Google unveiled powerful new tools for enterprise customers, aiming to enhance its services for business.
The new Springboard is the most notable, arriving as a neat digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence, designed to help enterprises maximize the potential of Google's business services.
Google points out that it has extensive expertise in helping business customers organize their corporate information. The company has been a top player in Enterprise Search for more than a decade and forged partnerships with some of the world's largest companies.
"As we continue to invest in applying technologies like machine intelligence to power our web search engine, we're working on a new way to bring all of this power to the enterprise: Google Springboard," says the company.
Google has been testing the AI-powered Springboard assistant with "a small set of customers" and is now ready to roll it out to a larger audience. The tool is somewhat like Google Now for business, offering a single search interface that leverages the power of AI to deliver information within one's Google products suite such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Calendar and others such.
According to Google, Springboard is designed to help you find what you need when you need it, and it also assists the user by offering relevant and actionable information, as well as various recommendations. Instead of having to search and gather information, the user can simply rely on Springboard to do it for them.
The second announcement, meanwhile, refers to a new design for Google Sites. Google says the product is now "totally rebuilt" and it sounds better than ever, serving as a one-stop-shop for information such as newsletters, quarterly reports and other such internal company data.
Google Sites now boasts drag and drop functionality, real-time collaboration, creation features and better optimization so that the content now fits any type of screen regardless of size, whether it's a huge monitor, a tablet or a smartphone.
