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Engineered for your enterprise. </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div class='cols-wrapper loading'> <div class='col-main-wrapper'> <div class='col-main'> <div class='section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='post' data-id='4749637163247676678' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='ASICS stays on top of its IT game with Google'> ASICS stays on top of its IT game with Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, October 17, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kaori Negoro, Head of Google Cloud Marketing for G Suite, JAPAC</span><br /> <br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-LEXBzFjzqQ" width="640"></iframe><br /> <br /> From street fashion to the Olympic arena, ASICS has provided quality products to its customers for more than six decades. But when it comes to sports, being the best has never been just about tenure. Athletes reach new heights thanks to a number of factors, including innovation in the sportswear that they rely on for peak performance. <br /> <br /> Much like their athletes, ASICS is evaluating the tools they use to perform at their peak — but in IT. Many companies across industries are asking, “how can our global brand stay competitive in a crowded, ever-changing business landscape?” For ASICS, innovative IT is a major part of their regimen. From studying athletes' performance and predicting the needs of customers, to developing products in smarter ways, technology is now the driving force. As a global team, ASICS stays in sync around the world by using G Suite tools like video, instant messaging, collaborative documents and storage, which help ASICS’ employees create and innovate effortlessly. <br /> <br /> Together, ASICS and Google Cloud are partnering in IT innovation to help deliver exceptional sporting experiences to athletes around the world. To find out more about G Suite products, visit <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/">https://gsuite.google.com/together/</a>. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kaori Negoro, Head of Google Cloud Marketing for G Suite, JAPAC</span><br /> <br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-LEXBzFjzqQ" width="640"></iframe><br /> <br /> From street fashion to the Olympic arena, ASICS has provided quality products to its customers for more than six decades. But when it comes to sports, being the best has never been just about tenure. Athletes reach new heights thanks to a number of factors, including innovation in the sportswear that they rely on for peak performance. <br /> <br /> Much like their athletes, ASICS is evaluating the tools they use to perform at their peak — but in IT. Many companies across industries are asking, “how can our global brand stay competitive in a crowded, ever-changing business landscape?” For ASICS, innovative IT is a major part of their regimen. From studying athletes' performance and predicting the needs of customers, to developing products in smarter ways, technology is now the driving force. As a global team, ASICS stays in sync around the world by using G Suite tools like video, instant messaging, collaborative documents and storage, which help ASICS’ employees create and innovate effortlessly. <br /> <br /> Together, ASICS and Google Cloud are partnering in IT innovation to help deliver exceptional sporting experiences to athletes around the world. To find out more about G Suite products, visit <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/">https://gsuite.google.com/together/</a>. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:ASICS stays on top of its IT game with Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='54' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/ASICS-stays-on-top-of-their-IT-game-with-Google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3024724833713192473' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Announcing Google Cloud Next ’17'> Announcing Google Cloud Next ’17 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, October 17, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Alison Wagonfeld, VP Marketing, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> Mark your calendars! <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Next ’17</a>, our marquee event for the Google Cloud community, will take place on March 8–10, 2017 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. <br /> <br /> Next ’17 is the destination for Google Cloud developers, partners, customers, and IT professionals to learn, get inspired and experience first-hand the tools, technologies and services that Google Cloud is building for the next-generation enterprise, including all of the products across Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps, Devices and Education. <br /> <br /> We’ll kick things off on March 8 with keynotes featuring the Google Cloud leadership team, new product announcements and demonstrations and perspectives from industry leaders. There’s so much great content in the works for this year’s event that we’re adding a third day to the agenda. Throughout these three days, we’ll be hosting more than 200 sessions, hands-on code labs, solutions workshops, machine learning activities, partner tracks, technical training and certification programs. <br /> <br /> Attendees will be able to connect with the entire Google Cloud team including our engineers, product leadership, developer advocates and more. We'll also have hundreds of partners involved throughout Next ‘17, bringing together the entire Google Cloud ecosystem.<br /> <br /> Sign up <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">here</a> and we’ll keep you posted when registration opens and other important updates become available. <br /> <br /> See you at Moscone in March!</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Alison Wagonfeld, VP Marketing, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> Mark your calendars! <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Next ’17</a>, our marquee event for the Google Cloud community, will take place on March 8–10, 2017 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. <br /> <br /> Next ’17 is the destination for Google Cloud developers, partners, customers, and IT professionals to learn, get inspired and experience first-hand the tools, technologies and services that Google Cloud is building for the next-generation enterprise, including all of the products across Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps, Devices and Education. <br /> <br /> We’ll kick things off on March 8 with keynotes featuring the Google Cloud leadership team, new product announcements and demonstrations and perspectives from industry leaders. There’s so much great content in the works for this year’s event that we’re adding a third day to the agenda. Throughout these three days, we’ll be hosting more than 200 sessions, hands-on code labs, solutions workshops, machine learning activities, partner tracks, technical training and certification programs. <br /> <br /> Attendees will be able to connect with the entire Google Cloud team including our engineers, product leadership, developer advocates and more. We'll also have hundreds of partners involved throughout Next ‘17, bringing together the entire Google Cloud ecosystem.<br /> <br /> Sign up <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">here</a> and we’ll keep you posted when registration opens and other important updates become available. <br /> <br /> See you at Moscone in March!</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Announcing Google Cloud Next ’17&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='21' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/10/announcing-google-cloud-next-17.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4971530069949643798' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title=' Introducing Google Cloud'> Introducing Google Cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 29, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Diane Greene, Senior Vice President, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> Today we’re announcing Google Cloud, Google’s unique and broad portfolio of products, technologies and services that let our customers operate easily in a digital world with the performance they demand.<br /> <br /> Google Cloud spans every layer of the business, including all of Google Cloud Platform; our user facing collaboration and productivity applications — now named G Suite; all of our machine learning tools and APIs; the enterprise Maps APIs; and also the Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks that access the cloud. All this, built for the cloud from the get-go.<br /> <br /> Moreover, Google Cloud has been engineered in an enterprise appropriate way, with integrated systems that ensure service levels — all components are integrated and meet customers’ service and cost levels. <br /> <br /> Google Cloud products are for customers of all sizes: from the self-employed or startups all the way to the world’s largest enterprises, including Google itself.<br /> <br /> Google Cloud is more than products — it is also how we work alongside companies in an engineering-centric way. Because digital transformation and moving to the cloud are technical processes, we have customer engineers, customer reliability engineers, site reliability engineers and product engineers supporting our customers as they migrate, deploy and evolve. Our approach and our commitment to Google Cloud customers is simple: we’re in it together.<br /> <br /> The cloud partner that customers choose really matters. It amounts to picking which technology curve to bet on, and it’s a long-term bet: there's more to be had than cost savings and increased security. Over the next five years, businesses of every kind will be transformed by smart data, analytics, machine learning and digital communications. What is going to differentiate business in the future is digital technology.<br /> <br /> Today we are also introducing a significant lineup of new <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html" target="_blank">cloud technologies</a> and <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html" target="_blank">machine intelligence capabilities</a> as well as services, and we're showcasing how a cross-section of our customers and partners — including, Airbus, Home Depot, Snap Inc (formerly SnapChat), Evernote, Niantic Labs (Pokemon Go), Telus, Accenture and Pivotal — use and work with Google Cloud.<br /> <br /> Finally, in addition to introducing Google Cloud, we’re also announcing <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/all-together-now-introducing-G-Suite.html" target="_blank">G Suite</a>, our new name for Google Apps for Work. G Suite is a set of intelligent apps — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts and more — designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration capability built in from the start.<br /> <br /> This is just the beginning. We look forward to building this future together.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Diane Greene, Senior Vice President, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> Today we’re announcing Google Cloud, Google’s unique and broad portfolio of products, technologies and services that let our customers operate easily in a digital world with the performance they demand.<br /> <br /> Google Cloud spans every layer of the business, including all of Google Cloud Platform; our user facing collaboration and productivity applications — now named G Suite; all of our machine learning tools and APIs; the enterprise Maps APIs; and also the Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks that access the cloud. All this, built for the cloud from the get-go.<br /> <br /> Moreover, Google Cloud has been engineered in an enterprise appropriate way, with integrated systems that ensure service levels — all components are integrated and meet customers’ service and cost levels. <br /> <br /> Google Cloud products are for customers of all sizes: from the self-employed or startups all the way to the world’s largest enterprises, including Google itself.<br /> <br /> Google Cloud is more than products — it is also how we work alongside companies in an engineering-centric way. Because digital transformation and moving to the cloud are technical processes, we have customer engineers, customer reliability engineers, site reliability engineers and product engineers supporting our customers as they migrate, deploy and evolve. Our approach and our commitment to Google Cloud customers is simple: we’re in it together.<br /> <br /> The cloud partner that customers choose really matters. It amounts to picking which technology curve to bet on, and it’s a long-term bet: there's more to be had than cost savings and increased security. Over the next five years, businesses of every kind will be transformed by smart data, analytics, machine learning and digital communications. What is going to differentiate business in the future is digital technology.<br /> <br /> Today we are also introducing a significant lineup of new <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html" target="_blank">cloud technologies</a> and <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html" target="_blank">machine intelligence capabilities</a> as well as services, and we're showcasing how a cross-section of our customers and partners — including, Airbus, Home Depot, Snap Inc (formerly SnapChat), Evernote, Niantic Labs (Pokemon Go), Telus, Accenture and Pivotal — use and work with Google Cloud.<br /> <br /> Finally, in addition to introducing Google Cloud, we’re also announcing <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/all-together-now-introducing-G-Suite.html" target="_blank">G Suite</a>, our new name for Google Apps for Work. G Suite is a set of intelligent apps — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts and more — designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration capability built in from the start.<br /> <br /> This is just the beginning. We look forward to building this future together.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog: Introducing Google Cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='332' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1806503632738695415' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/all-together-now-introducing-G-Suite.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='All together now. Introducing G Suite.'> All together now. Introducing G Suite. </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 29, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kelly Campbell, Senior Director of G Suite Marketing, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> All around the world, businesses are filling up with busyness. Employees today are more plugged-in than ever before, but technology too often gets in the way of turning ideas into game changers. For businesses, sharing and communicating has gotten complicated and often happens in silos. The bigger the company, the bigger the challenge. <br /> <br /> But what if technology lived up to its promise for us at work? What if it helped us cut through the noise so we could work together to focus on what matters? <br /> <br /> We created Google Apps for Work ten years ago (back when it was Google Apps for Your Domain) to do just that — to help people everywhere work and innovate together, so businesses can move faster and go bigger. <br /> <br /> <b>And today, we’re introducing a new name that better reflects this mission: <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/" target="_blank">G Suite</a>.</b><br /> <br /> G Suite is a set of intelligent apps—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more—designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start. And there’s<a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html" target="_blank"> a lot more on the way</a>. Because we believe that when organizations break down silos, connect people and empower them to work together, we get the speed, agility and impact needed to compete in today’s market.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> So in the spirit of teamwork, we partnered with some of our favorite illustrators from around the world to bring our ideas to life with their iconic creativity.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeFjEoSiylxBsRgVomMUpnPxWlV42mNYWNdevOpHP5Cod4Thx2JjItUhezQrG5qtxHovWfOf4J2B41irdB1pHtN_5b6-1oyRJjBBeatfFmO_uN5ki0shSL3Kbhf58WYx41SqlgZFtCc8/s1600/silos-re+%25282%2529.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeFjEoSiylxBsRgVomMUpnPxWlV42mNYWNdevOpHP5Cod4Thx2JjItUhezQrG5qtxHovWfOf4J2B41irdB1pHtN_5b6-1oyRJjBBeatfFmO_uN5ki0shSL3Kbhf58WYx41SqlgZFtCc8/s1600/silos-re+%25282%2529.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">                                     "All together now" by Matt Blease</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7AvLARvErMCmBjlw1YYH6KoZKP76Mc3jglYUYpMgvW2t7meZCkRvVP8STrG0FdwpzrsCiJxbj7eArGAgtOymARLvmrn2s2Si9Ah_3o_Gn4PNPhkxgNXM1Fv3a2k8ikUxyO3FgylDVM0/s1600/windows-re.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7AvLARvErMCmBjlw1YYH6KoZKP76Mc3jglYUYpMgvW2t7meZCkRvVP8STrG0FdwpzrsCiJxbj7eArGAgtOymARLvmrn2s2Si9Ah_3o_Gn4PNPhkxgNXM1Fv3a2k8ikUxyO3FgylDVM0/s1600/windows-re.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">                                        "Great ideas happen outside the office" by Josh Cochran</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAx9wTGv4xhvnmUtmD1UfJc51bSY5jHZUaA1nMh1DPdfbUJKLh9XTLKmmyl1LrZuXh8_c8ZL4XBtyxKHS9HRnBAWfTwj1xa1F2CVlmvvkgXxLm74qj3ALMUYI7SyDkdo0jNkvPunik6A/s1600/fist-bump-re.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAx9wTGv4xhvnmUtmD1UfJc51bSY5jHZUaA1nMh1DPdfbUJKLh9XTLKmmyl1LrZuXh8_c8ZL4XBtyxKHS9HRnBAWfTwj1xa1F2CVlmvvkgXxLm74qj3ALMUYI7SyDkdo0jNkvPunik6A/s1600/fist-bump-re.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">                          "Meet face to face in any place" by Jean Jullien</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <insert g="" mnemonic="" suite="" tbd=""> With G Suite, information can flow freely between devices, apps, people and teams, so great ideas never get left in the margins again. Imagine the future for your business, if this was how it could be . . .</insert><br /> <insert g="" mnemonic="" suite="" tbd=""> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EZmXEFGFeNA" width="640"></iframe> <br /> <i> Special thanks to artists Jean Jullien, Matt Blease, Chris DeLorenzo, Tomi Um, Jan Buchczik, Josh Cochran, Xarly Rodriguez.</i><br /> <br /> </insert></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var axel = Math.random() + ""; var a = axel * 10000000000000; document.write('<img src="https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/activity/src=2507573;type=enter133;cat=enter01d;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1;num=' + a + '?" width="1" height="1" alt=""/>'); </script><br /> <noscript><br /> <img alt="" height="1" src="https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/activity/src=2507573;type=enter133;cat=enter01d;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1;num=1?" width="1"/><br /> </noscript><br /> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kelly Campbell, Senior Director of G Suite Marketing, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> All around the world, businesses are filling up with busyness. Employees today are more plugged-in than ever before, but technology too often gets in the way of turning ideas into game changers. For businesses, sharing and communicating has gotten complicated and often happens in silos. The bigger the company, the bigger the challenge. <br /> <br /> But what if technology lived up to its promise for us at work? What if it helped us cut through the noise so we could work together to focus on what matters? <br /> <br /> We created Google Apps for Work ten years ago (back when it was Google Apps for Your Domain) to do just that — to help people everywhere work and innovate together, so businesses can move faster and go bigger. <br /> <br /> <b>And today, we’re introducing a new name that better reflects this mission: <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/together/" target="_blank">G Suite</a>.</b><br /> <br /> G Suite is a set of intelligent apps—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more—designed to bring people together, with real-time collaboration built in from the start. And there’s<a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html" target="_blank"> a lot more on the way</a>. Because we believe that when organizations break down silos, connect people and empower them to work together, we get the speed, agility and impact needed to compete in today’s market.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> So in the spirit of teamwork, we partnered with some of our favorite illustrators from around the world to bring our ideas to life with their iconic creativity.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeFjEoSiylxBsRgVomMUpnPxWlV42mNYWNdevOpHP5Cod4Thx2JjItUhezQrG5qtxHovWfOf4J2B41irdB1pHtN_5b6-1oyRJjBBeatfFmO_uN5ki0shSL3Kbhf58WYx41SqlgZFtCc8/s1600/silos-re+%25282%2529.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeFjEoSiylxBsRgVomMUpnPxWlV42mNYWNdevOpHP5Cod4Thx2JjItUhezQrG5qtxHovWfOf4J2B41irdB1pHtN_5b6-1oyRJjBBeatfFmO_uN5ki0shSL3Kbhf58WYx41SqlgZFtCc8/s1600/silos-re+%25282%2529.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">                                     "All together now" by Matt Blease</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7AvLARvErMCmBjlw1YYH6KoZKP76Mc3jglYUYpMgvW2t7meZCkRvVP8STrG0FdwpzrsCiJxbj7eArGAgtOymARLvmrn2s2Si9Ah_3o_Gn4PNPhkxgNXM1Fv3a2k8ikUxyO3FgylDVM0/s1600/windows-re.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7AvLARvErMCmBjlw1YYH6KoZKP76Mc3jglYUYpMgvW2t7meZCkRvVP8STrG0FdwpzrsCiJxbj7eArGAgtOymARLvmrn2s2Si9Ah_3o_Gn4PNPhkxgNXM1Fv3a2k8ikUxyO3FgylDVM0/s1600/windows-re.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">                                        "Great ideas happen outside the office" by Josh Cochran</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAx9wTGv4xhvnmUtmD1UfJc51bSY5jHZUaA1nMh1DPdfbUJKLh9XTLKmmyl1LrZuXh8_c8ZL4XBtyxKHS9HRnBAWfTwj1xa1F2CVlmvvkgXxLm74qj3ALMUYI7SyDkdo0jNkvPunik6A/s1600/fist-bump-re.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAx9wTGv4xhvnmUtmD1UfJc51bSY5jHZUaA1nMh1DPdfbUJKLh9XTLKmmyl1LrZuXh8_c8ZL4XBtyxKHS9HRnBAWfTwj1xa1F2CVlmvvkgXxLm74qj3ALMUYI7SyDkdo0jNkvPunik6A/s1600/fist-bump-re.gif" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">                          "Meet face to face in any place" by Jean Jullien</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <insert g="" mnemonic="" suite="" tbd=""> With G Suite, information can flow freely between devices, apps, people and teams, so great ideas never get left in the margins again. Imagine the future for your business, if this was how it could be . . .</insert><br /> <insert g="" mnemonic="" suite="" tbd=""> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EZmXEFGFeNA" width="640"></iframe> <br /> <i> Special thanks to artists Jean Jullien, Matt Blease, Chris DeLorenzo, Tomi Um, Jan Buchczik, Josh Cochran, Xarly Rodriguez.</i><br /> <br /> </insert></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var axel = Math.random() + ""; var a = axel * 10000000000000; document.write('<img src="https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/activity/src=2507573;type=enter133;cat=enter01d;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1;num=' + a + '?" width="1" height="1" alt=""/>'); </script><br /> <noscript><br /> <img alt="" height="1" src="https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/activity/src=2507573;type=enter133;cat=enter01d;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=1;num=1?" width="1"/><br /> </noscript><br /> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/all-together-now-introducing-G-Suite.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:All together now. 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Repetitive, mechanical tasks that take up our time are exactly the kinds of tasks that computers are great at, and advances in machine intelligence help make this a reality. Today we’re launching new capabilities across <a href="//g.co/alltogethernow" target="_blank">G Suite</a> to help employees reclaim their time and come together as teams on strategic and creative projects so they can better serve their customers.<br /> <br /> Google has been driving machine intelligence research for over a decade, and the same underlying work that <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-we-learned-in-seoul-with-alphago.html" target="_blank">beat the world Go champion</a> earlier this year is also powering more than one hundred product efforts, from <a href="https://translate.googleblog.com/2015/01/hallo-hola-ola-to-new-more-powerful_14.html" target="_blank">instant translation</a> to <a href="https://photos.google.com/" target="_blank">photo recognition</a>, across Google. A year ago, <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html" target="_blank">Smart Reply</a> launched, offering auto-generated replies for emails that only need a quick response. Now, more than 10% of all replies on mobile are sent using Smart Reply. The reception has been so strong that we're continuing to apply machine intelligence across our suite to solve customer problems.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter storage</h3> Second only to wrestling with their inboxes, searching for and gathering information is a top drain on employees’ time. In fact, up to a full day per week can be spent on this alone. <a href="https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-quick-access-in-drive.html" target="_blank">Quick Access</a> in Drive on Android will make the most relevant files to the work you’re doing easily accessible — right at your fingertips when you open Drive. Based on signals like your interaction with colleagues, recurring meetings and activity in Drive, machine intelligence helps Drive understand the rhythm of your workday and offers the files you need before you even ask. Our customer research shows that Quick Access saves about 50% of the time an employee would usually spend finding a file.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5U4aDmn5hap_e9tn5_JsnyEg2RD0mchiwtzrowuAVOxzqLjHdo8DWtHOg_Cqysh3_M_D1Ee-o5-kjZI4QuNleUDDhFIJugfy7ObBdQUIJRCUe1_ezunnz9yF2UpXuIbmHlc53oggagIQ/s1600/DQA-Final-Looping.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5U4aDmn5hap_e9tn5_JsnyEg2RD0mchiwtzrowuAVOxzqLjHdo8DWtHOg_Cqysh3_M_D1Ee-o5-kjZI4QuNleUDDhFIJugfy7ObBdQUIJRCUe1_ezunnz9yF2UpXuIbmHlc53oggagIQ/s1600/DQA-Final-Looping.