Content and collaboration solutions are the foundation for productivity within any digital enterprise, and they are among the tools most commonly used by modern workers. Gartner emphasizes the ubiquity of these kinds of solutions by explaining that within the next three years, 80% of midsize and large enterprises will use a content, communication, and collaboration solution as part of a productivity and workspace strategy.
The digital enterprise generally looks to these types of solutions to offer user productivity, an agile storage and sharing system, external collaboration, and rigorous security for organizational data.
Here are the top 3 reasons why Enterprises look to Google’s G Suite:
1. A better way to communicate
These days, most people can quickly get up to speed on most productivity tools. But for the digital enterprise, with over a billion users all over the planet, Gmail has become adopted as a highly secure and easy to use service that easily serves the needs of both consumers and enterprises. What’s really important for busy users in the workplace, however, is that Gmail operates off Google’s superior search capabilities and uses threaded conversations to render and organize email trails. This gives users the ability to find stored emails, refer to particular themes/topics, and stay consistently apprised of changes to email threads with lightening fast search results.
Google Hangouts also helps users connect real-time with colleagues and host video calls and meetings with multiple people. Google Calendar can easily sync with Outlook and other calendaring tools, and can work with people both inside and outside the organization.
Google also provides 30GB of free storage, 24/7 support, synchronization with competing office suites, and has a marketplace of more than 4 million integrate-able apps to enhance the user experience. It’s tough to beat a solution that has users functioning within seconds of logging in.
2. Creating and sharing for the digital enterprise
G Suite is a package of applications, but Google was smart in how they created this foundation. Gmail, which in many ways is the heart of G Suite, became a wildly popular email service, with free storage and Google search functionality at it’s core. On top of that, Google added Docs, Slides, and Sheets. These are all critical for people to be able to tell stories and manage financials and projects, but because they are easily sharable without the need to manage servers or databases, they also become easy to collaborate with. This is what makes enterprises particularly enamored of G Suite – no hardware, file sharing, admin services to manage.
AllRecipes.com, a G Suite customer, also likes that their employees can access documents on mobile devices and from any location. What used to be beholden to individual hard drives is now accessible and usable by more users, and with greater ease for this digital enterprise.
3. A new way to collaborate and innovate
G Suite is a package of applications, but Google was smart in how they created this foundation. Gmail, which in many ways is the heart of G Suite, became a wildly popular email service, with free storage and Google search functionality at its core. On top of that, Google added Docs, Slides, and Sheets. These are all critical for people to be able to tell stories and manage financials and projects, but because they are easily sharable without the need to manage servers or databases, they also become easy to collaborate with. This is what makes enterprises particularly enamored of G Suite – no hardware, file sharing, admin services to manage.
AllRecipes.com, a G Suite customer, also likes that their employees can access documents on mobile devices and from any location. What used to be beholden to individual hard drives is now accessible and usable by more users, and with greater ease.
In the next blog in this series, we’ll look at other aspects of how G Suite is powering enterprises to grow and engage, and how they’re getting major benefits in terms of cost and agility.
