Google is giving its G Suite a design overhaul with security, collaboration and artificial intelligence enhancements.
These additions are designed to make G Suite more collaborative and address enterprise security needs. The overhaul also better integrates various G Suite apps.
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How do you get the G Suite updates? Google said the new Gmail experience will roll out to businesses today for companies in the G Suite Early Adopter Program via the admin console. Personal Gmail users can opt-in via settings and selecting "try the new Gmail."
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This overhaul is notable since G Suite is increasingly competing in a crowded collaboration, smart office and productivity space. While Microsoft Office, which is integrating Teams functions, is the obvious rival, upstarts such as Slack and Atlassian are also playing in the space. Google, however, has a strong foothold via Gmail as other rivals are trying to nuke email as a communications medium.
Add it up and G Suite is part of a big field trying to make productivity a bit easier. (See also: Survey confirms collaboration and the apps that come with it still suck | Slack engineers go head-to-head with Microsoft and Google)
Here's the rundown beyond the new look:
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Google has conducted some research to justify the G Suite ROI. Some fun facts include:
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