Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Introducing Google Workspace and a new set of offerings to better meet your needs

Update

October 14, 2020: We previously stated that primary domain admins would receive more information from Google by Friday, October 16. Please note that this only applies to customers who bill directly through Google; customers who purchased G Suite from a reseller should reach out to their reseller for more information. 


What’s changing

We’re excited to announce that G Suite is now Google Workspace: everything you need to get anything done, all in one place. Google Workspace features:
  • a deeply integrated user experience that helps teams collaborate more effectively, frontline workers stay connected, and businesses power new digital customer experiences
  • a new brand identity that reflects our ambitious product vision and the way our products work together
  • new ways to get started with solutions tailored to the unique needs of our broad range of customers


As part of this, we're evolving our offerings to better serve the diverse purchasing needs of our large and expanding customer base.
  • For smaller businesses, we’re introducing tailored offerings that make it easy and cost-effective to get started with Google Workspace— including best-in-class collaboration and productivity tools, security protections, and administrative controls.
  • For larger enterprises, we’re introducing a set of offerings with additional productivity features, enterprise-grade administrative controls, and our most advanced security and compliance capabilities, available at both the team and organization level.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users


Why it’s important


Basic, Business, and Enterprise customers
As an existing G Suite Basic, Business, or Enterprise customer, you can rest assured we’ll give you the time and support needed to transition to one of these new offerings. If you purchased G Suite directly from Google, please look for an email to the primary administrator in your domain arriving no later than Friday, October 16. This email will outline the specific impact to your organization and who to contact for more info.


Education and Nonprofit customers
We are also bringing Google Workspace to our education and nonprofit customers in the coming months. Education customers can continue to access our tools via G Suite for Education, including Classroom, Assignments, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet. G Suite for Nonprofits will continue to be available to eligible organizations through the Google for Nonprofits program.


Essentials customers
G Suite Essentials will now be called Google Workspace Essentials. There are no additional changes to Essentials at this time.


Additional details

The productivity apps you know and love in G Suite aren’t going away—Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and all the others will continue to be the foundation of the Google Workspace experience. In the future, we’ll continue to evolve our products to be more flexible, more helpful, and simpler.



Getting started


Admins: Primary domain administrators who purchased G Suite directly from Google will receive an email no later than Friday, October 16. This email will outline the specific impact to your organization and who to contact for more info.

End users: End users will see the new Google Workspace name and icons reflected across our products and properties over the course of the next several weeks.


Rollout pace

  • Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: G Suite is now Google Workspace. You’ll see the new name and icons reflected across our products and properties over the course of the next several weeks.

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