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter scheduling</h3> Finding time to meet with colleagues can be hard, especially when the list of people and locations you’re coordinating starts to grow. Google Calendar uses machine intelligence to help you easily <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-smart-scheduling-in-Google-Calendar.html" target="_blank">find a time</a> when invitees are free, and it also suggests available rooms based on your previous bookings. And, when the list of invitees grows long and no times are available, Calendar will suggest times across the group where the conflicts are easiest to resolve, such as recurring 1:1 meetings.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0zCQKyC7qtxlRSH7kWsIyZVls7oXGWaeoJlM7-uXXqBwg45b8YQk5Gh0lqIapBGUOji3i6pyaCj8joAIocXqw2TjaG09PIOPkUBeGQjSP1zGP6JhJXMZBKwZ9p0CB9FjIOHaLfCCcV8/s1600/iOS-GIF_for+blog+and+social.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0zCQKyC7qtxlRSH7kWsIyZVls7oXGWaeoJlM7-uXXqBwg45b8YQk5Gh0lqIapBGUOji3i6pyaCj8joAIocXqw2TjaG09PIOPkUBeGQjSP1zGP6JhJXMZBKwZ9p0CB9FjIOHaLfCCcV8/s1600/iOS-GIF_for+blog+and+social.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter spreadsheets</h3> <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-season-new-ways-to-get-work-done-with-Google-Docs.html" target="_blank">A year ago</a> we launched <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Google Sheets</a> to help you summarize your spreadsheet data with automated charts and insights. But, many users might not experience the full value of spreadsheets because they can't write formulas. This is a case of the computer requiring you to speak its language. Machine intelligence turns this upside down, so now the computer understands your language. You can simply enter your question using natural language and Explore in Google Sheets will use Natural Language Processing to translate your question into a formula and offer an instant answer.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiKvzITpzm8Fb8_Hg7BDT5_fJorA3x4yoVRZq5t9dpg7jBD87L8hW2ZdHPFhr_EfS2Diusev1w2TjgMO4ldWMj6Ux9UtDh7LH-33m5iGayXNGbYbz65n6LS7xH0jw3ZLs-NZLEse5iVc/s1600/DE-Sheets-Final.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiKvzITpzm8Fb8_Hg7BDT5_fJorA3x4yoVRZq5t9dpg7jBD87L8hW2ZdHPFhr_EfS2Diusev1w2TjgMO4ldWMj6Ux9UtDh7LH-33m5iGayXNGbYbz65n6LS7xH0jw3ZLs-NZLEse5iVc/s1600/DE-Sheets-Final.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter documents</h3> In 2012, we launched a <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/find-facts-and-do-research-inside.html" target="_blank">research capability in Google Docs</a> that brought the power of Google’s search engine right into your document. Today, we’re adding Explore in Google Docs with machine intelligence to automatically recommend related topics to learn about, images to insert and more content to discover. You can even use <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Docs</a> to find a related document from Drive, so you spend less time switching between apps and more time polishing your ideas.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkJ_9IgA4KgNd1gcEJlCl0TfFpvaLNwtm8eNXHVQnt0lXSIZQTd788MHeQ4ftFCx9cuaAyJlheNBuqgdM9ZYDK8RT00ebZOi5Qz1qyVzTxyE1GaP09rChM0g5kq4tO5V9bbBymge8MyA/s1600/DE-Docs-Final-Social.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkJ_9IgA4KgNd1gcEJlCl0TfFpvaLNwtm8eNXHVQnt0lXSIZQTd788MHeQ4ftFCx9cuaAyJlheNBuqgdM9ZYDK8RT00ebZOi5Qz1qyVzTxyE1GaP09rChM0g5kq4tO5V9bbBymge8MyA/s1600/DE-Docs-Final-Social.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter presentations</h3> Turning your inspiration into a presentation can be a lot of work. Often, employees spend more time formatting slides than thinking creatively about the story they want to tell. Now, as you add content to your presentation, <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Google Slides</a> dynamically offers layout suggestions that help your content shine. We’ve seen that people save over 30% of the time they would have spent on formatting when they used this capability. In just a couple of clicks, you’ll have slides so polished people will think you're a professional graphic designer.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb9AZkmR6-yXqordXDV0eVMYARbd3OwGW9n0dH3Sz7gM8j9dlyAM0HlajN99ShXYWQ82nhp1OiHBXJEBSXA6OqpZdV2mAwe5ZvgC7TTk1pDwjBjUkiB8A6_rV5zP-4T-JIaMO9Yv2VVk/s1600/DE-Slides-v10-.forblogtest.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb9AZkmR6-yXqordXDV0eVMYARbd3OwGW9n0dH3Sz7gM8j9dlyAM0HlajN99ShXYWQ82nhp1OiHBXJEBSXA6OqpZdV2mAwe5ZvgC7TTk1pDwjBjUkiB8A6_rV5zP-4T-JIaMO9Yv2VVk/s1600/DE-Slides-v10-.forblogtest.gif" /></a></div> The best thing about these intelligent features is that they'll continue to learn and improve over time the more they're used, and save you even more time tomorrow than they save you today. You can apply this time to strategic planning, creative thinking and collaborative work with your team.<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <br /></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Drive for teams</h3> When Google Drive <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-newest-member.html" target="_blank">launched in 2012</a>, bringing all of your work to all of your devices was a key focus. Today, with Drive installed on more than one billion smartphones, mobility is a given. As businesses have adopted Google Drive, a new focus has emerged: teams. Teams move fast, they grow, they shrink, they’re rebuilt. In order to keep pace, a new capability called Team Drives redefines the model, shifting from a focus on the individual user to a focus on the team. Content ownership and sharing are managed at the team level, and new roles give more granular control over team content. Team Drives help streamline teamwork from end-to-end, from onboarding a new team member (add her to the team and she instantly has access to all of the work in one place) to offboarding a departing team member (remove him from the team and all of his work stays right in place), and everything in-between. We’ve been previewing Team Drives with a small set of customers, and we’re excited to begin to extend this capability to more customers through an <a href="//goo.gl/8Z7oo1" target="_blank">Early Adopter Program</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a5bPzb64i8yWZmib1BdudtdB9GaOmPbkK7es9IFc9sDxd2lUiMFjfeEofg3YRKG1zFCoCKt7mD9yVNuk9g57xIAqV-bQyvPxT5XN98QQn7XacQnlzQQbnvTh6uDrHHWeHCcRiCEOav4/s1600/g-suite-product-launch-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a5bPzb64i8yWZmib1BdudtdB9GaOmPbkK7es9IFc9sDxd2lUiMFjfeEofg3YRKG1zFCoCKt7mD9yVNuk9g57xIAqV-bQyvPxT5XN98QQn7XacQnlzQQbnvTh6uDrHHWeHCcRiCEOav4/s1600/g-suite-product-launch-2.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(click to enlarge)</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Meetings for teams</h3> Teams extend beyond office walls — spanning countries and companies — and video meetings have become critical to bringing teams together. No matter where you’re sitting or even when you’re on the go, you expect to be plugged in so you never have to worry about missing a thing. A new meeting experience for Google Hangouts makes this exceedingly easy: no downloads, no browser plugins, invite anyone, join from any device, even without an account or a data connection. Every meeting generates a short link and dial-in phone number so you can invite anyone without friction. An updated user interface accommodates up to 50 video participants, and with seamless integration into Calendar and instant screen sharing, your team will be better connected than it ever was before. Like Team Drives, we’ve been previewing this new meeting experience with a small set of customers, and we'll be extending this to more customers with an <a href="//goo.gl/8Z7oo1" target="_blank">Early Adopter Program</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtyHKK2tfksefNpJ-cYBkCxGm85zSvC7eC5p3EUhJ5oehn2mlncML-qVYZsdLxPJM-9igTflb8dbShIJnr2G9Wznsw0OVA2Ya8szn7Do9MiRBHq-aHb7cchDzRRPWpZlHRR5Eqccm6dk/s1600/gsuite-product-launch-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtyHKK2tfksefNpJ-cYBkCxGm85zSvC7eC5p3EUhJ5oehn2mlncML-qVYZsdLxPJM-9igTflb8dbShIJnr2G9Wznsw0OVA2Ya8szn7Do9MiRBHq-aHb7cchDzRRPWpZlHRR5Eqccm6dk/s640/gsuite-product-launch-3.png" width="358" /></a></div> From the beginning our suite was built on the idea that when people can work together easily from anywhere, they accomplish more. Machine intelligence has been <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2007/07/thanks-for-all-spam-reports.html" target="_blank">improving the user experience in our apps for a decade</a>, and the pace is accelerating. These updates to G Suite help employees take back the time they spend on repetitive tasks and help teams break down silos and connect even when they can’t be in the same place. With our focus on machine intelligence and our commitment to transforming the workplace, there’s much more to come.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President Apps, Google Cloud<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Research shows that each week we spend the equivalent of three work days on common tasks like emailing, scheduling and attending meetings and gathering information, and only two work days on the role we were hired for. Repetitive, mechanical tasks that take up our time are exactly the kinds of tasks that computers are great at, and advances in machine intelligence help make this a reality. Today we’re launching new capabilities across <a href="//g.co/alltogethernow" target="_blank">G Suite</a> to help employees reclaim their time and come together as teams on strategic and creative projects so they can better serve their customers.<br /> <br /> Google has been driving machine intelligence research for over a decade, and the same underlying work that <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-we-learned-in-seoul-with-alphago.html" target="_blank">beat the world Go champion</a> earlier this year is also powering more than one hundred product efforts, from <a href="https://translate.googleblog.com/2015/01/hallo-hola-ola-to-new-more-powerful_14.html" target="_blank">instant translation</a> to <a href="https://photos.google.com/" target="_blank">photo recognition</a>, across Google. A year ago, <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html" target="_blank">Smart Reply</a> launched, offering auto-generated replies for emails that only need a quick response. Now, more than 10% of all replies on mobile are sent using Smart Reply. The reception has been so strong that we're continuing to apply machine intelligence across our suite to solve customer problems.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter storage</h3> Second only to wrestling with their inboxes, searching for and gathering information is a top drain on employees’ time. In fact, up to a full day per week can be spent on this alone. <a href="https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-quick-access-in-drive.html" target="_blank">Quick Access</a> in Drive on Android will make the most relevant files to the work you’re doing easily accessible — right at your fingertips when you open Drive. Based on signals like your interaction with colleagues, recurring meetings and activity in Drive, machine intelligence helps Drive understand the rhythm of your workday and offers the files you need before you even ask. Our customer research shows that Quick Access saves about 50% of the time an employee would usually spend finding a file.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5U4aDmn5hap_e9tn5_JsnyEg2RD0mchiwtzrowuAVOxzqLjHdo8DWtHOg_Cqysh3_M_D1Ee-o5-kjZI4QuNleUDDhFIJugfy7ObBdQUIJRCUe1_ezunnz9yF2UpXuIbmHlc53oggagIQ/s1600/DQA-Final-Looping.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5U4aDmn5hap_e9tn5_JsnyEg2RD0mchiwtzrowuAVOxzqLjHdo8DWtHOg_Cqysh3_M_D1Ee-o5-kjZI4QuNleUDDhFIJugfy7ObBdQUIJRCUe1_ezunnz9yF2UpXuIbmHlc53oggagIQ/s1600/DQA-Final-Looping.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter scheduling</h3> Finding time to meet with colleagues can be hard, especially when the list of people and locations you’re coordinating starts to grow. Google Calendar uses machine intelligence to help you easily <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/09/save-time-with-smart-scheduling-in-Google-Calendar.html" target="_blank">find a time</a> when invitees are free, and it also suggests available rooms based on your previous bookings. And, when the list of invitees grows long and no times are available, Calendar will suggest times across the group where the conflicts are easiest to resolve, such as recurring 1:1 meetings.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0zCQKyC7qtxlRSH7kWsIyZVls7oXGWaeoJlM7-uXXqBwg45b8YQk5Gh0lqIapBGUOji3i6pyaCj8joAIocXqw2TjaG09PIOPkUBeGQjSP1zGP6JhJXMZBKwZ9p0CB9FjIOHaLfCCcV8/s1600/iOS-GIF_for+blog+and+social.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0zCQKyC7qtxlRSH7kWsIyZVls7oXGWaeoJlM7-uXXqBwg45b8YQk5Gh0lqIapBGUOji3i6pyaCj8joAIocXqw2TjaG09PIOPkUBeGQjSP1zGP6JhJXMZBKwZ9p0CB9FjIOHaLfCCcV8/s1600/iOS-GIF_for+blog+and+social.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter spreadsheets</h3> <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-season-new-ways-to-get-work-done-with-Google-Docs.html" target="_blank">A year ago</a> we launched <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Google Sheets</a> to help you summarize your spreadsheet data with automated charts and insights. But, many users might not experience the full value of spreadsheets because they can't write formulas. This is a case of the computer requiring you to speak its language. Machine intelligence turns this upside down, so now the computer understands your language. You can simply enter your question using natural language and Explore in Google Sheets will use Natural Language Processing to translate your question into a formula and offer an instant answer.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiKvzITpzm8Fb8_Hg7BDT5_fJorA3x4yoVRZq5t9dpg7jBD87L8hW2ZdHPFhr_EfS2Diusev1w2TjgMO4ldWMj6Ux9UtDh7LH-33m5iGayXNGbYbz65n6LS7xH0jw3ZLs-NZLEse5iVc/s1600/DE-Sheets-Final.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiKvzITpzm8Fb8_Hg7BDT5_fJorA3x4yoVRZq5t9dpg7jBD87L8hW2ZdHPFhr_EfS2Diusev1w2TjgMO4ldWMj6Ux9UtDh7LH-33m5iGayXNGbYbz65n6LS7xH0jw3ZLs-NZLEse5iVc/s1600/DE-Sheets-Final.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter documents</h3> In 2012, we launched a <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/find-facts-and-do-research-inside.html" target="_blank">research capability in Google Docs</a> that brought the power of Google’s search engine right into your document. Today, we’re adding Explore in Google Docs with machine intelligence to automatically recommend related topics to learn about, images to insert and more content to discover. You can even use <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Docs</a> to find a related document from Drive, so you spend less time switching between apps and more time polishing your ideas.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkJ_9IgA4KgNd1gcEJlCl0TfFpvaLNwtm8eNXHVQnt0lXSIZQTd788MHeQ4ftFCx9cuaAyJlheNBuqgdM9ZYDK8RT00ebZOi5Qz1qyVzTxyE1GaP09rChM0g5kq4tO5V9bbBymge8MyA/s1600/DE-Docs-Final-Social.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkJ_9IgA4KgNd1gcEJlCl0TfFpvaLNwtm8eNXHVQnt0lXSIZQTd788MHeQ4ftFCx9cuaAyJlheNBuqgdM9ZYDK8RT00ebZOi5Qz1qyVzTxyE1GaP09rChM0g5kq4tO5V9bbBymge8MyA/s1600/DE-Docs-Final-Social.gif" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Smarter presentations</h3> Turning your inspiration into a presentation can be a lot of work. Often, employees spend more time formatting slides than thinking creatively about the story they want to tell. Now, as you add content to your presentation, <a href="//goo.gl/GmDAPp" target="_blank">Explore in Google Slides</a> dynamically offers layout suggestions that help your content shine. We’ve seen that people save over 30% of the time they would have spent on formatting when they used this capability. In just a couple of clicks, you’ll have slides so polished people will think you're a professional graphic designer.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb9AZkmR6-yXqordXDV0eVMYARbd3OwGW9n0dH3Sz7gM8j9dlyAM0HlajN99ShXYWQ82nhp1OiHBXJEBSXA6OqpZdV2mAwe5ZvgC7TTk1pDwjBjUkiB8A6_rV5zP-4T-JIaMO9Yv2VVk/s1600/DE-Slides-v10-.forblogtest.gif" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb9AZkmR6-yXqordXDV0eVMYARbd3OwGW9n0dH3Sz7gM8j9dlyAM0HlajN99ShXYWQ82nhp1OiHBXJEBSXA6OqpZdV2mAwe5ZvgC7TTk1pDwjBjUkiB8A6_rV5zP-4T-JIaMO9Yv2VVk/s1600/DE-Slides-v10-.forblogtest.gif" /></a></div> The best thing about these intelligent features is that they'll continue to learn and improve over time the more they're used, and save you even more time tomorrow than they save you today. You can apply this time to strategic planning, creative thinking and collaborative work with your team.<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <br /></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Drive for teams</h3> When Google Drive <a href="https://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-newest-member.html" target="_blank">launched in 2012</a>, bringing all of your work to all of your devices was a key focus. Today, with Drive installed on more than one billion smartphones, mobility is a given. As businesses have adopted Google Drive, a new focus has emerged: teams. Teams move fast, they grow, they shrink, they’re rebuilt. In order to keep pace, a new capability called Team Drives redefines the model, shifting from a focus on the individual user to a focus on the team. Content ownership and sharing are managed at the team level, and new roles give more granular control over team content. Team Drives help streamline teamwork from end-to-end, from onboarding a new team member (add her to the team and she instantly has access to all of the work in one place) to offboarding a departing team member (remove him from the team and all of his work stays right in place), and everything in-between. We’ve been previewing Team Drives with a small set of customers, and we’re excited to begin to extend this capability to more customers through an <a href="//goo.gl/8Z7oo1" target="_blank">Early Adopter Program</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a5bPzb64i8yWZmib1BdudtdB9GaOmPbkK7es9IFc9sDxd2lUiMFjfeEofg3YRKG1zFCoCKt7mD9yVNuk9g57xIAqV-bQyvPxT5XN98QQn7XacQnlzQQbnvTh6uDrHHWeHCcRiCEOav4/s1600/g-suite-product-launch-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6a5bPzb64i8yWZmib1BdudtdB9GaOmPbkK7es9IFc9sDxd2lUiMFjfeEofg3YRKG1zFCoCKt7mD9yVNuk9g57xIAqV-bQyvPxT5XN98QQn7XacQnlzQQbnvTh6uDrHHWeHCcRiCEOav4/s1600/g-suite-product-launch-2.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(click to enlarge)</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Meetings for teams</h3> Teams extend beyond office walls — spanning countries and companies — and video meetings have become critical to bringing teams together. No matter where you’re sitting or even when you’re on the go, you expect to be plugged in so you never have to worry about missing a thing. A new meeting experience for Google Hangouts makes this exceedingly easy: no downloads, no browser plugins, invite anyone, join from any device, even without an account or a data connection. Every meeting generates a short link and dial-in phone number so you can invite anyone without friction. An updated user interface accommodates up to 50 video participants, and with seamless integration into Calendar and instant screen sharing, your team will be better connected than it ever was before. Like Team Drives, we’ve been previewing this new meeting experience with a small set of customers, and we'll be extending this to more customers with an <a href="//goo.gl/8Z7oo1" target="_blank">Early Adopter Program</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtyHKK2tfksefNpJ-cYBkCxGm85zSvC7eC5p3EUhJ5oehn2mlncML-qVYZsdLxPJM-9igTflb8dbShIJnr2G9Wznsw0OVA2Ya8szn7Do9MiRBHq-aHb7cchDzRRPWpZlHRR5Eqccm6dk/s1600/gsuite-product-launch-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtyHKK2tfksefNpJ-cYBkCxGm85zSvC7eC5p3EUhJ5oehn2mlncML-qVYZsdLxPJM-9igTflb8dbShIJnr2G9Wznsw0OVA2Ya8szn7Do9MiRBHq-aHb7cchDzRRPWpZlHRR5Eqccm6dk/s640/gsuite-product-launch-3.png" width="358" /></a></div> From the beginning our suite was built on the idea that when people can work together easily from anywhere, they accomplish more. Machine intelligence has been <a href="https://gmail.googleblog.com/2007/07/thanks-for-all-spam-reports.html" target="_blank">improving the user experience in our apps for a decade</a>, and the pace is accelerating. These updates to G Suite help employees take back the time they spend on repetitive tasks and help teams break down silos and connect even when they can’t be in the same place. With our focus on machine intelligence and our commitment to transforming the workplace, there’s much more to come.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:G Suite: intelligent tools designed for teams&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='803' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/intelligent-tools-built-for-teams.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5030194860304454183' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Google and Accenture: building for the enterprise'> Google and Accenture: building for the enterprise </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 29, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Caliah Manson, Head of Global Strategic Alliances, Google<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Today, Accenture and Google announced a new alliance to develop solutions that bring together cloud, mobility and collaboration for enterprises that will help clients embrace the digital transformations technology can enable.<br /> <br /> Most importantly, this collaboration is based on the real needs of businesses across markets. Enterprise customers are looking to Accenture for their deep understanding of specific industry needs and to Google for our technical strengths in machine learning, analytics, mobile technology, augmented reality, IoT and big data.<br /> <br /> Google and Accenture will work together to deliver solutions to customers in a number of industry-specific verticals, including retail, healthcare, energy, finance and others. The solutions will combine technology from across Google’s products and platforms. Accenture and Google will provide dedicated resources from each company with expertise in cloud solutions architecture, mobility and app development to help bring these solutions to large enterprise clients.<br /> <br /> Our collaborative efforts with Accenture open up a new world for enterprises looking to cloud and mobile solutions to change the way they do business. We're excited about the possibilities of what we can create together. <br /> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Caliah Manson, Head of Global Strategic Alliances, Google<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Today, Accenture and Google announced a new alliance to develop solutions that bring together cloud, mobility and collaboration for enterprises that will help clients embrace the digital transformations technology can enable.<br /> <br /> Most importantly, this collaboration is based on the real needs of businesses across markets. Enterprise customers are looking to Accenture for their deep understanding of specific industry needs and to Google for our technical strengths in machine learning, analytics, mobile technology, augmented reality, IoT and big data.<br /> <br /> Google and Accenture will work together to deliver solutions to customers in a number of industry-specific verticals, including retail, healthcare, energy, finance and others. The solutions will combine technology from across Google’s products and platforms. Accenture and Google will provide dedicated resources from each company with expertise in cloud solutions architecture, mobility and app development to help bring these solutions to large enterprise clients.<br /> <br /> Our collaborative efforts with Accenture open up a new world for enterprises looking to cloud and mobile solutions to change the way they do business. We're excited about the possibilities of what we can create together. <br /> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google and Accenture: building for the enterprise&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='56' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/google-and-accenture-building-for-the-enterprise.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5600753852057098459' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Google Cloud Platform sets a course for new horizons'> Google Cloud Platform sets a course for new horizons </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 29, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Brian Stevens, Vice President, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Google Cloud Platform <a href="http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>.)</i> <br /> <br /> As we officially move into the <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html" target="_blank">Google Cloud era</a>, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to bring new capabilities to more regions, environments, applications and users than ever before. Our goal remains the same: we want to build the most open cloud for all businesses and make it easy for them to build and run great software. <br /> <br /> Today, we’re announcing new products and services to deliver significant value to our customers. We’re also sharing updates to our infrastructure to improve our ability to not only power Google’s own billion-user products, such as Gmail and Android, but also to power businesses around the world. <br /> <br /> <h3> Delivering Google Cloud Regions for all</h3> We’ve recently joined the ranks of Google’s billion-user products. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Platform</a> now serves over one billion end-users through its customers’ products and services.<br /> <br /> To meet this growing demand, we’ve reached an exciting turning point in our geographic expansion efforts. Today, we announced the locations of eight new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Regions</a> <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland and Frankfurt <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> and there are more regions to be announced next year.<br /> <br /> By expanding to new regions, we deliver higher performance to customers. In fact, our <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/the-latest-for-Cloud-customers-machine-learning-and-west-coast-expansion.html" target="_blank">recent expansion in Oregon</a> resulted in up to 80% improvement in latency for customers. We look forward to welcoming customers to our new Cloud Regions as they become publicly available throughout 2017.