The promise of the cloud has always been to offer flexibility, access and security at a scale that’s unimaginable in legacy enterprise productivity solutions. Your data and applications offer the most value when they live in a connected cloud, and when combined with Google’s machine intelligence, they offer insights that can move your business beyond productivity.

In order for Google to deliver on this cloud promise, we must not only meet enterprise companies where they are today in terms of security, compliance, and connectivity standards — but also raise the bar for what’s possible with our advanced machine intelligence capabilities. That’s why we introduced G Suite. In the past year, we’ve launched more than 300 features and updates to help customers reach their cloud potential. And today, at Google Cloud Next, we announced the next generation of our collaboration and communication tools, designed to help our customers take it to the next level:



A Google Drive tailor-made for the enterprise



tailor-made for the enterprise An evolved Hangouts purpose-built for teams: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat



and An Add-ons platform to integrate Gmail with the applications customers use every day



to integrate Gmail with the applications customers use every day @meet, a machine learning-powered bot that uses natural language to schedule meetings



Introducing Team Drives and fresh features for enterprises in Drive

Since the launch of Google Drive, we’ve focused on making it simple for people to easily store, share and access their files. With more than 800 million active users on the Drive platform, we’re thrilled to see Drive delivering on this promise. These days, we’re focused on ensuring Drive addresses the unique needs of our enterprise customers, like compliance, data security and file ownership when teams change.

Today, we announced key enhancements in Drive to do just that:

