conference and said: ‘Just so you know, this decision to go Google Apps is the worst decision that Mortgage Choice has ever made',” he says.

"When we first rolled it out there was mixed views – they didn't like what they had but they didn't like what we were giving them. It was a typical user reaction to change.”

Two years on, Mortgage Choice has few regrets, and any hesitation it may have had about embracing cloud computing has been replaced with hope for what will come with the next wave of cloud applications.