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl36pk_HlfgHoLhZrG_acivhXDg74eYqEkHwMcj0bYdxXkHFy-PENsnBvtMXRTHlLXkgiAt2G-cgMtGHeMNFzaBzKu_KCastLf40VB2PnKXO7YJgvd9BVFk1SIJ61Cztzcd5qH2M3UmLA/s1600/google-cloud-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl36pk_HlfgHoLhZrG_acivhXDg74eYqEkHwMcj0bYdxXkHFy-PENsnBvtMXRTHlLXkgiAt2G-cgMtGHeMNFzaBzKu_KCastLf40VB2PnKXO7YJgvd9BVFk1SIJ61Cztzcd5qH2M3UmLA/s640/google-cloud-network.png" width="640" /></a></div> <h3> Embracing the multi-cloud world</h3> Not only do applications running on GCP benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure, but they also run on the latest and greatest compute platforms. <a href="http://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank">Kubernetes</a>, the open source container management system that we developed and open-sourced, <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/kubernetes-1.4-making-it-easy-to-run-on-kuberentes-anywhere.html" target="_blank">reached version 1.4 earlier this week</a>, and we’re actively updating Google Container Engine (GKE) to this new version. <br /> <br /> GKE customers will be the first to benefit from the latest Kubernetes features, including the ability to monitor cluster add-ons, one-click cluster spin-up, improved security, integration with Cluster Federation and support for the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/" target="_blank">Google Container-VM image (GCI)</a>. <br /> <br /> Kubernetes 1.4 improves Cluster Federation to support straightforward deployment across multiple clusters and multiple clouds. In our support of this feature, GKE customers will be able to build applications that can easily span multiple clouds, whether they are on-prem, on a different public cloud vendor, or a hybrid of both. <br /> <br /> We want GCP to be the best place to run your workloads, and Kubernetes is helping customers make the transition. That’s why customers such as <a href="https://cloud.google.com/customers/philips/" target="_blank">Philips Lighting</a> have migrated their most critical workloads to run on GKE.<br /> <br /> <h3> Accelerating the move to cloud data warehousing and machine learning</h3> Cloud infrastructure exists in the service of applications and data. Data analytics is critical to businesses, and the need to store and analyze data from a growing number of data sources has grown exponentially. Data analytics is also at the foundation for the next wave in business intelligence <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> machine learning.<br /> <br /> The same principles of data analytics and machine learning apply to large-scale businesses: to derive business intelligence from your data, you need access to multiple data sources and the ability to seamlessly process it. That’s why GKE usage doubles every 90 days and is a natural fit for many businesses. Now, we’re introducing new updates to our data analytics and machine learning portfolio that help address this need:<br /> <ul> <li><b><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/bigquery-introducing-powerful-new-enterprise-data-warehousing-features" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a></b>, our fully managed data warehouse, has been significantly upgraded to enable widespread adoption of cloud data analytics. BigQuery support for <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/" target="_blank">Standard SQL</a> is now generally available, and we’ve added new features that improve compatibility with more data tools than ever and foster deeper collaboration across your organization with simplified query sharing. We also integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) that allows businesses to fine-tune their security policies. And to make it accessible for any business to use BigQuery, we now offer unlimited flat-rate pricing that pairs unlimited queries with predictable data storage costs.</li> <li><b><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/google-cloud-machine-learning-now-open-to-all-with-new-professional-services-and-education-programs" target="_blank">Cloud Machine Learning</a></b> is now available to all businesses. Integrated with our data analytics and storage cloud services such as <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Dataflow</a>, and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Storage</a>, it helps enable businesses to easily train quality machine learning models on their own data at a faster rate. “Seeing is believing” with machine learning, so we're rolling out dedicated educational and certification programs to help more customers learn about the benefits of machine learning for their organization and give them the tools to put it into use.</li> </ul> <br /> To learn more about how to manage data across all of GCP, check out our new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/data-lifecycle-cloud-platform" target="_blank">Data Lifecycle on GCP paper</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3> Introducing a new engagement model for customer support </h3> At Google, we understand that the overall reliability and operational health of a customer’s application is a shared responsibility. Today, we’re announcing a new role on the GCP team: Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE). Designed to deepen our partnership with customers, CRE is comprised of Google engineers who integrate with a customer’s operations teams to share the reliability responsibilities for critical cloud applications. This integration represents a new model in which we share and apply our nearly two decades of expertise in cloud computing as an embedded part of a customer's organization. We’ll have more to share about this soon.<br /> <br /> One of the CRE model’s first tests was joining <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html" target="_blank">Niantic as they launched Pokémon GO</a>, scaling to serve millions of users around the world in a span of a few days.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmd_QiYAlg4qQbLyNd3hAPmDUW6mgS47kCZVXAz_62KAMClB5_cYncGGrj4L5b7icQgqXYgL-B8iYqRro3R21vTVtbMk02DGYwBa2n9RzFbr92SUVBuVHr5J3JWy2Tap5ZnX1BM1WWLg3/s1600/google-cloud-cre.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmd_QiYAlg4qQbLyNd3hAPmDUW6mgS47kCZVXAz_62KAMClB5_cYncGGrj4L5b7icQgqXYgL-B8iYqRro3R21vTVtbMk02DGYwBa2n9RzFbr92SUVBuVHr5J3JWy2Tap5ZnX1BM1WWLg3/s640/google-cloud-cre.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Google Cloud GKE/Kubernetes team that supports many of our customers like Niantic</td></tr> </tbody></table> The public cloud is built on customer trust, and we understand that it’s a significant commitment for a customer to entrust a public cloud vendor with their physical infrastructure. By offering new features to help address customer needs and collaborating with them to usher in the future with tools like machine learning, we intend to accelerate the usability of the public cloud and bring more businesses into the Google Cloud fold. Thanks for joining us as we embark toward this new horizon.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Brian Stevens, Vice President, Google Cloud</span> <br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Google Cloud Platform <a href="http://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>.)</i> <br /> <br /> As we officially move into the <a href="https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html" target="_blank">Google Cloud era</a>, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to bring new capabilities to more regions, environments, applications and users than ever before. Our goal remains the same: we want to build the most open cloud for all businesses and make it easy for them to build and run great software. <br /> <br /> Today, we’re announcing new products and services to deliver significant value to our customers. We’re also sharing updates to our infrastructure to improve our ability to not only power Google’s own billion-user products, such as Gmail and Android, but also to power businesses around the world. <br /> <br /> <h3> Delivering Google Cloud Regions for all</h3> We’ve recently joined the ranks of Google’s billion-user products. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Platform</a> now serves over one billion end-users through its customers’ products and services.<br /> <br /> To meet this growing demand, we’ve reached an exciting turning point in our geographic expansion efforts. Today, we announced the locations of eight new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Regions</a> <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland and Frankfurt <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> and there are more regions to be announced next year.<br /> <br /> By expanding to new regions, we deliver higher performance to customers. In fact, our <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/the-latest-for-Cloud-customers-machine-learning-and-west-coast-expansion.html" target="_blank">recent expansion in Oregon</a> resulted in up to 80% improvement in latency for customers. We look forward to welcoming customers to our new Cloud Regions as they become publicly available throughout 2017.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl36pk_HlfgHoLhZrG_acivhXDg74eYqEkHwMcj0bYdxXkHFy-PENsnBvtMXRTHlLXkgiAt2G-cgMtGHeMNFzaBzKu_KCastLf40VB2PnKXO7YJgvd9BVFk1SIJ61Cztzcd5qH2M3UmLA/s1600/google-cloud-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl36pk_HlfgHoLhZrG_acivhXDg74eYqEkHwMcj0bYdxXkHFy-PENsnBvtMXRTHlLXkgiAt2G-cgMtGHeMNFzaBzKu_KCastLf40VB2PnKXO7YJgvd9BVFk1SIJ61Cztzcd5qH2M3UmLA/s640/google-cloud-network.png" width="640" /></a></div> <h3> Embracing the multi-cloud world</h3> Not only do applications running on GCP benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure, but they also run on the latest and greatest compute platforms. <a href="http://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank">Kubernetes</a>, the open source container management system that we developed and open-sourced, <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/kubernetes-1.4-making-it-easy-to-run-on-kuberentes-anywhere.html" target="_blank">reached version 1.4 earlier this week</a>, and we’re actively updating Google Container Engine (GKE) to this new version. <br /> <br /> GKE customers will be the first to benefit from the latest Kubernetes features, including the ability to monitor cluster add-ons, one-click cluster spin-up, improved security, integration with Cluster Federation and support for the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/" target="_blank">Google Container-VM image (GCI)</a>. <br /> <br /> Kubernetes 1.4 improves Cluster Federation to support straightforward deployment across multiple clusters and multiple clouds. In our support of this feature, GKE customers will be able to build applications that can easily span multiple clouds, whether they are on-prem, on a different public cloud vendor, or a hybrid of both. <br /> <br /> We want GCP to be the best place to run your workloads, and Kubernetes is helping customers make the transition. That’s why customers such as <a href="https://cloud.google.com/customers/philips/" target="_blank">Philips Lighting</a> have migrated their most critical workloads to run on GKE.<br /> <br /> <h3> Accelerating the move to cloud data warehousing and machine learning</h3> Cloud infrastructure exists in the service of applications and data. Data analytics is critical to businesses, and the need to store and analyze data from a growing number of data sources has grown exponentially. Data analytics is also at the foundation for the next wave in business intelligence <span style="font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span> machine learning.<br /> <br /> The same principles of data analytics and machine learning apply to large-scale businesses: to derive business intelligence from your data, you need access to multiple data sources and the ability to seamlessly process it. That’s why GKE usage doubles every 90 days and is a natural fit for many businesses. Now, we’re introducing new updates to our data analytics and machine learning portfolio that help address this need:<br /> <ul> <li><b><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/bigquery-introducing-powerful-new-enterprise-data-warehousing-features" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a></b>, our fully managed data warehouse, has been significantly upgraded to enable widespread adoption of cloud data analytics. BigQuery support for <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/" target="_blank">Standard SQL</a> is now generally available, and we’ve added new features that improve compatibility with more data tools than ever and foster deeper collaboration across your organization with simplified query sharing. We also integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) that allows businesses to fine-tune their security policies. And to make it accessible for any business to use BigQuery, we now offer unlimited flat-rate pricing that pairs unlimited queries with predictable data storage costs.</li> <li><b><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/google-cloud-machine-learning-now-open-to-all-with-new-professional-services-and-education-programs" target="_blank">Cloud Machine Learning</a></b> is now available to all businesses. Integrated with our data analytics and storage cloud services such as <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/" target="_blank">Google BigQuery</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Dataflow</a>, and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/" target="_blank">Google Cloud Storage</a>, it helps enable businesses to easily train quality machine learning models on their own data at a faster rate. “Seeing is believing” with machine learning, so we're rolling out dedicated educational and certification programs to help more customers learn about the benefits of machine learning for their organization and give them the tools to put it into use.</li> </ul> <br /> To learn more about how to manage data across all of GCP, check out our new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/data-lifecycle-cloud-platform" target="_blank">Data Lifecycle on GCP paper</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3> Introducing a new engagement model for customer support </h3> At Google, we understand that the overall reliability and operational health of a customer’s application is a shared responsibility. Today, we’re announcing a new role on the GCP team: Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE). Designed to deepen our partnership with customers, CRE is comprised of Google engineers who integrate with a customer’s operations teams to share the reliability responsibilities for critical cloud applications. This integration represents a new model in which we share and apply our nearly two decades of expertise in cloud computing as an embedded part of a customer's organization. We’ll have more to share about this soon.<br /> <br /> One of the CRE model’s first tests was joining <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html" target="_blank">Niantic as they launched Pokémon GO</a>, scaling to serve millions of users around the world in a span of a few days.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmd_QiYAlg4qQbLyNd3hAPmDUW6mgS47kCZVXAz_62KAMClB5_cYncGGrj4L5b7icQgqXYgL-B8iYqRro3R21vTVtbMk02DGYwBa2n9RzFbr92SUVBuVHr5J3JWy2Tap5ZnX1BM1WWLg3/s1600/google-cloud-cre.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmd_QiYAlg4qQbLyNd3hAPmDUW6mgS47kCZVXAz_62KAMClB5_cYncGGrj4L5b7icQgqXYgL-B8iYqRro3R21vTVtbMk02DGYwBa2n9RzFbr92SUVBuVHr5J3JWy2Tap5ZnX1BM1WWLg3/s640/google-cloud-cre.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Google Cloud GKE/Kubernetes team that supports many of our customers like Niantic</td></tr> </tbody></table> The public cloud is built on customer trust, and we understand that it’s a significant commitment for a customer to entrust a public cloud vendor with their physical infrastructure. By offering new features to help address customer needs and collaborating with them to usher in the future with tools like machine learning, we intend to accelerate the usability of the public cloud and bring more businesses into the Google Cloud fold. 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If you’re still deciding whether Chrome device management is the best option for your business, you can also visit the Admin console to start a 60-day free trial of Chrome device management on up to 10 devices.<sup>1</sup><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsn-SY5C4JgYAqxzjQ7sOQVjweDMDO8r1INiMTirCNUXnBgZFoBp7kTXP_4uvjzq8KSnBze6Fvy8_NO60rfsFAk0q655Sz0tvnNB9OPAr-FxOZTFh9WRLQepH2t7eePoqNpnqbaFnYuY/s1600/device-management-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsn-SY5C4JgYAqxzjQ7sOQVjweDMDO8r1INiMTirCNUXnBgZFoBp7kTXP_4uvjzq8KSnBze6Fvy8_NO60rfsFAk0q655Sz0tvnNB9OPAr-FxOZTFh9WRLQepH2t7eePoqNpnqbaFnYuY/s640/device-management-1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(click to enlarge)</td></tr> </tbody></table> With <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/chrome-device-management/" target="_blank">Chrome device management</a>, you can manage and configure <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/2657289?hl=en&ref_topic=2935995" target="_blank">more than 200 features, policies and settings</a> for your Chrome device fleet (and you can buy devices from our <a href="https://chromeforworkdevices.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Chrome Store</a>). These settings provide added security for your employee and business data, tools for improved employee productivity and time savings with easier device management. <br /> <br /> As an administrator, Chrome device management lets you easily configure Chrome features for users, set up Chrome devices to access specific Wi-Fi networks and VPNs, automatically install Chrome extensions and apps and more. You can apply each setting to specific sets of users and devices, or to everyone in the organization. For example, you can configure a device to automatically connect to a specific network or restrict devices from it.<br /> <br /> You can also <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3017014?hl=en" target="_blank">manage public session devices</a> where multiple users can share the same Chrome device without the need to sign in with a username and password. Public session configurations are ideal on Chrome devices used for kiosks, loaner devices, shared computers or any other purpose in which users don't sign in.<br /> <br /> For more details and instructions, check out the <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7017523" target="_blank">Help Center article</a> about Chrome device management trials and subscriptions. </div> <br /> <hr width="80%" /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 8px;"><b>1</b> The trial is only available for customers in the U.S. and Canada and currently only available if you haven’t already purchased a Chrome device management license. It applies to annual Chrome device management licenses, so is not applicable for Education customers.</span></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Matt Drasner and Matt Blumberg, Product Managers, Chrome OS Team<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Google Apps customers, it’s now easier than ever to set up Chrome device management to manage employee Chrome devices <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7017523" target="_blank">directly from your Admin console</a>. If you’re still deciding whether Chrome device management is the best option for your business, you can also visit the Admin console to start a 60-day free trial of Chrome device management on up to 10 devices.<sup>1</sup><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsn-SY5C4JgYAqxzjQ7sOQVjweDMDO8r1INiMTirCNUXnBgZFoBp7kTXP_4uvjzq8KSnBze6Fvy8_NO60rfsFAk0q655Sz0tvnNB9OPAr-FxOZTFh9WRLQepH2t7eePoqNpnqbaFnYuY/s1600/device-management-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsn-SY5C4JgYAqxzjQ7sOQVjweDMDO8r1INiMTirCNUXnBgZFoBp7kTXP_4uvjzq8KSnBze6Fvy8_NO60rfsFAk0q655Sz0tvnNB9OPAr-FxOZTFh9WRLQepH2t7eePoqNpnqbaFnYuY/s640/device-management-1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(click to enlarge)</td></tr> </tbody></table> With <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/chrome-device-management/" target="_blank">Chrome device management</a>, you can manage and configure <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/2657289?hl=en&ref_topic=2935995" target="_blank">more than 200 features, policies and settings</a> for your Chrome device fleet (and you can buy devices from our <a href="https://chromeforworkdevices.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">Chrome Store</a>). These settings provide added security for your employee and business data, tools for improved employee productivity and time savings with easier device management. <br /> <br /> As an administrator, Chrome device management lets you easily configure Chrome features for users, set up Chrome devices to access specific Wi-Fi networks and VPNs, automatically install Chrome extensions and apps and more. You can apply each setting to specific sets of users and devices, or to everyone in the organization. For example, you can configure a device to automatically connect to a specific network or restrict devices from it.<br /> <br /> You can also <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3017014?hl=en" target="_blank">manage public session devices</a> where multiple users can share the same Chrome device without the need to sign in with a username and password. Public session configurations are ideal on Chrome devices used for kiosks, loaner devices, shared computers or any other purpose in which users don't sign in.<br /> <br /> For more details and instructions, check out the <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7017523" target="_blank">Help Center article</a> about Chrome device management trials and subscriptions. </div> <br /> <hr width="80%" /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 8px;"><b>1</b> The trial is only available for customers in the U.S. and Canada and currently only available if you haven’t already purchased a Chrome device management license. It applies to annual Chrome device management licenses, so is not applicable for Education customers.</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Announcing our free 60-day trial of Chrome device management for Google Apps customers&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='66' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-our-free-60-day-trial-of-Chrome-device-management-for-Google-Apps-customers.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20Device%20Management?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chrome Device Management </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3176576567210809148' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Flexibility meets efficiency for award-winning arts centre Vooruit, thanks to Google Apps'> Flexibility meets efficiency for award-winning arts centre Vooruit, thanks to Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 27, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Wim Roose, Head of IT at Vooruit</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Wim Roose, Head of IT at Vooruit, Belgium’s most culturally significant arts centre, as he describes how Google Apps has given it the freedom to develop and grow while remaining true to its values. With 80 members of staff, hundreds of artists and countless partners to manage each year, communication and collaboration has become key to running the centre efficiently without losing the essential spirit of the organisation.<br /> <br /> </i> <br /> <b>Vooruit is a unique place, not least because of its rich history and visionary objectives and aims. Can you tell us a little about its history and vision?</b><br /> <br /> Vooruit was originally designed and built in 1914 as a festival and arts centre. It had a ballroom, a cinema and a theatre, as well as exhibition spaces and venues for debates and meetings. It quickly became the epicentre of the Ghent-based labor movement, and the building itself became a symbol of the socialist movement in the interwar period. Even the name Vooruit itself means “cooperative.” Although it was abandoned and fell into disrepair, it was regenerated in the early 1980s by a group of friends who wanted to re-establish its significance and honour its history, and that’s what we still do today. <br /> <br /> We welcome around 300,000 visitors a year and host up to 600 events annually, meaning there’s something for everyone. We’re incredibly aware of the role we’re playing in Vooruit’s continuing history to provide arts services to the public, which is why we were determined to find a 21st Century IT solution that would allow us to work in the spirit of creativity, collaboration and cooperation that shaped the original Vooruit.<br /> <br /> <b>Tell us why you chose Google Apps to help deliver Vooruit’s objectives.</b><br /> <br /> Google Apps was an intuitive choice. As an IT guy, I love the openness of the Google ecosystem. We wanted to find a way of working that suited the company’s ethos rather than working against it, something that would allow us to work freely and collaboratively instead of having to conform. <br /> <br /> We also needed something that would support our organic growth and help us meet the efficiency needs of the modern world, and Google’s <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank">cloud-based</a> apps do just that. Our building may be historic but the way we work needs to be as efficient and modern as any business operating today. In fact, our investment in a digital office was necessary as well as logical — if we’re to continue to work with the government and other organisations to deliver public arts and culture services, we need to be compatible with their way of working, but without compromising our own values. Google Apps make that possible.<br /> <br /> <b>Can you explain how you use Google Apps to increase efficiencies?</b><br /> <br /> As opposed to working in the limiting and closed building automation system we largely relied on before, the Google ecosystem allows us to integrate everything into one interface, and for me that’s a giant step forward.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/gmail/index.html" target="_blank">Gmail</a> was the starting point for our digital revolution, and underpins how we work. We’ve migrated all 100 members of our staff from Outlook to Gmail, and we now send and receive up to 12,000 emails each month. Many of us now use Google Keep to create our “to do” lists, which means we can work collaboratively on projects with ease. The continuous updates to each project list allow us to work together with maximum efficiency, meaning no more duplication of effort or jobs left undone, as we all share access to the same real-time information. Gmail also allows us to track communications more effectively, and we can now communicate with each other — and artists and external partners — much more easily.<br /> <br /> <b>You’ve said that Vooruit is all about collaboration and cooperation — how does Google Apps help support this?