For multiple years now, Google Drive has been focused on the needs of large enterprises, because they have the most exciting and impactful problems we can solve. Enterprises are drowning in files, and there’s an immense opportunity to harness that information. Those files represent a company’s collective knowledge—every strategic plan, brainstorming note and financial plan—and with Drive, we’re giving businesses a way to find, organize, understand and act on that knowledge.

Today, we are excited to announce that we are being recognized for our progress on this journey. Google has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms (CCP).

More companies are embracing cloud solutions like Drive because of the opportunity they pose: when you make content accessible from any device, anywhere, at anytime, teams can collaborate more and become more nimble. This new way of working provides tremendous opportunity to improve productivity and innovation, but it can also increase complexity.

As an international clothing manufacturer and retailer, GANT is familiar with the challenges of running a global brand. The company employs an international creative team to create its smart, practical and stylish clothing items and requires collaboration solutions that bring their work from sketchbook to store. Says Matthew Wood, creative director at GANT, “Google Drive is a very visual and simple way of working. We can plan, manage and discuss our work in progress within one place—fabrics, styles, everything, right down to the very last stitch.”

We listened carefully to enterprise customers like GANT and we launched several new capabilities in Drive to address these new complexities. Some challenges we heard from customers like Sanmina, Whirlpool or Woolworth’s included:

• Help my teams work confidently in the cloud. To make it easier for teams of all sizes to collaborate seamlessly in the cloud, we’ve added features like Team Drives. In Team Drives, you can easily view, access and control content sharing because it’s owned collectively by your team and organized in one place.
• Give us the tools to find the information we need to get work done fast. When you’re in the middle of a project, the last thing you want to do is dig for information you need to complete it. Instead, use Quick Access in Drive to surface the files you need. Quick Access uses Google’s advanced artificial intelligence to find and suggest the most important files based on a number of work signals and patterns—saving 50 percent of the time you would spend searching for content. Less time digging means more time working on important tasks.
• Help our admins maintain the visibility and control they need. It’s important to be in control of your company data, especially as you transition to the cloud. Vault, Data Loss Prevention for Drive and many auditing enhancements make it easier for admins to meet data retention/compliance needs and prevent data breaches, like accidentally sharing a file with SSNs outside of your company.
• Make migrating from on-prem to the cloud easier for my business. You can’t afford to have work come to a standstill because of a botched migration or because new solutions aren’t compatible with existing tools. To help you migrate from on-prem, cloud or hybrid solutions, we recently integrated AppBridge, a leading enterprise-grade migration provider, into G Suite. After migration, you can use the new Drive File Stream to access all of your content in Drive from your computer without syncing delays or filling up your employees’ hard drives.

Get in touch with Google to learn more about how your business can benefit from moving to the cloud.

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