Goodbye Google Apps, welcome to the “G Suite” – 01net.com

there’s a change at Google. The giant of the Web has just announced the end of Google Apps, and the birth of G On. It is now under this name that one will find all the Web apps of Google. In the same movement, the giant of the Web brings together all the professional tools under the same banner : the Google Cloud. Details.

The application suite, Google was launched a decade ago to compete with the Microsoft office suite. It included from the start of the collaborative tools like Google Docs or Sheets, a tool storage (Google Drive) as well as management tools and communication tools (Gmail, Hangouts…).

But Google does not only rename its product, it also improves with more intelligent features for it to be better armed in the face of its competitor, Office 365. The creation of files in Documents, Sheets and Slides has been facilitated. The spreadsheets are now accepting questions in natural language in order to obtain a response number, or a calculation formula by using the function Explore. The latter is also present in Google Docs and allows you to find content relevant to what is written (an image, other documents, related items on the Web…).

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Google Calendar has also been updated to facilitate the planning of meetings with a function Find a time and access to documents in Google Drive has been enhanced with Quick Access. The tool will analyze the activity of the user to propose him in the first documents he might need.

The tools G Suite are available from four euros per user per month. For this price, we can also have an e-mail in the name of his company, direct assistance, and 30 Gb of cloud storage per user.

A coherent set for all workers

The G Suite is itself a part of a new set named Google Cloud. Under this name umbrella you will find all the products for professional use : ” the Google Cloud Platform, collaboration applications and productivity (G), all of the tools and APIS, machine learning, API mapping for business along the Android phones and tablets as well as Chromebooks “.

The goal of these changes is to show that Google is open to all, including professionals, ” the self-employed to the largest global companies “, said Diane Greene, senior vice president in charge of Google Cloud computing on the blog of the company.

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