</b><br /> <br /> <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/drive/index.html" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> has also been an integral part of our digital solution, and we now have around 25,000 files stored in the cloud, including <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/docs/index.html" target="_blank">Google Docs</a>, <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/sheets/index.html" target="_blank">Sheets</a> and <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/slides/index.html" target="_blank">Slides</a>. It’s been fundamental in terms of allowing access to information freely and easily. The planning of exhibitions and projects is a core part of what we do, but our existing planning software had limited document storage capacity. We now use Drive next to the planning software, which not only acts as a file server, but also a new way of communicating via the files themselves. We can upload all the relevant information for any one project in one place, which can be accessed wherever we are thanks to the cloud storage, meaning it’s much easier to work together.<br /> <br /> The use of Google Docs has also revolutionised our way of working with others. We were at a point where some people were working in the cloud and some were saving documents locally, so all our assets were everywhere but nowhere at the same time. It was a mess — we couldn’t find anything when we needed it. Now we have single documents stored in one place, annotated with comments that allow us to communicate with project managers, contractors, suppliers and building guards. The fact that colleagues and partners can all access the same Google Docs and update information simultaneously has made us instantly more efficient and collaborative.<br /> <br /> <b>What about communicating outside the core Vooruit team? How has Google Apps helped Vooruit to integrate with the wider world?</b><br /> <br /> We’re already ahead of the communications curve by using <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/hangouts/index.html" target="_blank">Hangouts</a> instead of arranging meetings in person. Our aim is to reduce our environmental impact as an organisation, and not driving 100km to a meeting with an external partner can really contribute towards meeting our green targets. Daily meetings with artists and cultural organisations from across the world are also now possible without leaving our desks, broadening our reach and our potential, as well as saving us time and money. <br /> <b><br /></b> <b>What does the future hold for Vooruit in terms of IT?</b><br /> <br /> Google Apps is key in helping us create a modern way of working that will grow with us, providing us with the flexibility to be creative as well as the efficiencies we need to succeed commercially. We’re constantly evolving while remaining true to our philosophy and we needed the fundamental change that would enable our organisation to be ready for the future and appeal to new recruits, artists and partners. Google’s cloud-based solutions have helped us prove that, as an arts organisation, we’re as willing and prepared to work digitally as any other industry, without having to compromise Vooruit’s original creative or collaborative values in the digital age.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Wim Roose, Head of IT at Vooruit</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Wim Roose, Head of IT at Vooruit, Belgium’s most culturally significant arts centre, as he describes how Google Apps has given it the freedom to develop and grow while remaining true to its values. With 80 members of staff, hundreds of artists and countless partners to manage each year, communication and collaboration has become key to running the centre efficiently without losing the essential spirit of the organisation.<br /> <br /> </i> <br /> <b>Vooruit is a unique place, not least because of its rich history and visionary objectives and aims. Can you tell us a little about its history and vision?</b><br /> <br /> Vooruit was originally designed and built in 1914 as a festival and arts centre. It had a ballroom, a cinema and a theatre, as well as exhibition spaces and venues for debates and meetings. It quickly became the epicentre of the Ghent-based labor movement, and the building itself became a symbol of the socialist movement in the interwar period. Even the name Vooruit itself means “cooperative.” Although it was abandoned and fell into disrepair, it was regenerated in the early 1980s by a group of friends who wanted to re-establish its significance and honour its history, and that’s what we still do today. <br /> <br /> We welcome around 300,000 visitors a year and host up to 600 events annually, meaning there’s something for everyone. We’re incredibly aware of the role we’re playing in Vooruit’s continuing history to provide arts services to the public, which is why we were determined to find a 21st Century IT solution that would allow us to work in the spirit of creativity, collaboration and cooperation that shaped the original Vooruit.<br /> <br /> <b>Tell us why you chose Google Apps to help deliver Vooruit’s objectives.</b><br /> <br /> Google Apps was an intuitive choice. As an IT guy, I love the openness of the Google ecosystem. We wanted to find a way of working that suited the company’s ethos rather than working against it, something that would allow us to work freely and collaboratively instead of having to conform. <br /> <br /> We also needed something that would support our organic growth and help us meet the efficiency needs of the modern world, and Google’s <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank">cloud-based</a> apps do just that. Our building may be historic but the way we work needs to be as efficient and modern as any business operating today. In fact, our investment in a digital office was necessary as well as logical — if we’re to continue to work with the government and other organisations to deliver public arts and culture services, we need to be compatible with their way of working, but without compromising our own values. Google Apps make that possible.<br /> <br /> <b>Can you explain how you use Google Apps to increase efficiencies?</b><br /> <br /> As opposed to working in the limiting and closed building automation system we largely relied on before, the Google ecosystem allows us to integrate everything into one interface, and for me that’s a giant step forward.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/gmail/index.html" target="_blank">Gmail</a> was the starting point for our digital revolution, and underpins how we work. We’ve migrated all 100 members of our staff from Outlook to Gmail, and we now send and receive up to 12,000 emails each month. Many of us now use Google Keep to create our “to do” lists, which means we can work collaboratively on projects with ease. The continuous updates to each project list allow us to work together with maximum efficiency, meaning no more duplication of effort or jobs left undone, as we all share access to the same real-time information. Gmail also allows us to track communications more effectively, and we can now communicate with each other — and artists and external partners — much more easily.<br /> <br /> <b>You’ve said that Vooruit is all about collaboration and cooperation — how does Google Apps help support this?</b><br /> <br /> <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/drive/index.html" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> has also been an integral part of our digital solution, and we now have around 25,000 files stored in the cloud, including <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/docs/index.html" target="_blank">Google Docs</a>, <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/sheets/index.html" target="_blank">Sheets</a> and <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/slides/index.html" target="_blank">Slides</a>. It’s been fundamental in terms of allowing access to information freely and easily. The planning of exhibitions and projects is a core part of what we do, but our existing planning software had limited document storage capacity. We now use Drive next to the planning software, which not only acts as a file server, but also a new way of communicating via the files themselves. We can upload all the relevant information for any one project in one place, which can be accessed wherever we are thanks to the cloud storage, meaning it’s much easier to work together.<br /> <br /> The use of Google Docs has also revolutionised our way of working with others. We were at a point where some people were working in the cloud and some were saving documents locally, so all our assets were everywhere but nowhere at the same time. It was a mess — we couldn’t find anything when we needed it. Now we have single documents stored in one place, annotated with comments that allow us to communicate with project managers, contractors, suppliers and building guards. The fact that colleagues and partners can all access the same Google Docs and update information simultaneously has made us instantly more efficient and collaborative.<br /> <br /> <b>What about communicating outside the core Vooruit team? How has Google Apps helped Vooruit to integrate with the wider world?</b><br /> <br /> We’re already ahead of the communications curve by using <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/hangouts/index.html" target="_blank">Hangouts</a> instead of arranging meetings in person. Our aim is to reduce our environmental impact as an organisation, and not driving 100km to a meeting with an external partner can really contribute towards meeting our green targets. Daily meetings with artists and cultural organisations from across the world are also now possible without leaving our desks, broadening our reach and our potential, as well as saving us time and money. <br /> <b><br /></b> <b>What does the future hold for Vooruit in terms of IT?</b><br /> <br /> Google Apps is key in helping us create a modern way of working that will grow with us, providing us with the flexibility to be creative as well as the efficiencies we need to succeed commercially. We’re constantly evolving while remaining true to our philosophy and we needed the fundamental change that would enable our organisation to be ready for the future and appeal to new recruits, artists and partners. Google’s cloud-based solutions have helped us prove that, as an arts organisation, we’re as willing and prepared to work digitally as any other industry, without having to compromise Vooruit’s original creative or collaborative values in the digital age.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Flexibility meets efficiency for award-winning arts centre Vooruit, thanks to Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='18' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/flexibility-meets-efficiency-for-award-winning-arts-centre-Vooruit-thanks-to-Google-Apps.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gmail?hl=en' rel='tag'> gmail </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Drive </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Slides%20API?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Slides API </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7205623476081509128' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='The business of connection: How Osmose links the front office to the field'> The business of connection: How Osmose links the front office to the field </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, September 26, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben Flock, Director of Operations Support, Osmose<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Ben Flock, director of operations support at Osmose, which provides inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation services and products to electric and telecommunications utilities. Read how <a href="http://www.osmose.com/" target="_blank">Osmose</a> provides its field workers with connectivity using <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>.<br /> </i> <br /> <br /> In business, as in life, connection breeds success. When you feel connected to your team, your network, your customer, your family, relationships are stronger and everybody wins.<br /> <br /> Osmose is in the business of connecting people. We do the work that ensures your utilities are up and running so when you open your laptop, you can connect to the internet, and when you pick up a landline telephone, you get a dial tone. We offer reliable service by maintaining the poles on which utility and electric lines are strung. This means our crews spend most of their time away from the office, and we rely on <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> to keep them connected in the field.<br /> <br /> Foremen are our first line of management and key to our operations. In the past, foremen had little connectivity and limited technology when working on a job site. They used paper and pen to collect data and complete administrative tasks. When they worked remotely they often missed important family events, such as childrens’ ball games or recitals. This made it hard for us to attract and retain staff. The problem compounded as we grew: we've tripled our number of field crews since 2006. Each crew has on average three people in it: a foreman plus two other field workers.<br /> <br /> To connect our teams and provide greater mobility, we replaced paper with Chromebooks. The devices combine the best features of tablets and laptops: they’re light, easy to use and have keyboards. Chromebooks are tough and sturdy, and well-suited for field work, including some models which have waterproof keyboards and rubberized edges so they can withstand rough weather and hard treatment in the field. They provide our crews with the capabilities they need at a price that has allowed us to provide one for each field crew at a relatively low cost.<br /> <br /> Chromebooks play a central role in our employees’ work from the day they start at Osmose. All onboarding forms are completed online, eliminating the vast majority of our paperwork. Every crew member is issued a Chromebook during their eight-week training period, which makes the process faster and more convenient because they can refer to it for information any time they want.<br /> <br /> Our foremen use Chromebooks on a daily basis and see the most significant benefits. They’re able to send data from the field, communicate with the main office and access safety information with the touch of a button. They can easily complete administrative tasks without carrying heavy binders. And it’s now possible for our crews to enjoy a better work-life balance because they can work from anywhere and their colleagues and family can reach them at any time via email or Google Hangouts video calls.<br /> <br /> We’re now expanding how we use Chrome devices. We’ve introduced <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/video-conferencing/" target="_blank">Chromebox for meetings</a> in our conference rooms and our training environments. Some of our vice presidents are also using Chromebooks for everyday computing because of their portability and convenience. These devices are helping to fuel our growth and accomplish our mission to help people stay connected.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ben Flock, Director of Operations Support, Osmose<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Ben Flock, director of operations support at Osmose, which provides inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation services and products to electric and telecommunications utilities. Read how <a href="http://www.osmose.com/" target="_blank">Osmose</a> provides its field workers with connectivity using <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>.<br /> </i> <br /> <br /> In business, as in life, connection breeds success. When you feel connected to your team, your network, your customer, your family, relationships are stronger and everybody wins.<br /> <br /> Osmose is in the business of connecting people. We do the work that ensures your utilities are up and running so when you open your laptop, you can connect to the internet, and when you pick up a landline telephone, you get a dial tone. We offer reliable service by maintaining the poles on which utility and electric lines are strung. This means our crews spend most of their time away from the office, and we rely on <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> to keep them connected in the field.<br /> <br /> Foremen are our first line of management and key to our operations. In the past, foremen had little connectivity and limited technology when working on a job site. They used paper and pen to collect data and complete administrative tasks. When they worked remotely they often missed important family events, such as childrens’ ball games or recitals. This made it hard for us to attract and retain staff. The problem compounded as we grew: we've tripled our number of field crews since 2006. Each crew has on average three people in it: a foreman plus two other field workers.<br /> <br /> To connect our teams and provide greater mobility, we replaced paper with Chromebooks. The devices combine the best features of tablets and laptops: they’re light, easy to use and have keyboards. Chromebooks are tough and sturdy, and well-suited for field work, including some models which have waterproof keyboards and rubberized edges so they can withstand rough weather and hard treatment in the field. They provide our crews with the capabilities they need at a price that has allowed us to provide one for each field crew at a relatively low cost.<br /> <br /> Chromebooks play a central role in our employees’ work from the day they start at Osmose. All onboarding forms are completed online, eliminating the vast majority of our paperwork. Every crew member is issued a Chromebook during their eight-week training period, which makes the process faster and more convenient because they can refer to it for information any time they want.<br /> <br /> Our foremen use Chromebooks on a daily basis and see the most significant benefits. They’re able to send data from the field, communicate with the main office and access safety information with the touch of a button. They can easily complete administrative tasks without carrying heavy binders. And it’s now possible for our crews to enjoy a better work-life balance because they can work from anywhere and their colleagues and family can reach them at any time via email or Google Hangouts video calls.<br /> <br /> We’re now expanding how we use Chrome devices. We’ve introduced <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/video-conferencing/" target="_blank">Chromebox for meetings</a> in our conference rooms and our training environments. Some of our vice presidents are also using Chromebooks for everyday computing because of their portability and convenience. These devices are helping to fuel our growth and accomplish our mission to help people stay connected.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:The business of connection: How Osmose links the front office to the field&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='9' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-business-of-connection-how-Osmose-links-the-front-office-to-the-field.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chromebooks </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5612295032000182835' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Georgia creates a faster, friendlier driver’s license experience with help from Chrome'> Georgia creates a faster, friendlier driver’s license experience with help from Chrome </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, September 21, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jeff Smith, CIO, Georgia Department of Driver Services</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> This week, we’re sharing two stories from Georgia state government agencies that have gone Google. Today we hear from Jeff Smith, CIO of Georgia Department of Driver Services, which provides secure driver and identity credentials to 3.5 million customers each year. See how Georgia Department of Driver Services saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, reduced wait times by 80% and improved customer service and experience with help from <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/kiosks-for-employees/" target="_blank">Chromeboxes</a>. <br /> </i> <br /> <br /> Think about the last time you got a new driver’s license. What was the experience like? I’d bet it involved take-a-number tickets, long lines and outdated computers. Recently, the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) decided to change the image in our offices across the state. <br /> <br /> In the years following the 2008 recession, the economy suffered and people feared losing their jobs. As a result, tax revenue was affected and Georgia government agencies faced 10 percent budget cuts across the board. Our management team came up with a creative solution — what if, instead of resorting to layoffs, furloughs or salary reductions, we could cut costs in other ways? Switching to <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/kiosks-for-employees/" target="_blank">Chromeboxes</a> was one of the ways we saved money to meet the required budget cuts.<br /> <br /> We submitted a formal proposal to the state technical authority to use Chromeboxes in our offices, and they gave us the green light once they understood it would be a secure solution. Chrome’s rigorous security settings and features mean we don’t have to worry about a customer data breach. The simple fact that devices store no data and reset automatically at the end of each session makes Chrome a secure solution for our locations. <br /> <br /> Since we started using Chromeboxes in 2013, we’ve saved hundreds of thousands of dollars each year and expanded our use of Chrome to create a better customer experience. We designed our central Atlanta customer service center to look more like a mobile retail store than a traditional government office. Instead of sitting behind a reception counter, employees greet customers on the floor and help them fill out applications online at high standing tables. Our staff interacts more personally with patrons and can serve them faster, too — the average wait time in remodeled offices equipped with Chromeboxes has dropped by 80% from 30 minutes to six.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7XPk2wXr-4yrObvx66kOnuJg68KGb7ecKwVd3wkSacU3C7pXt2IipwjfYhdGAOiHs8oap9bjbEE_5HV6OeyAsGIQZTCqrI5hm2M-v58NJGCdJm-Sn75OimcFwjA3NjSOpwy2JS6UpmE/s1600/georgia-driver-services.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7XPk2wXr-4yrObvx66kOnuJg68KGb7ecKwVd3wkSacU3C7pXt2IipwjfYhdGAOiHs8oap9bjbEE_5HV6OeyAsGIQZTCqrI5hm2M-v58NJGCdJm-Sn75OimcFwjA3NjSOpwy2JS6UpmE/s640/georgia-driver-services.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Chromeboxes are so intuitive that patrons of any age, background or technical ability can use them with ease. Some of our patrons know English as a second language, while others, like my dad, have trouble using computers. But it seems that anyone, including my dad, can use Chrome. Patrons also take the written portion of their driving test using these devices. Or, if a customer forgets their required identification documents, they can even use the device to access and securely print a water bill or bank records.<br /> <br /> We’ve modernized our office and are now more customer-centric by switching to Chrome. While getting a new driver’s license or ID may never be a thrilling errand, we can now make it an easier and more friendly experience for every customer who walks through our doors.</div> </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jeff Smith, CIO, Georgia Department of Driver Services</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> This week, we’re sharing two stories from Georgia state government agencies that have gone Google. Today we hear from Jeff Smith, CIO of Georgia Department of Driver Services, which provides secure driver and identity credentials to 3.5 million customers each year. See how Georgia Department of Driver Services saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, reduced wait times by 80% and improved customer service and experience with help from <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/kiosks-for-employees/" target="_blank">Chromeboxes</a>. <br /> </i> <br /> <br /> Think about the last time you got a new driver’s license. What was the experience like? I’d bet it involved take-a-number tickets, long lines and outdated computers. Recently, the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) decided to change the image in our offices across the state. <br /> <br /> In the years following the 2008 recession, the economy suffered and people feared losing their jobs. As a result, tax revenue was affected and Georgia government agencies faced 10 percent budget cuts across the board. Our management team came up with a creative solution — what if, instead of resorting to layoffs, furloughs or salary reductions, we could cut costs in other ways? Switching to <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/kiosks-for-employees/" target="_blank">Chromeboxes</a> was one of the ways we saved money to meet the required budget cuts.<br /> <br /> We submitted a formal proposal to the state technical authority to use Chromeboxes in our offices, and they gave us the green light once they understood it would be a secure solution. Chrome’s rigorous security settings and features mean we don’t have to worry about a customer data breach. The simple fact that devices store no data and reset automatically at the end of each session makes Chrome a secure solution for our locations. <br /> <br /> Since we started using Chromeboxes in 2013, we’ve saved hundreds of thousands of dollars each year and expanded our use of Chrome to create a better customer experience. We designed our central Atlanta customer service center to look more like a mobile retail store than a traditional government office. Instead of sitting behind a reception counter, employees greet customers on the floor and help them fill out applications online at high standing tables. Our staff interacts more personally with patrons and can serve them faster, too — the average wait time in remodeled offices equipped with Chromeboxes has dropped by 80% from 30 minutes to six.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7XPk2wXr-4yrObvx66kOnuJg68KGb7ecKwVd3wkSacU3C7pXt2IipwjfYhdGAOiHs8oap9bjbEE_5HV6OeyAsGIQZTCqrI5hm2M-v58NJGCdJm-Sn75OimcFwjA3NjSOpwy2JS6UpmE/s1600/georgia-driver-services.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7XPk2wXr-4yrObvx66kOnuJg68KGb7ecKwVd3wkSacU3C7pXt2IipwjfYhdGAOiHs8oap9bjbEE_5HV6OeyAsGIQZTCqrI5hm2M-v58NJGCdJm-Sn75OimcFwjA3NjSOpwy2JS6UpmE/s640/georgia-driver-services.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Chromeboxes are so intuitive that patrons of any age, background or technical ability can use them with ease. Some of our patrons know English as a second language, while others, like my dad, have trouble using computers. But it seems that anyone, including my dad, can use Chrome. Patrons also take the written portion of their driving test using these devices. Or, if a customer forgets their required identification documents, they can even use the device to access and securely print a water bill or bank records.