Enhancing Google Workspace

Once again with hybrid work in mind, Google Cloud is enhancing capabilities within Google Workspace. There are a lot of additions — a lot. If your customers are keen on making the most of their productivity tools (and they probably are), here are the key takeaways:

•        Better ability to tag and see information from partner applications using @-mentions.

•        Better ability to insert interactive information and previews from third-party apps directly into a Google Doc (initial partners on these fronts include AO Docs, Atlassian, Asana, Figma, Miro, Tableau and ZenDesk).

•        Integrations that allow collaboration (think whiteboarding) within Google Meet calls started in third-party applications such as Figma and Miro.

•        A new Meet API that lets users schedule and launch meetings directly from third-party applications.

•        Expanding Google Chat and Spaces APIs to enable more functionality between Google Chat and partners’ applications. Capabilities will include automatic creation of direct messages or group chats.

Some capabilities for the Chat and Spaces APIs are already available in the Developer Preview Program, with more APIs launching in the next few weeks.