Google has recently made some changes and improvements to its G-Suite. It introduces new tools designed to allow managers and admins greater visibility into how the people in their organizations use the G-Suite.
Currently, the "Work Insight" tool is available in beta and displays information on how G-Suite is deployed at the team level.
While this will be a boon to all organizations, it will be especially valuable for organizations moving from legacy tools to the G-Suite. It will also serve to shine a light on teams or individual employees who could benefit from additional training on specific applications and provide valuable information on cross-team collaborations.
Where collaboration is concerned, the thinking is that admins would be able to see, for example, how many members of a sales team are working collaboratively with the marketing department. They could also see whether that collaboration is happening via face to face meetings or via co-created documents.
In addition to the Work Insight tool, Google also announced the availability of the G-Suite Security Center, which is an investigative tool that provides admins with a dashboard they can use to monitor a variety of security metrics.
The two big advantages to the new Investigation tool are:
- It gives admins the power to scale an incident response as needed, up to and including scaling it across an entire domain
- It adds integrated remediation to the detection and prevention capabilities already available to admins in the G-Suite.
Taken together, these changes should make life much easier for both managers and admins, providing better data which can be transformed into hard-hitting business information. If you use the G-Suite at all, be sure to check out these new tools at your next available opportunity. Both are excellent additions.