<br /> <br /> We’ve modernized our office and are now more customer-centric by switching to Chrome. While getting a new driver’s license or ID may never be a thrilling errand, we can now make it an easier and more friendly experience for every customer who walks through our doors.</div> </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Georgia creates a faster, friendlier driver’s license experience with help from Chrome&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='11' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Georgia-creates-a-faster-friendlier-Drivers-License-experience-with-help-from-Chrome.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromeboxes?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chromeboxes </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5970356216443880690' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='What you love about Google Search — now for Drive'> What you love about Google Search — now for Drive </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 20, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Josh Smith, Product Manager</span><br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Google Drive <a href="https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-google-search-now.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>)</i><br /> <br /> Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more. Starting today, you can use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other new and improved features in Drive search on web to find files easier and faster. You'll also see a couple of highly-requested Google Docs features that have been added based on your feedback (thank you!).<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Search faster and with ease</h3> Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a fancy way of saying “search like you talk.” You can type things like “find my budget spreadsheet from last December” or “show me presentations from Anissa.” Drive will understand what you mean and give you the option to click for those specific search results. Drive NLP will get better with each query — so keep on searching. ;)<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8N3E6CKgpDHCRfh0G0mCdtEedcbvpbiv2p8CNXkpRKUv3ikHm2wgFnjD53vIfiT9Z78v7qr2_JqLA_6vrcSn7xq_QFcubGCMlLH4mxh2-TljeW0TWDp1wrfR-lFyfLytpTck-ICQnM/s1600/NLP.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8N3E6CKgpDHCRfh0G0mCdtEedcbvpbiv2p8CNXkpRKUv3ikHm2wgFnjD53vIfiT9Z78v7qr2_JqLA_6vrcSn7xq_QFcubGCMlLH4mxh2-TljeW0TWDp1wrfR-lFyfLytpTck-ICQnM/s640/NLP.gif" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Get help with speling — er, spelling</h3> <br /> When you're trying to find a doc fast, it's easy for typos to slip into your search. Drive now has a new autocorrect feature that suggests corrections to misspelled search terms — which can really help when your brain is moving faster than your fingers.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM3z3qCU4MQXm3o6y43Uv1geYFXgQOov-9HJJ54Vzpr-5RMqqI6p-6PXOab6R0onjpONEK77vMm2dBdQcfTR2pP2jW8lb1GwQjM35sSNjH5E1q_1HP5grPeVlrEX_eAkf2fMYytgS-Ns/s1600/Autocorrect.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM3z3qCU4MQXm3o6y43Uv1geYFXgQOov-9HJJ54Vzpr-5RMqqI6p-6PXOab6R0onjpONEK77vMm2dBdQcfTR2pP2jW8lb1GwQjM35sSNjH5E1q_1HP5grPeVlrEX_eAkf2fMYytgS-Ns/s640/Autocorrect.gif" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Enjoy other updates based on your feedback</h3> We’ve also added a few small but mighty features in Google Docs to help you create your best work:</div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>You can now easily split your document into multiple columns in Docs. Just choose “Columns” in the “Format” drop-down menu when you need more formatting options to get your point across.</li> <li>We know that work happens in all types of file formats. So, when you open, convert and edit non-Google files in Docs, Sheets and Slides, we’ll now save a copy for you. Just view or download the non-Google source file in its original format directly from <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/190843" target="_blank">Revision History</a> in Docs, Sheets and Slides on the web.</li> </ul> These features are available globally and will roll out gradually starting today. As always, tell us what you think about these new features on <a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive" target="_blank">Google+</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/googledrive" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. We’re listening.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Josh Smith, Product Manager</span><br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Google Drive <a href="https://drive.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-google-search-now.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>)</i><br /> <br /> Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more. Starting today, you can use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other new and improved features in Drive search on web to find files easier and faster. You'll also see a couple of highly-requested Google Docs features that have been added based on your feedback (thank you!).<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Search faster and with ease</h3> Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a fancy way of saying “search like you talk.” You can type things like “find my budget spreadsheet from last December” or “show me presentations from Anissa.” Drive will understand what you mean and give you the option to click for those specific search results. Drive NLP will get better with each query — so keep on searching. ;)<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8N3E6CKgpDHCRfh0G0mCdtEedcbvpbiv2p8CNXkpRKUv3ikHm2wgFnjD53vIfiT9Z78v7qr2_JqLA_6vrcSn7xq_QFcubGCMlLH4mxh2-TljeW0TWDp1wrfR-lFyfLytpTck-ICQnM/s1600/NLP.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8N3E6CKgpDHCRfh0G0mCdtEedcbvpbiv2p8CNXkpRKUv3ikHm2wgFnjD53vIfiT9Z78v7qr2_JqLA_6vrcSn7xq_QFcubGCMlLH4mxh2-TljeW0TWDp1wrfR-lFyfLytpTck-ICQnM/s640/NLP.gif" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Get help with speling — er, spelling</h3> <br /> When you're trying to find a doc fast, it's easy for typos to slip into your search. Drive now has a new autocorrect feature that suggests corrections to misspelled search terms — which can really help when your brain is moving faster than your fingers.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM3z3qCU4MQXm3o6y43Uv1geYFXgQOov-9HJJ54Vzpr-5RMqqI6p-6PXOab6R0onjpONEK77vMm2dBdQcfTR2pP2jW8lb1GwQjM35sSNjH5E1q_1HP5grPeVlrEX_eAkf2fMYytgS-Ns/s1600/Autocorrect.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM3z3qCU4MQXm3o6y43Uv1geYFXgQOov-9HJJ54Vzpr-5RMqqI6p-6PXOab6R0onjpONEK77vMm2dBdQcfTR2pP2jW8lb1GwQjM35sSNjH5E1q_1HP5grPeVlrEX_eAkf2fMYytgS-Ns/s640/Autocorrect.gif" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Enjoy other updates based on your feedback</h3> We’ve also added a few small but mighty features in Google Docs to help you create your best work:</div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>You can now easily split your document into multiple columns in Docs. Just choose “Columns” in the “Format” drop-down menu when you need more formatting options to get your point across.</li> <li>We know that work happens in all types of file formats. So, when you open, convert and edit non-Google files in Docs, Sheets and Slides, we’ll now save a copy for you. Just view or download the non-Google source file in its original format directly from <a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/190843" target="_blank">Revision History</a> in Docs, Sheets and Slides on the web.</li> </ul> These features are available globally and will roll out gradually starting today. As always, tell us what you think about these new features on <a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive" target="_blank">Google+</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/googledrive" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. We’re listening.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:What you love about Google Search — now for Drive&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='381' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/what-you-love-about-Google-Search-now-for-Drive.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Drive </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='629348613753016239' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='With Chromebooks and Google Apps, Georgia Department of Community Supervision switches to “virtual offices”'> With Chromebooks and Google Apps, Georgia Department of Community Supervision switches to “virtual offices” </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 20, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Phil Sellers, CIO of Georgia Department of Community Supervision</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> This week, we’re sharing two stories from Georgia state government agencies that have gone Google. Today we hear from Phil Sellers, CIO of Georgia Department of Community Supervision, which oversees 200,000 probationers and 25,000 parolees across the state. See how Georgia Department of Community Supervision has saved millions of dollars and switched to virtual offices with <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/work-computers-for-larger-businesses/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. <br /> </i> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> The mission of the <a href="http://dcs.georgia.gov/" target="_blank">Georgia Department of Community Supervision (DCS)</a> is to protect and serve our citizens by effectively supervising offenders. As CIO, it’s my job to make sure our busy officers have the technology they need to serve the community. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSYXhvvIVDz6XGB00yXwLYvgcTuvIsmyd4jvQ4WTxScS2RMkRiV7a7mWz26fvPBegIdBLF7vYs3EIhPb0ipAK_Rh_bxJxufVR1W0ctDfFRdruv0zp4Cb3AQ8SxT0FlnFr3YXC5RpI1A8/s1600/georgia-community-supervision-5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSYXhvvIVDz6XGB00yXwLYvgcTuvIsmyd4jvQ4WTxScS2RMkRiV7a7mWz26fvPBegIdBLF7vYs3EIhPb0ipAK_Rh_bxJxufVR1W0ctDfFRdruv0zp4Cb3AQ8SxT0FlnFr3YXC5RpI1A8/s640/georgia-community-supervision-5.png" width="640" /></a></div> Last year, the Department of Community Supervision went through a big transition. The state merged three different departments into the DCS, which added over 100 new offices to our existing 50. Because our staff spends most of their time driving around conducting community supervision visits, they’re rarely in the office. This means dozens of offices sat empty each day and we were wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on rent each year. As a state government agency, efficient spending is always a top priority, so we knew we needed a change. <br /> <br /> We decided to try something that had never been done in Georgia state government history: eliminate the majority of our offices entirely and allow hundreds of our 2,100 staff members to work remotely instead. Our existing desktop computers and office applications didn’t have the features to support remote workers, so we started looking into alternatives. I was familiar with Google’s cost-cutting, collaborative and mobile-friendly features, so my team led the switch to <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/work-computers-for-larger-businesses/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfRVzyDrBU3SULqv2Fyh8gtULD6FBcfBdUt7JQPSPMF4-2ei8vS8u9dUJjyAUBQMf9AdmVs2Zi4xKMVlpSPauMLdIKJXK_MXUUYy-pfz6g65Ie7N3XE6mVv2Jbv7kC455tD9Vqg50qwg/s1600/georgia-community-supervision.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfRVzyDrBU3SULqv2Fyh8gtULD6FBcfBdUt7JQPSPMF4-2ei8vS8u9dUJjyAUBQMf9AdmVs2Zi4xKMVlpSPauMLdIKJXK_MXUUYy-pfz6g65Ie7N3XE6mVv2Jbv7kC455tD9Vqg50qwg/s640/georgia-community-supervision.png" width="640" /></a></div> We’ve since saved millions of dollars on rent, enterprise licensing contracts, hardware, IT support costs and employee productivity. We no longer have dedicated IT services for routine storage and email support, and our small IT staff of 35 doesn’t need to roll out patches and antivirus software. If an officer closes her Chromebook or loses power, she doesn’t have to worry about trying to recover lost data. If we need to replace a device, it’s inexpensive and fast to get someone back up and running.<br /> <br /> We’ve also reduced security concerns, which is crucial for a government agency. Officers used to store their data on laptops, so if their device was lost or stolen, they’d lose sensitive information about parolees and probationers. With <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>, we store everything in the cloud and can easily wipe and replace a device if needed. Officers use a 2-step authentication to enter our systems, which adds another layer of security. <br /> <br /> Chromebooks and Google Apps played a key role in making the switch to “virtual offices” a success. 95% of the devices in the field are Chromebooks and Android phones, so officers working remotely can easily access the apps they need and share information with their colleagues using <a href="https://www.google.com/docs/about/" target="_blank">Google Docs</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/drive/" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> and <a href="https://hangouts.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Hangouts</a>. Because officers can work from anywhere, they can design their own schedules, helping them better manage their work-life balance and be more effective at visiting the offenders under their supervision. Since we’ve adopted the policy, officers are more productive, and sick leave and employee turnover have decreased.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8O6Qs_No3Y-X-2BEAG_fh83vN033ugFC2wHKjjFWrqudaTfIwm_WSjNBYp0nbIAyHAKk3cHwc66W_u3CYuKJbH1vvg0Yca6EnJmdKG6jRm9uFsVaAgdizz_rrl6Dc_a1rYmY5VjYFwQ/s1600/georgia-community-supervision-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8O6Qs_No3Y-X-2BEAG_fh83vN033ugFC2wHKjjFWrqudaTfIwm_WSjNBYp0nbIAyHAKk3cHwc66W_u3CYuKJbH1vvg0Yca6EnJmdKG6jRm9uFsVaAgdizz_rrl6Dc_a1rYmY5VjYFwQ/s640/georgia-community-supervision-4.png" width="640" /></a></div> Every technology we build, buy or deploy should help officers do their jobs better. That means encouraging chiefs to get out of the office and ride along with their officers and giving IT staff the freedom to develop new applications without having to worry about maintaining devices or troubleshooting storage and email. Since working in the cloud with Google, the Department of Community Supervision has been able to provide our officers with the tools they need to serve the communities that depend on them. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Phil Sellers, CIO of Georgia Department of Community Supervision</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> This week, we’re sharing two stories from Georgia state government agencies that have gone Google. Today we hear from Phil Sellers, CIO of Georgia Department of Community Supervision, which oversees 200,000 probationers and 25,000 parolees across the state. See how Georgia Department of Community Supervision has saved millions of dollars and switched to virtual offices with <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/work-computers-for-larger-businesses/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. <br /> </i> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> The mission of the <a href="http://dcs.georgia.gov/" target="_blank">Georgia Department of Community Supervision (DCS)</a> is to protect and serve our citizens by effectively supervising offenders. As CIO, it’s my job to make sure our busy officers have the technology they need to serve the community. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSYXhvvIVDz6XGB00yXwLYvgcTuvIsmyd4jvQ4WTxScS2RMkRiV7a7mWz26fvPBegIdBLF7vYs3EIhPb0ipAK_Rh_bxJxufVR1W0ctDfFRdruv0zp4Cb3AQ8SxT0FlnFr3YXC5RpI1A8/s1600/georgia-community-supervision-5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSYXhvvIVDz6XGB00yXwLYvgcTuvIsmyd4jvQ4WTxScS2RMkRiV7a7mWz26fvPBegIdBLF7vYs3EIhPb0ipAK_Rh_bxJxufVR1W0ctDfFRdruv0zp4Cb3AQ8SxT0FlnFr3YXC5RpI1A8/s640/georgia-community-supervision-5.png" width="640" /></a></div> Last year, the Department of Community Supervision went through a big transition. The state merged three different departments into the DCS, which added over 100 new offices to our existing 50. Because our staff spends most of their time driving around conducting community supervision visits, they’re rarely in the office. This means dozens of offices sat empty each day and we were wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on rent each year. As a state government agency, efficient spending is always a top priority, so we knew we needed a change. <br /> <br /> We decided to try something that had never been done in Georgia state government history: eliminate the majority of our offices entirely and allow hundreds of our 2,100 staff members to work remotely instead. Our existing desktop computers and office applications didn’t have the features to support remote workers, so we started looking into alternatives. I was familiar with Google’s cost-cutting, collaborative and mobile-friendly features, so my team led the switch to <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/work-computers-for-larger-businesses/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfRVzyDrBU3SULqv2Fyh8gtULD6FBcfBdUt7JQPSPMF4-2ei8vS8u9dUJjyAUBQMf9AdmVs2Zi4xKMVlpSPauMLdIKJXK_MXUUYy-pfz6g65Ie7N3XE6mVv2Jbv7kC455tD9Vqg50qwg/s1600/georgia-community-supervision.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfRVzyDrBU3SULqv2Fyh8gtULD6FBcfBdUt7JQPSPMF4-2ei8vS8u9dUJjyAUBQMf9AdmVs2Zi4xKMVlpSPauMLdIKJXK_MXUUYy-pfz6g65Ie7N3XE6mVv2Jbv7kC455tD9Vqg50qwg/s640/georgia-community-supervision.png" width="640" /></a></div> We’ve since saved millions of dollars on rent, enterprise licensing contracts, hardware, IT support costs and employee productivity. We no longer have dedicated IT services for routine storage and email support, and our small IT staff of 35 doesn’t need to roll out patches and antivirus software. If an officer closes her Chromebook or loses power, she doesn’t have to worry about trying to recover lost data. If we need to replace a device, it’s inexpensive and fast to get someone back up and running.<br /> <br /> We’ve also reduced security concerns, which is crucial for a government agency. Officers used to store their data on laptops, so if their device was lost or stolen, they’d lose sensitive information about parolees and probationers. With <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a>, we store everything in the cloud and can easily wipe and replace a device if needed. Officers use a 2-step authentication to enter our systems, which adds another layer of security. <br /> <br /> Chromebooks and Google Apps played a key role in making the switch to “virtual offices” a success. 95% of the devices in the field are Chromebooks and Android phones, so officers working remotely can easily access the apps they need and share information with their colleagues using <a href="https://www.google.com/docs/about/" target="_blank">Google Docs</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/drive/" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> and <a href="https://hangouts.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Hangouts</a>. Because officers can work from anywhere, they can design their own schedules, helping them better manage their work-life balance and be more effective at visiting the offenders under their supervision. Since we’ve adopted the policy, officers are more productive, and sick leave and employee turnover have decreased.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8O6Qs_No3Y-X-2BEAG_fh83vN033ugFC2wHKjjFWrqudaTfIwm_WSjNBYp0nbIAyHAKk3cHwc66W_u3CYuKJbH1vvg0Yca6EnJmdKG6jRm9uFsVaAgdizz_rrl6Dc_a1rYmY5VjYFwQ/s1600/georgia-community-supervision-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8O6Qs_No3Y-X-2BEAG_fh83vN033ugFC2wHKjjFWrqudaTfIwm_WSjNBYp0nbIAyHAKk3cHwc66W_u3CYuKJbH1vvg0Yca6EnJmdKG6jRm9uFsVaAgdizz_rrl6Dc_a1rYmY5VjYFwQ/s640/georgia-community-supervision-4.png" width="640" /></a></div> Every technology we build, buy or deploy should help officers do their jobs better. That means encouraging chiefs to get out of the office and ride along with their officers and giving IT staff the freedom to develop new applications without having to worry about maintaining devices or troubleshooting storage and email. Since working in the cloud with Google, the Department of Community Supervision has been able to provide our officers with the tools they need to serve the communities that depend on them. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:With Chromebooks and Google Apps, Georgia Department of Community Supervision switches to “virtual offices”&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='22' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/with-Chromebooks-and-Google-Apps-Georgia-Department-of-Community-Supervision-switches-to-virtual-offices.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2501001671817863377' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Scheels thrives in brick-and-mortar retailing by offering top-notch customer service using Chrome'> Scheels thrives in brick-and-mortar retailing by offering top-notch customer service using Chrome </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, September 19, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Josh Diemert, Lead Systems Administrator, Scheels</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we speak with Josh Diemert, lead systems administrator for <a href="http://www.scheels.com/" target="_blank">Scheels</a>, a 26-location sporting-goods chain with stores in 11 states. <br /> </i> <br /> <br /> Scheels, an employee-owned, privately held business with more than 6,000 employees, has a long history of adapting to changing times. Founded in 1902 as a small hardware and general merchandise store in Sabin, Minnesota, it added sporting goods in 1954, athletic clothing in 1972, and eventually grew into an all-sports chain. In this interview, we see how the company continues to adapt today, using Chrome to deliver better service to its customers with expert advice.<br /> <br /> <b>Why is technology important to Scheels? </b><br /> <br /> We aim to understand our customers and give them personal attention and local information. We’ve taken the in-store experience to a new level by leveraging technology to make shopping fun, while at the same time empowering our sales team to deliver a better quality of service.<br /> <br /> <b>How has Chrome helped?</b><br /> <br /> Chrome has dramatically improved our digital signage. We use Chromebits to power digital signs in key parts of the business, like our fishing shops. The signs display information on nearby river conditions and advice on the latest equipment and local fishing techniques. They’re incredibly popular features that have helped build customer loyalty.<br /> <br /> Given the success of our digital signage, it made sense to use Chrome for our in-store kiosks. The kiosks allow customers to order items that aren’t available in their local store. It’s the best of both worlds: hands-on advice from a local professional and access to the large inventory of an online retailer.<br /> <br /> Our sales team also uses <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> to streamline the customer workflow. Some purchases require background checks and a lot of paperwork, but Chromebooks makes it easy and more efficient to fill out the required forms. The technology also puts the right information at our employees’ fingertips, helping them provide better on-the-spot advice to our customers.<br /> <br /> <b>How did you get started with Chrome?</b><br /> <br /> About three years ago we transitioned to <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> with the help of Google Apps Premier Partner <a href="http://www.agosto.com/" target="_blank">Agosto</a>. We purchased our licensing through them. They also gave us guidance on migrating our data out of Lotus Notes and into Google Apps, and showed us the benefits of Chromebooks over the legacy machines we were using. When we saw the difference, we decided to try Chrome for digital signage, kiosks and our sales staff. <br /> <br /> <b>What other kinds of benefits have you gotten from Chrome?</b><br /> <br /> Before Chrome, it was a pain to get digital signs working — it could take a week or more to set up our legacy hardware. With Chromebits, it takes ten minutes to set up a digital sign, and we can manage them all from one location. This saves valuable time for our IT department. <br /> <br /> We’ve also saved money. We were considering Windows laptops for our sales associates, but by choosing Chromebooks we’re saving $200 per laptop.<br /> <br /> Overall, the biggest benefit has been giving our customers the attention they deserve, whether by offering local information, access to a larger range of products through our in-store kiosks, or making the customer workflow process easy with Chromebooks. We pride ourselves on being experts on everything we sell. With Chrome, our experts can spend more time with our customers and show them the personalized customer support that helps them choose exactly the right camping gear for a first family camping trip or the mountain bike that’s exactly the right height and weight. We’re such big believers in Chrome, we now turn to it as the first option for any new challenge.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Josh Diemert, Lead Systems Administrator, Scheels</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we speak with Josh Diemert, lead systems administrator for <a href="http://www.scheels.com/" target="_blank">Scheels</a>, a 26-location sporting-goods chain with stores in 11 states. <br /> </i> <br /> <br /> Scheels, an employee-owned, privately held business with more than 6,000 employees, has a long history of adapting to changing times. Founded in 1902 as a small hardware and general merchandise store in Sabin, Minnesota, it added sporting goods in 1954, athletic clothing in 1972, and eventually grew into an all-sports chain. In this interview, we see how the company continues to adapt today, using Chrome to deliver better service to its customers with expert advice.<br /> <br /> <b>Why is technology important to Scheels? </b><br /> <br /> We aim to understand our customers and give them personal attention and local information. We’ve taken the in-store experience to a new level by leveraging technology to make shopping fun, while at the same time empowering our sales team to deliver a better quality of service.<br /> <br /> <b>How has Chrome helped?