G Suite's new Work Suite tool shows adoption and collaboration rates across your organization

Google announced today two new tools for G Suite users.

According to an article by Reena Nadkarni, G Suite Group Product Manager, the company has unveiled a new tool called Work Insights, designed to help organizations better understand G Suite deployments at the team level.

In real terms, this means that employers and administrators can look into adopting G Suite within the company. It gives a quick overview of the popularity of specific applications within an organization, revealing for example that Gmail is actively used by 99% of employees, while Hangouts can only be used by 62%.

Above: adoption of the G Suite

So, what is the utility of these data, exactly? Well, adoption charts show which teams most often use which applications, and this information could be used to inform training programs. As more and more companies move to cloud-based tools like G Suite, Google obviously wants to give businesses the data they need to justify their expenses.

There are not only adoption rates, though. Work Insights can also be used to reveal collaboration models – if an employer may find that marketing and sales may not work together on documents, this may be an alarm signal that teams are not are not so consistent.

"This information can help leaders identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration and reduce the number of silos," Nadkarni said.

Above: G Suite collaboration

Work Insights is available in beta today.

In July, Google also announced a new "investigative tool" that would be part of the G Suite security center. In short, the tool is designed to help security personnel and administrators identify and manage security threats within their organization, allowing them, for example, to detect suspicious activity on their devices. access remotely if they see suspicious activity on G Suite products.

Until now, the investigation tool was only available through the G Suite Early Application Program (EAP), but from now on He is available to all users.

"The survey tool makes it easier for administrators to identify threats without having to worry about analyzing logs, which can be time consuming and requires complex scripts," Nadkarni said. "Powerful patch controls allow administrators to take action by tailoring incident response across the entire domain with just a few clicks."