Google teams up with PwC for work

Seems like there’s a lot of teaming up going on. This past week we saw Twitter announcing a relationship with IBM to provide data mining and analysis of Twitter data for enterprise clients and brands. That follows on the recent partnership of IBM and Apple via which IBM plans to build apps for iOS devices (see Apple and IBM team up to go after the enterprise together).

In other, and more work technology-oriented news, Google and PwC have announced a partnership where the global consulting organization of almost 200,000 professionals will deploy Google tools internally, and steer clients toward them as well.

The company is rolling out 45,000 Google for Work seats in the US and Australia. It’s not known what email services is being replaced, but it’s reasonable to assume Microsoft Exchange.

Along with Google for Work, Drive for Work, and related tools (like Hangouts, Docs, and so on), PwC will be developing new security monitoring algorithms on Google Cloud Platform, as well.

These moves are intended to blunt the argument made by Google’s competitors that the company is not really focused on the enterprise marketplace. Although Google has 450 full-time security engineers, however, those claims are largely sour grapes about the rapid growth of Google’s work products.

Google Drive has grown an additional 50 million users since June, since offering unlimited storage for $10/user/month (see Google releases Drive for Work: unlimited storage, $10 per month) and is now above 240 million users, for example.

Perhaps the availability of migration apps by a number of Google partners is part of the reason, with simple ways to move files from Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, and personal Google Drive accounts.

The deal isn’t exclusive so PwC and Google are free to work with other companies.

 

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