</b><br /> <br /> Chrome has dramatically improved our digital signage. We use Chromebits to power digital signs in key parts of the business, like our fishing shops. The signs display information on nearby river conditions and advice on the latest equipment and local fishing techniques. They’re incredibly popular features that have helped build customer loyalty.<br /> <br /> Given the success of our digital signage, it made sense to use Chrome for our in-store kiosks. The kiosks allow customers to order items that aren’t available in their local store. It’s the best of both worlds: hands-on advice from a local professional and access to the large inventory of an online retailer.<br /> <br /> Our sales team also uses <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Chromebooks</a> to streamline the customer workflow. Some purchases require background checks and a lot of paperwork, but Chromebooks makes it easy and more efficient to fill out the required forms. The technology also puts the right information at our employees’ fingertips, helping them provide better on-the-spot advice to our customers.<br /> <br /> <b>How did you get started with Chrome?</b><br /> <br /> About three years ago we transitioned to <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps</a> with the help of Google Apps Premier Partner <a href="http://www.agosto.com/" target="_blank">Agosto</a>. We purchased our licensing through them. They also gave us guidance on migrating our data out of Lotus Notes and into Google Apps, and showed us the benefits of Chromebooks over the legacy machines we were using. When we saw the difference, we decided to try Chrome for digital signage, kiosks and our sales staff. <br /> <br /> <b>What other kinds of benefits have you gotten from Chrome?</b><br /> <br /> Before Chrome, it was a pain to get digital signs working — it could take a week or more to set up our legacy hardware. With Chromebits, it takes ten minutes to set up a digital sign, and we can manage them all from one location. This saves valuable time for our IT department. <br /> <br /> We’ve also saved money. We were considering Windows laptops for our sales associates, but by choosing Chromebooks we’re saving $200 per laptop.<br /> <br /> Overall, the biggest benefit has been giving our customers the attention they deserve, whether by offering local information, access to a larger range of products through our in-store kiosks, or making the customer workflow process easy with Chromebooks. We pride ourselves on being experts on everything we sell. With Chrome, our experts can spend more time with our customers and show them the personalized customer support that helps them choose exactly the right camping gear for a first family camping trip or the mountain bike that’s exactly the right height and weight. We’re such big believers in Chrome, we now turn to it as the first option for any new challenge.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Scheels thrives in brick-and-mortar retailing by offering top-notch customer service using Chrome&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='24' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Scheels-thrives-in-brick-and-mortar-retailing-by-offering-top-notch-customer-service-using-Chrome.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chromebooks </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3102630133620330442' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Pushing the boundary of Enterprise Security with Verified Access'> Pushing the boundary of Enterprise Security with Verified Access </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 15, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Saswat Panigrahi, Senior Product Manager, Chrome for Work<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> With security breaches that pose threats to businesses and their customers on the rise, CIOs are demanding more from their vendors when it comes to the security of their systems and devices. Advanced security is a mainstay of every Chrome device, regardless of price or type, and today we’re taking the next major step in bringing greater security to the enterprise with Verified Access for Chrome OS devices. <br /> <br /> Verified Access is the means by which a network service, such as a VPN gateway, a sensitive server, an Enterprise certificate authority (CA) or an Enterprise Wi-Fi access point can get a hardware-backed cryptographic guarantee of the identity of the device and user that’s trying to access it. Verified Access ensures that their state is unmodified and policy compliant. This matters because most businesses, particularly large enterprises, have policies and requirements in place that allow network and data access only to enterprise-managed and verified devices, but many of the current solutions rely primarily on heuristic client side checks. But, a bad actor that can compromise your Operating System can probably also fake the signals being checked for. <br /> <br /> Verified Access addresses this core challenge by leveraging the Trusted Platform Module (<a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usage" target="_blank">TPM</a>) present in every Chrome OS device to enable enterprise network services to cryptographically confirm the identity and status of verified boot and enterprise policy using a Google server-side API.<br /> When integrating with an enterprise CA, for instance, hardware-protected device certificates can be distributed only to managed, verified devices. For years, Google has been using Verified Access to enhance security by ensuring the veracity and policy compliance of Chrome devices before allowing access to resources, and now we're making it available externally. Duo Security and Ruckus Wireless have already integrated with our <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6QoOwMja77Of151tF8vyN55dFhhKLp_xnRhYHr4glA/edit" target="_blank">Verified Access API</a>.<br /> <br /> Duo Security, a trusted access provider, <a href="https://duo.com/blog/duo-collaborates-with-google-to-provide-verified-access-for-chromeos" target="_blank">now uses Verified Access</a> internally to reliably assess the security of Chromebooks. Michael Hanley, Director of Security at Duo Security says “Given that many other security properties that are essentially native to the security model and architecture of Chrome OS, Verified Access gives us a reliable way of measuring foundational, hardware-backed security properties of Chromebooks before they access our services. It’s a high-assurance way for us to clear Chromebooks for access internally and be certain that only our users and our devices are passed through to sensitive services and data. It’s a great step toward even stronger endpoint security posture for our company and our customers.”<br /> <br /> Ruckus Wireless has integrated its security management platform, Cloudpath ES, with the <span id="goog_1654372732"></span>Verified Access API<span id="goog_1654372733"></span> to securely differentiate between IT-owned and user-owned Chromebooks. The capability is available today in Cloudpath ES version 4.3. Kevin Koster, Chief Architect at Ruckus Wireless says, “The Verified Access API allows us to be cryptographically certain that a Chromebook is IT-owned before issuing it a certificate or allowing it to join the wireless network as an IT-owned device. Combined with Chromebook’s existing security features, Cloudpath creates a secure environment that is transparent to the end-user and the administrator. Over the last several months, we have been successful in deploying the solution in both education and high-security environments, including a global retail chain.”<br /> <br /> Identity, network and security providers, we also invite you to integrate with the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6QoOwMja77Of151tF8vyN55dFhhKLp_xnRhYHr4glA/edit" target="_blank">Verified Access API</a>. Administrators, here’s how you can <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7156268" target="_blank">deploy it</a>.<br /> <br /> In other security news, we’ve brought <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7014520" target="_blank">Smartcard Authentication support</a> to Chrome Device, the required way of authenticating for employees in many security sensitive organizations. With the newly launched <a href="https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/09/06/receiver-for-chrome-2-1-adds-smartcard-sson-com-port-redirection-and-secure-ica-support/" target="_blank">Citrix Receiver for Chrome 2.1</a>, users can now authenticate to virtualized Citrix apps using smartcards, and with SSO, login just once to their Chromebooks and be authenticated across Citrix and virtualized Windows apps. <br /> <br /> Later this month we’re planning on reviewing the key security features of Chrome OS and a deep dive on how to integrate with and benefit from Verified Access in your organization. <a href="https://lp.google-mkto.com/2016-Chrome-OS-Security-Video_01---Reg-Page.html" target="_blank">Sign up here</a> for more details. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Saswat Panigrahi, Senior Product Manager, Chrome for Work<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> With security breaches that pose threats to businesses and their customers on the rise, CIOs are demanding more from their vendors when it comes to the security of their systems and devices. Advanced security is a mainstay of every Chrome device, regardless of price or type, and today we’re taking the next major step in bringing greater security to the enterprise with Verified Access for Chrome OS devices. <br /> <br /> Verified Access is the means by which a network service, such as a VPN gateway, a sensitive server, an Enterprise certificate authority (CA) or an Enterprise Wi-Fi access point can get a hardware-backed cryptographic guarantee of the identity of the device and user that’s trying to access it. Verified Access ensures that their state is unmodified and policy compliant. This matters because most businesses, particularly large enterprises, have policies and requirements in place that allow network and data access only to enterprise-managed and verified devices, but many of the current solutions rely primarily on heuristic client side checks. But, a bad actor that can compromise your Operating System can probably also fake the signals being checked for. <br /> <br /> Verified Access addresses this core challenge by leveraging the Trusted Platform Module (<a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usage" target="_blank">TPM</a>) present in every Chrome OS device to enable enterprise network services to cryptographically confirm the identity and status of verified boot and enterprise policy using a Google server-side API.<br /> When integrating with an enterprise CA, for instance, hardware-protected device certificates can be distributed only to managed, verified devices. For years, Google has been using Verified Access to enhance security by ensuring the veracity and policy compliance of Chrome devices before allowing access to resources, and now we're making it available externally. Duo Security and Ruckus Wireless have already integrated with our <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6QoOwMja77Of151tF8vyN55dFhhKLp_xnRhYHr4glA/edit" target="_blank">Verified Access API</a>.<br /> <br /> Duo Security, a trusted access provider, <a href="https://duo.com/blog/duo-collaborates-with-google-to-provide-verified-access-for-chromeos" target="_blank">now uses Verified Access</a> internally to reliably assess the security of Chromebooks. Michael Hanley, Director of Security at Duo Security says “Given that many other security properties that are essentially native to the security model and architecture of Chrome OS, Verified Access gives us a reliable way of measuring foundational, hardware-backed security properties of Chromebooks before they access our services. It’s a high-assurance way for us to clear Chromebooks for access internally and be certain that only our users and our devices are passed through to sensitive services and data. It’s a great step toward even stronger endpoint security posture for our company and our customers.”<br /> <br /> Ruckus Wireless has integrated its security management platform, Cloudpath ES, with the <span id="goog_1654372732"></span>Verified Access API<span id="goog_1654372733"></span> to securely differentiate between IT-owned and user-owned Chromebooks. The capability is available today in Cloudpath ES version 4.3. Kevin Koster, Chief Architect at Ruckus Wireless says, “The Verified Access API allows us to be cryptographically certain that a Chromebook is IT-owned before issuing it a certificate or allowing it to join the wireless network as an IT-owned device. Combined with Chromebook’s existing security features, Cloudpath creates a secure environment that is transparent to the end-user and the administrator. Over the last several months, we have been successful in deploying the solution in both education and high-security environments, including a global retail chain.”<br /> <br /> Identity, network and security providers, we also invite you to integrate with the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6QoOwMja77Of151tF8vyN55dFhhKLp_xnRhYHr4glA/edit" target="_blank">Verified Access API</a>. Administrators, here’s how you can <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7156268" target="_blank">deploy it</a>.<br /> <br /> In other security news, we’ve brought <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7014520" target="_blank">Smartcard Authentication support</a> to Chrome Device, the required way of authenticating for employees in many security sensitive organizations. With the newly launched <a href="https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/09/06/receiver-for-chrome-2-1-adds-smartcard-sson-com-port-redirection-and-secure-ica-support/" target="_blank">Citrix Receiver for Chrome 2.1</a>, users can now authenticate to virtualized Citrix apps using smartcards, and with SSO, login just once to their Chromebooks and be authenticated across Citrix and virtualized Windows apps. <br /> <br /> Later this month we’re planning on reviewing the key security features of Chrome OS and a deep dive on how to integrate with and benefit from Verified Access in your organization. <a href="https://lp.google-mkto.com/2016-Chrome-OS-Security-Video_01---Reg-Page.html" target="_blank">Sign up here</a> for more details. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Pushing the boundary of Enterprise Security with Verified Access&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='11' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/pushing-the-boundary-of-Chrome-OS-Security-with-Verified-Access.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7173078796596687577' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='How Jtel used Chrome to reinvent the call center '> How Jtel used Chrome to reinvent the call center </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, September 14, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Lewis Graham, Chief Executive Officer, Jtel</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Lewis Graham, Chief Executive Officer of Jtel, which provides call center technologies for telecommunications companies and enterprises. Read how Jtel is transforming the call center industry using Chrome, which has added efficiency, time savings and ROI (45% increase for Jtel customers).</i> <br /> <br /> Think about the last time you needed to get in touch with a business. How did you contact them? You may have picked up the phone, but it’s just as likely you sent an email or a text message, tagged the company in a post on social media or visited the website to chat with a customer service rep. Today, there are dozens of ways for people to communicate with businesses. Companies who embrace this fact are rewarded with more engaged customers. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.jtel.de/en/" target="_blank">Jtel</a> set out to reinvent the call center so businesses can handle all the ways people get in touch with them. Based on our 25 years of experience providing call center technology for telecommunications firms and enterprises, we’ve built a new multi-channel call center platform using Chromebooks and <a href="https://webrtc.org/" target="_blank">WebRTC</a>. WebRTC is an open source project for real-time browser-based communications that was developed by Google. The Chrome and WebRTC solution eliminates telephones while letting agents handle email, chat and voice calls. Rather than switching between a phone and computer, the agent uses just one device. <br /> <br /> Chrome has improved our call centers on three important fronts: call center teams work more efficiently, their calls are more effective and they save time. Chrome devices are easy to configure and manage, and they’re highly reliable — particularly important because call centers are notoriously difficult to install. Chrome and WebRTC have dramatically reduced the time required to set up a new call center: it takes four hours to set up a center with 200 to 300 Chromebooks, compared to the four days it takes to set up a traditional call center of similar size. <br /> <br /> Chrome saves our customers money as well. In a traditional call center, each agent needs a PC and a telephone. There are also high deployment costs for each agent because of the complexity of the systems. Between hardware and implementation, it adds up to almost $1,300 per agent. Chrome and RTC save a huge chunk of that — about $800 per agent. By our calculations, that leads to a 45 percent increase in ROI for our customers.<br /> <br /> Chromebooks with WebRTC also transform the way companies interact with their customers. It lets agents connect with customers in multiple ways, not just by phone. And it allows companies to integrate their call centers with their CRM systems so they can create self-service modules for their customers. This empowers customers to resolve issues on their own. <br /> <br /> Companies need to to be able to help customers, however they choose to get in touch. Today, that’s through phone calls, emails, text messages and live chat. As these channels keep evolving, we will, too, thanks to Chrome and our partnership with Google. Chrome is helping us build the future of communications.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Lewis Graham, Chief Executive Officer, Jtel</span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Lewis Graham, Chief Executive Officer of Jtel, which provides call center technologies for telecommunications companies and enterprises. Read how Jtel is transforming the call center industry using Chrome, which has added efficiency, time savings and ROI (45% increase for Jtel customers).</i> <br /> <br /> Think about the last time you needed to get in touch with a business. How did you contact them? You may have picked up the phone, but it’s just as likely you sent an email or a text message, tagged the company in a post on social media or visited the website to chat with a customer service rep. Today, there are dozens of ways for people to communicate with businesses. Companies who embrace this fact are rewarded with more engaged customers. <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.jtel.de/en/" target="_blank">Jtel</a> set out to reinvent the call center so businesses can handle all the ways people get in touch with them. Based on our 25 years of experience providing call center technology for telecommunications firms and enterprises, we’ve built a new multi-channel call center platform using Chromebooks and <a href="https://webrtc.org/" target="_blank">WebRTC</a>. WebRTC is an open source project for real-time browser-based communications that was developed by Google. The Chrome and WebRTC solution eliminates telephones while letting agents handle email, chat and voice calls. Rather than switching between a phone and computer, the agent uses just one device. <br /> <br /> Chrome has improved our call centers on three important fronts: call center teams work more efficiently, their calls are more effective and they save time. Chrome devices are easy to configure and manage, and they’re highly reliable — particularly important because call centers are notoriously difficult to install. Chrome and WebRTC have dramatically reduced the time required to set up a new call center: it takes four hours to set up a center with 200 to 300 Chromebooks, compared to the four days it takes to set up a traditional call center of similar size. <br /> <br /> Chrome saves our customers money as well. In a traditional call center, each agent needs a PC and a telephone. There are also high deployment costs for each agent because of the complexity of the systems. Between hardware and implementation, it adds up to almost $1,300 per agent. Chrome and RTC save a huge chunk of that — about $800 per agent. By our calculations, that leads to a 45 percent increase in ROI for our customers.<br /> <br /> Chromebooks with WebRTC also transform the way companies interact with their customers. It lets agents connect with customers in multiple ways, not just by phone. And it allows companies to integrate their call centers with their CRM systems so they can create self-service modules for their customers. This empowers customers to resolve issues on their own. <br /> <br /> Companies need to to be able to help customers, however they choose to get in touch. Today, that’s through phone calls, emails, text messages and live chat. As these channels keep evolving, we will, too, thanks to Chrome and our partnership with Google. Chrome is helping us build the future of communications.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How Jtel used Chrome to reinvent the call center &url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Jtel-used-Chrome-to-reinvent-the-call-center.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chrome </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks?hl=en' rel='tag'> Chromebooks </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1575358665036942924' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='How Elsa State Bank made a road map to the future with Android for Work and Google Apps'> How Elsa State Bank made a road map to the future with Android for Work and Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 13, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jaime Hinojosa, Information Technology Officer, Elsa State Bank<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Jaime Hinojosa, Information Technology Officer at Elsa State Bank, which has served Texans since 1945. Learn how Elsa State Bank overhauled its IT department to provide its workforce with the tools to be more mobile and productive.</i> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.elsastatebank.com/" target="_blank">Elsa State Bank'</a>s 20,000 customers across South Texas depend on our expertise in commercial, consumer and agricultural finance. We’re always looking for ways to better serve our customers and grow our customer base. As an IT officer, I introduce, evolve and maintain the technology that helps our 100 employees acquire more customers. Security, durability and affordability are top of mind when I’m researching a new solution.<br /> <br /> In 2010, we looked to modernize our IT solutions. Our employees wanted greater flexibility to pursue customer leads outside of the office. At the time, our employees were using laptops and smartphones that didn’t have the security, functionality or mobile management we needed. I started researching other solutions and discovered <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a>, <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/admin/mobile/" target="_blank">Google Mobile Device Management</a> (Google MDM) and Android devices. I believed these solutions would help us achieve our goal of giving our team greater mobility with tools that not only advanced productivity but that also offered the security, central management and cost efficiency we required — I was right.<br /> <br /> Today we use Google MDM to manage 40 Samsung Galaxy smartphones and Samsung Note tablets. These Android devices help us save time and money. One example: We used to print and ship 300-page binders for board meetings, which was wasteful and inefficient, but now, board members use Android tablets during meetings to view and share annual reports and quarterly earnings presentations. <br /> <br /> Our employees are already benefitting from greater mobility at work. Lenders now commonly travel to construction sites to meet with customers, receive progress updates and pursue more loan opportunities. Loan officers who work away from the office can receive reminders about upcoming client meetings on their Android smartphone, locate and reach their destination using Google Maps and retrieve relevant customer documents from the cloud with <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/drive/" target="_blank">Google Drive</a>. <br /> <br /> The security of Google Apps was essential to our purchasing decision. Since commercial institutions can be targeted by cybercriminals, protecting our customer data is especially important. Our centrally-managed Android devices help us save time and money without compromising security, and IT administrators benefit from capabilities like mobile device management. Remote administration also helps us save time and money from a pure logistics standpoint — we don’t have to be on site to solve individual problems that arise. <br /> <br /> Before we adopted Google Apps for Work and Google MDM, our employees were clamoring for tools that allowed them to work from anywhere and better serve our customers. The integration of Google Apps and Google MDM, supported by Android devices, has vastly improved what our employees can accomplish each day. These tools have helped keep Elsa State Bank competitive amid a rapidly evolving work environment. <br /> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jaime Hinojosa, Information Technology Officer, Elsa State Bank<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Jaime Hinojosa, Information Technology Officer at Elsa State Bank, which has served Texans since 1945. Learn how Elsa State Bank overhauled its IT department to provide its workforce with the tools to be more mobile and productive.</i> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.elsastatebank.com/" target="_blank">Elsa State Bank'</a>s 20,000 customers across South Texas depend on our expertise in commercial, consumer and agricultural finance. We’re always looking for ways to better serve our customers and grow our customer base. As an IT officer, I introduce, evolve and maintain the technology that helps our 100 employees acquire more customers. Security, durability and affordability are top of mind when I’m researching a new solution.<br /> <br /> In 2010, we looked to modernize our IT solutions. Our employees wanted greater flexibility to pursue customer leads outside of the office. At the time, our employees were using laptops and smartphones that didn’t have the security, functionality or mobile management we needed. I started researching other solutions and discovered <a href="https://apps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Apps for Work</a>, <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/admin/mobile/" target="_blank">Google Mobile Device Management</a> (Google MDM) and Android devices. I believed these solutions would help us achieve our goal of giving our team greater mobility with tools that not only advanced productivity but that also offered the security, central management and cost efficiency we required — I was right.<br /> <br /> Today we use Google MDM to manage 40 Samsung Galaxy smartphones and Samsung Note tablets. These Android devices help us save time and money. One example: We used to print and ship 300-page binders for board meetings, which was wasteful and inefficient, but now, board members use Android tablets during meetings to view and share annual reports and quarterly earnings presentations. <br /> <br /> Our employees are already benefitting from greater mobility at work. Lenders now commonly travel to construction sites to meet with customers, receive progress updates and pursue more loan opportunities. Loan officers who work away from the office can receive reminders about upcoming client meetings on their Android smartphone, locate and reach their destination using Google Maps and retrieve relevant customer documents from the cloud with <a href="https://apps.google.com/products/drive/" target="_blank">Google Drive</a>. <br /> <br /> The security of Google Apps was essential to our purchasing decision. Since commercial institutions can be targeted by cybercriminals, protecting our customer data is especially important. Our centrally-managed Android devices help us save time and money without compromising security, and IT administrators benefit from capabilities like mobile device management. Remote administration also helps us save time and money from a pure logistics standpoint — we don’t have to be on site to solve individual problems that arise. <br /> <br /> Before we adopted Google Apps for Work and Google MDM, our employees were clamoring for tools that allowed them to work from anywhere and better serve our customers. The integration of Google Apps and Google MDM, supported by Android devices, has vastly improved what our employees can accomplish each day. These tools have helped keep Elsa State Bank competitive amid a rapidly evolving work environment. <br /> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How Elsa State Bank made a road map to the future with Android for Work and Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='5' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Elsa-State-Bank-made-a-road-map-to-the-future-with-Android-for-Work-and-Google-Apps.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android?hl=en' rel='tag'> Android </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Mobile%20Device%20Management?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Mobile Device Management </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3502640508239386986' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Google and Box Partner to transform work in the cloud'> Google and Box Partner to transform work in the cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, September 7, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productivity for businesses of all sizes. As part of this partnership, Box will integrate with Google Docs and Google Springboard to deliver a seamless experience for working and collaborating in the cloud. <br /> <br /> The integration between Box and Google Docs will enable Box to act as a third-party repository for Docs, Sheets and Slides, allowing users to create and collaboratively edit Google Docs directly from Box. <br /> <br /> We’re also working together to integrate Box with <a href="https://apps.google.com/campaigns/index__googlespringboardeap.html" target="_blank">Google Springboard</a>, which connects people and information with Google-powered search and intelligence. Through this integration, Springboard will help users find the right information at the right time, no matter where it’s hosted — in Gmail, Drive, Docs or in Box.<br /> <br /> We want our customers to have flexibility in their choice of tools and to have the most productive and collaborative suite possible for their needs. In fact, several of our own customers, like Avago, Intuit, Internet2 and Whirlpool already use Box and Google together, and these integrations will contribute to a more productive and collaborative enterprise. We’re excited to partner closely with Box to expand our efforts in the enterprise and transform how businesses work in the cloud.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners<br /> </span> <br /> <br /> Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productivity for businesses of all sizes. As part of this partnership, Box will integrate with Google Docs and Google Springboard to deliver a seamless experience for working and collaborating in the cloud. <br /> <br /> The integration between Box and Google Docs will enable Box to act as a third-party repository for Docs, Sheets and Slides, allowing users to create and collaboratively edit Google Docs directly from Box. <br /> <br /> We’re also working together to integrate Box with <a href="https://apps.google.com/campaigns/index__googlespringboardeap.html" target="_blank">Google Springboard</a>, which connects people and information with Google-powered search and intelligence. Through this integration, Springboard will help users find the right information at the right time, no matter where it’s hosted — in Gmail, Drive, Docs or in Box.<br /> <br /> We want our customers to have flexibility in their choice of tools and to have the most productive and collaborative suite possible for their needs. In fact, several of our own customers, like Avago, Intuit, Internet2 and Whirlpool already use Box and Google together, and these integrations will contribute to a more productive and collaborative enterprise. We’re excited to partner closely with Box to expand our efforts in the enterprise and transform how businesses work in the cloud.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google and Box Partner to transform work in the cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='101' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html?hl=en' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-and-Box-partner-to-transform-work-in-the-cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gmail?hl=en' rel='tag'> gmail </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Docs?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Docs </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Drive </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Springboard?hl=en' rel='tag'> Google Springboard </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Partner%20Showcase?hl=en' rel='tag'> Partner Showcase </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1538986514854434216' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Suffolk-Libraries-uses-Chrome-devices-to-keep-visitors-coming-back-for-more.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='How Suffolk Libraries uses Chrome devices to keep visitors coming back for more'> How Suffolk Libraries uses Chrome devices to keep visitors coming back for more </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 6, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Leon Paternoster, Deputy Head of IT, Suffolk Libraries</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Leon Paternoster, Deputy Head of IT at <a href="https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/" target="_blank">Suffolk Libraries</a> in Ipswich, UK. Suffolk Libraries serves the UK county’s population of over 700,000. Learn how Suffolk Libraries uses mobile technology to keep its members engaged and interested in visiting their local branch.<br /> </i> <br /> <br /> As a modern library network, we’re more than a place to read — we connect our members to the world around them. That connection could be a book, a newspaper or access to the internet. My job as deputy head of IT involves supporting and growing our libraries’ web services. Making access to information fast and easy across any and every library-owned device is a main focus for my team.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJiMPeR54eW4z9tmuXy5mta56YvBJKaH418x8dh8IApSVBRKZ2zfamrEgBMOEmeuWFlTx864mnDucaJtmsjqIlnZxFXqYWDoLoD-o4Z8J89O023Nyd1gCy7ayk144nQ4qLmHtK8z5AB0/s1600/suffolk-libraries.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJiMPeR54eW4z9tmuXy5mta56YvBJKaH418x8dh8IApSVBRKZ2zfamrEgBMOEmeuWFlTx864mnDucaJtmsjqIlnZxFXqYWDoLoD-o4Z8J89O023Nyd1gCy7ayk144nQ4qLmHtK8z5AB0/s640/suffolk-libraries.png" width="640" /></a></div> We know our members love browsing the web when they visit the library, so we wanted to make getting online as seamless as opening a book. In 2014, we worked with our partner <a href="http://www.ancoris.com/" target="_blank">Ancoris</a> to replace many of our outdated Windows PCs with <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. We also purchased a number of touchscreen <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Google Chromebases</a>, which allow children to interact with websites without using a keyboard or mouse. Ancoris developed a Chromebook Access Management System (CAMS) that integrates the Chromebooks with our existing library management system. This controls who can log on and how long they can stay online. Today we have more than 200 Chrome devices available for visitors to check out across our 44 branches. Now visitors are able to go online anywhere in the library. From young children playing literacy games to students diving into heavy research, customers of all ages can engage with material — whether at a shared table or in a quiet nook — on their Chromebook until the device is due back. <br /> <br /> Chromebooks and Chromebases have been so cost-effective — both initially and once deployed — that we’ve been able to increase the number of computers available to library users while upgrading our technology overall.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> Now that we have fast and simple ways for our visitors to get online, our branches are hosting new programs that people love. For instance, some branches have introduced “Code Clubs,” weekly meetings for younger visitors to play games and explore coding languages like Python and Scratch. We also provide a free <a href="https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/events/top-time-family-history" target="_blank">family history service</a> that helps members research their family trees online. <br /> <br /> From an IT perspective, Chrome devices are ideal. They’re secure, easy to use and require very little of our team’s time to manage. With <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/chrome-device-management/" target="_blank">Chrome Device Management</a>, we don’t have to worry about data on lost or stolen devices because we’re able to centrally shut down devices that we’ve identified as lost or stolen. Despite staff concerns about theft, we haven’t had a single Chromebook stolen. And with automatic system updates, the Chromebooks stay fast, up-to-date and ready to use at a moment’s notice.<br /> <br /> Our technology is a huge draw for library members. They look to us as a portal for information as well as a resource for pursuing their interests and professional goals. Chrome devices are the perfect library companion for our visitors and a simple solution for our IT team.<br /> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Leon Paternoster, Deputy Head of IT, Suffolk Libraries</span><br /> <br /> <i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today we hear from Leon Paternoster, Deputy Head of IT at <a href="https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/" target="_blank">Suffolk Libraries</a> in Ipswich, UK. Suffolk Libraries serves the UK county’s population of over 700,000. Learn how Suffolk Libraries uses mobile technology to keep its members engaged and interested in visiting their local branch.<br /> </i> <br /> <br /> As a modern library network, we’re more than a place to read — we connect our members to the world around them. That connection could be a book, a newspaper or access to the internet. My job as deputy head of IT involves supporting and growing our libraries’ web services. Making access to information fast and easy across any and every library-owned device is a main focus for my team.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJiMPeR54eW4z9tmuXy5mta56YvBJKaH418x8dh8IApSVBRKZ2zfamrEgBMOEmeuWFlTx864mnDucaJtmsjqIlnZxFXqYWDoLoD-o4Z8J89O023Nyd1gCy7ayk144nQ4qLmHtK8z5AB0/s1600/suffolk-libraries.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJiMPeR54eW4z9tmuXy5mta56YvBJKaH418x8dh8IApSVBRKZ2zfamrEgBMOEmeuWFlTx864mnDucaJtmsjqIlnZxFXqYWDoLoD-o4Z8J89O023Nyd1gCy7ayk144nQ4qLmHtK8z5AB0/s640/suffolk-libraries.png" width="640" /></a></div> We know our members love browsing the web when they visit the library, so we wanted to make getting online as seamless as opening a book. In 2014, we worked with our partner <a href="http://www.ancoris.com/" target="_blank">Ancoris</a> to replace many of our outdated Windows PCs with <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" target="_blank">Google Chromebooks</a>. We also purchased a number of touchscreen <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/" target="_blank">Google Chromebases</a>, which allow children to interact with websites without using a keyboard or mouse. Ancoris developed a Chromebook Access Management System (CAMS) that integrates the Chromebooks with our existing library management system. This controls who can log on and how long they can stay online. Today we have more than 200 Chrome devices available for visitors to check out across our 44 branches. Now visitors are able to go online anywhere in the library. From young children playing literacy games to students diving into heavy research, customers of all ages can engage with material — whether at a shared table or in a quiet nook — on their Chromebook until the device is due back. <br /> <br /> Chromebooks and Chromebases have been so cost-effective — both initially and once deployed — that we’ve been able to increase the number of computers available to library users while upgrading our technology overall.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> Now that we have fast and simple ways for our visitors to get online, our branches are hosting new programs that people love. For instance, some branches have introduced “Code Clubs,” weekly meetings for younger visitors to play games and explore coding languages like Python and Scratch. We also provide a free <a href="https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/events/top-time-family-history" target="_blank">family history service</a> that helps members research their family trees online. <br /> <br /> From an IT perspective, Chrome devices are ideal. They’re secure, easy to use and require very little of our team’s time to manage. With <a href="https://www.google.com/work/chrome/chrome-device-management/" target="_blank">Chrome Device Management</a>, we don’t have to worry about data on lost or stolen devices because we’re able to centrally shut down devices that we’ve identified as lost or stolen. Despite staff concerns about theft, we haven’t had a single Chromebook stolen. And with automatic system updates, the Chromebooks stay fast, up-to-date and ready to use at a moment’s notice.<br /> <br /> Our technology is a huge draw for library members. They look to us as a portal for information as well as a resource for pursuing their interests and professional goals. Chrome devices are the perfect library companion for our visitors and a simple solution for our IT team.<br /> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Suffolk-Libraries-uses-Chrome-devices-to-keep-visitors-coming-back-for-more.html?hl=en'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:How Suffolk Libraries uses Chrome devices to keep visitors coming back for more&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/how-Suffolk-Libraries-uses-Chrome-devices-to-keep-visitors-coming-back-for-more.html?hl=en&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' 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</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4279395669512727899' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/keeping-Android-safe-security-enhancements-in-Nougat.html?hl=en' itemprop='url' title='Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat'> Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 6, 2016 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Xiaowen Xin, Android Security Team</span> <br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Android Developers <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/09/security-enhancements-in-nougat.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>.)</i> <br /> <br /> Over the course of the summer, we previewed a variety of security enhancements in Android 7.0 Nougat: an increased focus on security with our <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/06/one-year-of-android-security-rewards.html">vulnerability rewards program</a>, a new <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/developing-for-direct-boot.html">Direct Boot</a> mode, re-architected mediaserver and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/05/hardening-media-stack.html">hardened media stack</a>, apps that are protected from <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/protecting-against-unintentional.html">accidental regressions to cleartext traffic</a>, an update to the way Android handles <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html">trusted certificate authorities,</a> strict enforcement of <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/strictly-enforced-verified-boot-with.html">verified boot</a> with error correction, and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/protecting-android-with-more-linux.html">updates to the Linux kernel to reduce the attack surface and increase memory protection</a>. Phew!<br /> <br /> <br /> Now that Nougat has begun to roll out, we wanted to recap these updates in a single overview and highlight a few new improvements.<br /> <br /> <h3> Direct Boot and encryption</h3> In previous versions of Android, users with encrypted devices would have to enter their PIN/pattern/password by default during the boot process to decrypt their storage area and finish booting. With Android 7.0 Nougat, we’ve updated the underlying encryption scheme and streamlined the boot process to speed up rebooting your phone. Now your phone’s main features, like the phone app and your alarm clock, are ready right away before you even type your PIN, so people can call you and your alarm clock can wake you up. We call this feature <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/developing-for-direct-boot.html">Direct Boot</a>.<br /> <br /> <br /> Under the hood, file-based encryption enables this improved user experience. With this new encryption scheme, the system storage area, as well as each user profile storage area, are all encrypted separately. Unlike with full-disk encryption, where all data was encrypted as a single unit, per-profile-based encryption enables the system to reboot normally into a functional state using just device keys. Essential apps can opt-in to run in a limited state after reboot, and when you enter your lock screen credential, these apps then get access your user data to provide full functionality. File-based encryption better isolates and protects individual users and profiles on a device by encrypting data at a finer granularity. Each profile is encrypted using a unique key that can only be unlocked by your PIN or password, so that your data can only be decrypted by you.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnBnFe0W7ySlE2CZfRQq3KqrP7WEJb9y9I1pirgeVYAOMiFPVMtnnhFv6rj9QeRFcxb8s1Gc9N2IjbHhC1w68a-UBODcjop3Q0e_2vXArZRvVEBLdGs1AU4eM1UGrvBGMY7UX3jEoafgL/s1600/image00.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnBnFe0W7ySlE2CZfRQq3KqrP7WEJb9y9I1pirgeVYAOMiFPVMtnnhFv6rj9QeRFcxb8s1Gc9N2IjbHhC1w68a-UBODcjop3Q0e_2vXArZRvVEBLdGs1AU4eM1UGrvBGMY7UX3jEoafgL/s400/image00.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Encryption support is getting stronger across the Android ecosystem as well. Starting with Marshmallow, all capable devices were required to support encryption. Many devices, like Nexus 5X and 6P also use unique keys that are accessible only with trusted hardware, such as the ARM TrustZone. Now with 7.0 Nougat, all new capable Android devices must also have this kind of hardware support for key storage and provide brute force protection while verifying your lock screen credential before these keys can be used. This way, all of your data can only be decrypted on that exact device and only by you.<br /> <br /> <h3> The media stack and platform hardening</h3> In Android Nougat, we’ve both hardened and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/05/hardening-media-stack.html">re-architected</a> mediaserver, one of the main system services that processes untrusted input. First, by incorporating integer overflow sanitization, part of Clang’s <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html">UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer</a>, we prevent an entire class of vulnerabilities, which comprise the majority of reported libstagefright bugs. As soon as an integer overflow is detected, we shut down the process so an attack is stopped. Second, we’ve modularized the media stack to put different components into individual sandboxes and tightened the privileges of each sandbox to have the minimum privileges required to perform its job. With this containment technique, a compromise in many parts of the stack grants the attacker access to significantly fewer permissions and significantly reduced exposed kernel attack surface. In addition to hardening the mediaserver, we’ve added a large list of protections for the platform, including:<br /> <ul> <li><strong>Verified Boot</strong>: Verified Boot is now strictly enforced to prevent compromised devices from booting; it supports <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/strictly-enforced-verified-boot-with.html">error correction</a> to improve reliability against non-malicious data corruption.<br /> </li> <li><strong>SELinux</strong>: Updated SELinux configuration and increased Seccomp coverage further locks down the application sandbox and reduces attack surface.<br /> </li> <li><strong>Library load order randomization and improved ASLR</strong>: Increased randomness makes some code-reuse attacks less reliable.<br /> </li> <li><strong><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/protecting-android-with-more-linux.html">Kernel hardening</a></strong>: Added additional memory protection for newer kernels by <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+project:kernel/common+branch:android-3.18+topic:arm64-ronx">marking portions of kernel memory as read-only</a>, <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+project:kernel/common+branch:android-4.1+topic:sw_PAN">restricting kernel access to userspace addresses</a>, and further reducing the existing attack surface.<br /> </li> <li><strong><a href="https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#apk_signature_v2">APK signature scheme v2</a></strong>: Introduced a whole-file signature scheme that improves <a href="https://source.android.com/security/apksigning/v2.html#verification">verification speed</a> and strengthens integrity guarantees.</li> </ul> <h3> App security improvements </h3> Android Nougat is the safest and easiest version of Android for application developers to use. <br /> <ul> <li>Apps that want to share data with other apps now must explicitly opt-in by offering their files through a <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">Content Provider</a>, like <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/FileProvider.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">FileProvider</a>. The application private directory (usually /data/data/<app_dir>) is now set to Linux permission 0700 for apps targeting API Level 24+.<br /> </app_dir></li> <li>To make it easier for apps to control access to their secure network traffic, user-installed certificate authorities and those installed through Device Admin APIs are <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html">no longer trusted by default</a> for apps targeting API Level 24+. Additionally, all new Android devices must ship with the <a href="https://source.android.com/security/overview/app-security.html#certificate-authorities">same trusted CA store</a>.<br /> </li> <li>With <a href="https://developer.android.com/preview/features/security-config.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">Network Security Config</a>, developers can more easily configure network security policy through a declarative configuration file. This includes blocking cleartext traffic, configuring the set of trusted CAs and certificates, and setting up a separate debug configuration.</li> </ul> We’ve also continued to refine app permissions and capabilities to protect you from potentially harmful apps. <br /> <ul> <li>To improve device privacy, we have further restricted and removed access to persistent device identifiers such as MAC addresses.<br /> </li> <li>User interface overlays can no longer be displayed on top of permissions dialogs. This “clickjacking” technique was used by some apps to attempt to gain permissions improperly.<br /> </li> <li>We’ve reduced the power of device admin applications so they can no longer change your lockscreen if you have a lockscreen set, and device admin will no longer be notified of impending disable via <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DeviceAdminReceiver.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#onDisableRequested(android.content.Context,%20android.content.Intent)">onDisableRequested()</a>.These were tactics used by some ransomware to gain control of a<br /> device.</li> </ul> <h3> System Updates</h3> Lastly, we've made significant enhancements to the OTA update system to keep your device up-to-date much more easily with the latest system software and security patches. We've made the install time for OTAs faster, and the OTA size smaller for security updates. You no longer have to wait for the optimizing apps step, which was one of the slowest parts of the update process, because the new JIT compiler has been <a href="https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#doze_on_the_go">optimized</a> to make installs and updates lightning fast. <br /> <br /> The update experience is even faster for new Android devices running Nougat with updated firmware. Like they do with Chromebooks, updates are applied in the background while the device continues to run normally. These updates are applied to a different system partition, and when you reboot, it will seamlessly switch to that new partition running the new system software version. <br /> <br /> We’re constantly working to improve Android security and Android Nougat brings significant security improvements across all fronts. As always, we appreciate feedback on our work and welcome suggestions for how we can improve Android. Contact us at <a href="mailto:security@android.com">security@android.com</a>. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Xiaowen Xin, Android Security Team</span> <br /> <br /> <i>(Cross-posted on the Android Developers <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/09/security-enhancements-in-nougat.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>.)</i> <br /> <br /> Over the course of the summer, we previewed a variety of security enhancements in Android 7.0 Nougat: an increased focus on security with our <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/06/one-year-of-android-security-rewards.html">vulnerability rewards program</a>, a new <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/developing-for-direct-boot.html">Direct Boot</a> mode, re-architected mediaserver and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/05/hardening-media-stack.html">hardened media stack</a>, apps that are protected from <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/protecting-against-unintentional.html">accidental regressions to cleartext traffic</a>, an update to the way Android handles <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html">trusted certificate authorities,</a> strict enforcement of <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/strictly-enforced-verified-boot-with.html">verified boot</a> with error correction, and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/protecting-android-with-more-linux.html">updates to the Linux kernel to reduce the attack surface and increase memory protection</a>. Phew!<br /> <br /> <br /> Now that Nougat has begun to roll out, we wanted to recap these updates in a single overview and highlight a few new improvements.<br /> <br /> <h3> Direct Boot and encryption</h3> In previous versions of Android, users with encrypted devices would have to enter their PIN/pattern/password by default during the boot process to decrypt their storage area and finish booting. With Android 7.0 Nougat, we’ve updated the underlying encryption scheme and streamlined the boot process to speed up rebooting your phone. Now your phone’s main features, like the phone app and your alarm clock, are ready right away before you even type your PIN, so people can call you and your alarm clock can wake you up. We call this feature <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/developing-for-direct-boot.html">Direct Boot</a>.<br /> <br /> <br /> Under the hood, file-based encryption enables this improved user experience. With this new encryption scheme, the system storage area, as well as each user profile storage area, are all encrypted separately. Unlike with full-disk encryption, where all data was encrypted as a single unit, per-profile-based encryption enables the system to reboot normally into a functional state using just device keys. Essential apps can opt-in to run in a limited state after reboot, and when you enter your lock screen credential, these apps then get access your user data to provide full functionality. File-based encryption better isolates and protects individual users and profiles on a device by encrypting data at a finer granularity. Each profile is encrypted using a unique key that can only be unlocked by your PIN or password, so that your data can only be decrypted by you.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnBnFe0W7ySlE2CZfRQq3KqrP7WEJb9y9I1pirgeVYAOMiFPVMtnnhFv6rj9QeRFcxb8s1Gc9N2IjbHhC1w68a-UBODcjop3Q0e_2vXArZRvVEBLdGs1AU4eM1UGrvBGMY7UX3jEoafgL/s1600/image00.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnBnFe0W7ySlE2CZfRQq3KqrP7WEJb9y9I1pirgeVYAOMiFPVMtnnhFv6rj9QeRFcxb8s1Gc9N2IjbHhC1w68a-UBODcjop3Q0e_2vXArZRvVEBLdGs1AU4eM1UGrvBGMY7UX3jEoafgL/s400/image00.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Encryption support is getting stronger across the Android ecosystem as well. Starting with Marshmallow, all capable devices were required to support encryption. Many devices, like Nexus 5X and 6P also use unique keys that are accessible only with trusted hardware, such as the ARM TrustZone. Now with 7.0 Nougat, all new capable Android devices must also have this kind of hardware support for key storage and provide brute force protection while verifying your lock screen credential before these keys can be used. This way, all of your data can only be decrypted on that exact device and only by you.<br /> <br /> <h3> The media stack and platform hardening</h3> In Android Nougat, we’ve both hardened and <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/05/hardening-media-stack.html">re-architected</a> mediaserver, one of the main system services that processes untrusted input. First, by incorporating integer overflow sanitization, part of Clang’s <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html">UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer</a>, we prevent an entire class of vulnerabilities, which comprise the majority of reported libstagefright bugs. As soon as an integer overflow is detected, we shut down the process so an attack is stopped. Second, we’ve modularized the media stack to put different components into individual sandboxes and tightened the privileges of each sandbox to have the minimum privileges required to perform its job. With this containment technique, a compromise in many parts of the stack grants the attacker access to significantly fewer permissions and significantly reduced exposed kernel attack surface. In addition to hardening the mediaserver, we’ve added a large list of protections for the platform, including:<br /> <ul> <li><strong>Verified Boot</strong>: Verified Boot is now strictly enforced to prevent compromised devices from booting; it supports <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/strictly-enforced-verified-boot-with.html">error correction</a> to improve reliability against non-malicious data corruption.<br /> </li> <li><strong>SELinux</strong>: Updated SELinux configuration and increased Seccomp coverage further locks down the application sandbox and reduces attack surface.<br /> </li> <li><strong>Library load order randomization and improved ASLR</strong>: Increased randomness makes some code-reuse attacks less reliable.<br /> </li> <li><strong><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/protecting-android-with-more-linux.html">Kernel hardening</a></strong>: Added additional memory protection for newer kernels by <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+project:kernel/common+branch:android-3.18+topic:arm64-ronx">marking portions of kernel memory as read-only</a>, <a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+project:kernel/common+branch:android-4.1+topic:sw_PAN">restricting kernel access to userspace addresses</a>, and further reducing the existing attack surface.<br /> </li> <li><strong><a href="https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#apk_signature_v2">APK signature scheme v2</a></strong>: Introduced a whole-file signature scheme that improves <a href="https://source.android.com/security/apksigning/v2.html#verification">verification speed</a> and strengthens integrity guarantees.</li> </ul> <h3> App security improvements </h3> Android Nougat is the safest and easiest version of Android for application developers to use. <br /> <ul> <li>Apps that want to share data with other apps now must explicitly opt-in by offering their files through a <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">Content Provider</a>, like <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/FileProvider.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">FileProvider</a>. The application private directory (usually /data/data/<app_dir>) is now set to Linux permission 0700 for apps targeting API Level 24+.<br /> </app_dir></li> <li>To make it easier for apps to control access to their secure network traffic, user-installed certificate authorities and those installed through Device Admin APIs are <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html">no longer trusted by default</a> for apps targeting API Level 24+. Additionally, all new Android devices must ship with the <a href="https://source.android.com/security/overview/app-security.html#certificate-authorities">same trusted CA store</a>.<br /> </li> <li>With <a href="https://developer.android.com/preview/features/security-config.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">Network Security Config</a>, developers can more easily configure network security policy through a declarative configuration file. This includes blocking cleartext traffic, configuring the set of trusted CAs and certificates, and setting up a separate debug configuration.</li> </ul> We’ve also continued to refine app permissions and capabilities to protect you from potentially harmful apps. <br /> <ul> <li>To improve device privacy, we have further restricted and removed access to persistent device identifiers such as MAC addresses.<br /> </li> <li>User interface overlays can no longer be displayed on top of permissions dialogs. This “clickjacking” technique was used by some apps to attempt to gain permissions improperly.<br /> </li> <li>We’ve reduced the power of device admin applications so they can no longer change your lockscreen if you have a lockscreen set, and device admin will no longer be notified of impending disable via <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DeviceAdminReceiver.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#onDisableRequested(android.content.Context,%20android.content.Intent)">onDisableRequested()</a>.These were tactics used by some ransomware to gain control of a<br /> device.</li> </ul> <h3> System Updates</h3> Lastly, we've made significant enhancements to the OTA update system to keep your device up-to-date much more easily with the latest system software and security patches. We've made the install time for OTAs faster, and the OTA size smaller for security updates. You no longer have to wait for the optimizing apps step, which was one of the slowest parts of the update process, because the new JIT compiler has been <a href="https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_security_090616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog#doze_on_the_go">optimized</a> to make installs and updates lightning fast. <br /> <br /> The update experience is even faster for new Android devices running Nougat with updated firmware. Like they do with Chromebooks, updates are applied in the background while the device continues to run normally. These updates are applied to a different system partition, and when you reboot, it will seamlessly switch to that new partition running the new system software version. <br /> <br /> We’re constantly working to improve Android security and Android Nougat brings significant security improvements across all fronts. 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href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/add-ons?hl=en'> add-ons </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/admin?hl=en'> admin </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Admin%20console?hl=en'> Admin console </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/admin%20sdk?hl=en'> admin sdk </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/AirPlay?hl=en'> AirPlay </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android?hl=en'> Android </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Android for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20for%20Work%20Live?hl=en'> Android for Work Live </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20Marshmellow?hl=en'> Android Marshmellow </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20Nougat?hl=en'> Android Nougat </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20security?hl=en'> Android security </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Android%20security%20tips?hl=en'> Android security tips </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Apps%20Adventures?hl=en'> Apps Adventures </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/apps%20script?hl=en'> apps script </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/apptuesday?hl=en'> apptuesday </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Armed%20Forces%20Day?hl=en'> Armed Forces Day </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Asia%20Pacific?hl=en'> Asia Pacific </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Atmosphere%20Live?hl=en'> Atmosphere Live </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Audi?hl=en'> Audi </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Audi%20Connect?hl=en'> Audi Connect </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/audit?hl=en'> audit </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Australia?hl=en'> Australia </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/big%20data?hl=en'> big data </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Big%20Query?hl=en'> Big Query </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/bigquery?hl=en'> bigquery </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Boston?hl=en'> Boston </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/browser?hl=en'> browser </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chomebox%20for%20Meetings?hl=en'> Chomebox for Meetings </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome?hl=en'> Chrome </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20Device%20Management?hl=en'> Chrome Device Management </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20digital%20signage?hl=en'> Chrome digital signage </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20for%20Business?hl=en'> Chrome for Business </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Chrome for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20Frame?hl=en'> Chrome Frame </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20OS?hl=en'> Chrome OS </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebit?hl=en'> Chromebit </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks?hl=en'> Chromebooks </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks%20for%20Business?hl=en'> Chromebooks for Business </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks%20for%20Education?hl=en'> Chromebooks for Education </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebooks%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Chromebooks for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebox%20for%20digital%20signage?hl=en'> Chromebox for digital signage </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebox%20for%20meetings?hl=en'> Chromebox for meetings </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromebox%20for%20signage?hl=en'> Chromebox for signage </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromeboxes?hl=en'> Chromeboxes </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chromecast?hl=en'> Chromecast </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/City%2024%2F7?hl=en'> City 24/7 </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Classroom?hl=en'> Classroom </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Clearing%20Kosovo?hl=en'> Clearing Kosovo </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Cloud?hl=en'> Cloud </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing?hl=en'> cloud computing </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing%20gonegoogle?hl=en'> cloud computing gonegoogle </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing%20gonegoogle%20Google%20Apps?hl=en'> cloud computing gonegoogle Google Apps </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing%20gonegoogle%20Google%20Apps%20google%20docs%20small%20business%20success%20story?hl=en'> cloud computing gonegoogle Google Apps google docs small business success story </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing%20gonegoogle%20Google%20Apps%20google%20docs%20small%20business%20success%20story%20switch?hl=en'> cloud computing gonegoogle Google Apps google docs small business success story switch </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20datastore?hl=en'> cloud datastore </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20platform?hl=en'> cloud platform </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Cloud%20Platform%20Live?hl=en'> Cloud Platform Live </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20print?hl=en'> cloud print </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20series?hl=en'> cloud series </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20services?hl=en'> cloud services </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20sql?hl=en'> cloud sql </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/collaboration?hl=en'> collaboration </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Colorado?hl=en'> Colorado </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Connectors?hl=en'> Connectors </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/contacts?hl=en'> contacts </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Control%20Panel?hl=en'> Control Panel </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer?hl=en'> customer </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love?hl=en'> customer love </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Customer%20story?hl=en'> Customer story </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Customer%20support?hl=en'> Customer support </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Customer%20testimonial?hl=en'> Customer testimonial </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/data%20centers?hl=en'> data centers </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/data%20processing%20amendment?hl=en'> data processing amendment </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/data%20protection?hl=en'> data protection </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Developer?hl=en'> Developer </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/developers?hl=en'> developers </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Digital%20Learning%20Day?hl=en'> Digital Learning Day </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Docs?hl=en'> Docs </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/documents?hl=en'> documents </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/DPA?hl=en'> DPA </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Drawings?hl=en'> Drawings </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Drive%20for%20Education?hl=en'> Drive for Education </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/drive%20sharing?hl=en'> drive sharing </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Earth?hl=en'> Earth </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/earth%20and%20maps?hl=en'> earth and maps </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/EC?hl=en'> EC </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/education?hl=en'> education </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Education%20on%20Air?hl=en'> Education on Air </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/EMC?hl=en'> EMC </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/EMM?hl=en'> EMM </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Energy?hl=en'> Energy </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/enterprise?hl=en'> enterprise </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/EU?hl=en'> EU </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/events?hl=en'> events </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/FedEx?hl=en'> FedEx </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Fedex.com?hl=en'> Fedex.com </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Finance?hl=en'> Finance </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Firebase?hl=en'> Firebase </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Forms?hl=en'> Forms </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/franchises?hl=en'> franchises </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/GAFE?hl=en'> GAFE </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gartner?hl=en'> Gartner </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/GE?hl=en'> GE </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/geo?hl=en'> geo </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Global%20Partner%20Summit?hl=en'> Global Partner Summit </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gmail?hl=en'> gmail </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google?hl=en'> Gone Google </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle?hl=en'> gonegoogle </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20AdWords?hl=en'> Google AdWords </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20App%20Engine?hl=en'> Google App Engine </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps?hl=en'> Google Apps </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Blog?hl=en'> Google Apps Blog </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20for%20Business?hl=en'> Google Apps for Business </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20for%20Education?hl=en'> Google Apps for Education </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20for%20Government?hl=en'> Google Apps for Government </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Google Apps for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Marketplace?hl=en'> Google Apps Marketplace </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Reseller?hl=en'> Google Apps Reseller </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Script?hl=en'> Google Apps Script </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Vault?hl=en'> Google Apps Vault </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20BigQuery?hl=en'> Google BigQuery </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Calendar?hl=en'> Google Calendar </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Calendar%20app?hl=en'> Google Calendar app </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Certified%20Teachers?hl=en'> Google Certified Teachers </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Chrome?hl=en'> Google Chrome </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Chromebases?hl=en'> Google Chromebases </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Classroom?hl=en'> Google Classroom </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Cloud%20Datastore?hl=en'> Google Cloud Datastore </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Cloud%20DNS?hl=en'> Google Cloud DNS </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Cloud%20Platform?hl=en'> Google Cloud Platform </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%20cloud%20storage?hl=en'> google cloud storage </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Cloud%20Vision%20API?hl=en'> Google Cloud Vision API </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%20commerce%20search?hl=en'> google commerce search </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Compute%20Engine?hl=en'> Google Compute Engine </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Doc?hl=en'> Google Doc </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Docs?hl=en'> Google Docs </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Domains?hl=en'> Google Domains </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Draw?hl=en'> Google Draw </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive?hl=en'> Google Drive </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Drive%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Google Drive for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth?hl=en'> Google Earth </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Engine?hl=en'> Google Earth Engine </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Enterprise?hl=en'> Google Earth Enterprise </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Images?hl=en'> Google Earth Images </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Pro?hl=en'> Google Earth Pro </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Email%20Security%20and%20Archiving?hl=en'> Google Email Security and Archiving </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Enterprise?hl=en'> Google Enterprise </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Enterprise%20Search?hl=en'> Google Enterprise Search </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Expeditions?hl=en'> Google Expeditions </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Education?hl=en'> Google for Education </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Education%20Partner%20Program?hl=en'> Google for Education Partner Program </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Education%20Training%20Center?hl=en'> Google for Education Training Center </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Entrepreneurs?hl=en'> Google for Entrepreneurs </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Work?hl=en'> Google for Work </a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' 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<ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/?hl=en'> January </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class='intervalToggle'> <span class='new-toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <i class='material-icons arrow'>  </i> </span> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)' style='display: none'> <span class='zippy'> <i class='material-icons'>  </i>   </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/?hl=en'> 2012 </a> </div> <div class='items'> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/12/?hl=en'> December </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' 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<ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/01/?hl=en'> January </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class='intervalToggle'> <span class='new-toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <i class='material-icons arrow'>  </i> </span> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)' style='display: none'> <span class='zippy'> <i class='material-icons'>  </i>   </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/?hl=en'> 2010 </a> </div> <div class='items'> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/12/?hl=en'> December </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/11/?hl=en'> November </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/10/?hl=en'> October </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/09/?hl=en'> September </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/08/?hl=en'> August </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <div class=''> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/07/?hl=en'> July </a> </div> <div class='items'> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate 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