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Takeaways:
- With real-time collaboration via Google Workspace, cross-border collaboration remains efficient and productive even during the COVID-19 crisis.
As part of Google Cloud, Google Workspace delivers higher security as well as lower maintenance and licensing costs.
- As a digitization partner, Wabion supported Koenig & Bauer in switching to Google Workspace and helped ensure that the new solution was embraced by the employees.
Koenig & Bauer is the world’s oldest printing press manufacturer and aims to help its customers succeed, from small print shops to major packaging corporations. To that end, the 203-year-old company with 5800 employees around the globe creates tailor-made products coupling tradition with innovation.
How to maintain the innovative spirit?
With teams from different locations and without a fully integrated real-time collaboration solution , the previous processes were not supporting Koenig & Bauer’s dynamic approach to work. As a result, the company turned to Google Cloud and Wabion to learn about the collaboration and productivity solutions of Google Workspace.
“What sets Koenig & Bauer apart is how proactive we are in helping our customers to make the most of our products so they can be more successful in their own businesses. To do that and keep our innovative spirit going, we needed better tools for communicating, sharing ideas, and working closely across factories, offices, and subsidiaries everyday.”
Jürgen Tuffentsammer
CIO, Koenig & Bauer
Innovation through the integration of Google Workspace
Koenig & Bauer’s IT team looked closely at how Google Workspace works and enables real-time collaboration without the need for additional hardware. At the end of the in-depth evaluation, Koenig & Bauer came to the conclusion that they had found the right solution.
“We learned about Google Workspace and what it could do for us during our first ever meeting with the Google Cloud team, alongside our digitalization partner Wabion. We were very impressed. A heterogeneous infrastructure makes collaboration more challenging. Google Workspace helps us to standardize our communication practices and integrate all our different teams from different places in the cloud using just a web browser.”
Andreas Murr
Senior Manager for IT Services and Operations, Koenig & Bauer
Refining and specifying Google’s best practices for the particular needs of every customer, Wabion has successfully assisted companies such as TX Group, Kaeser Kompressoren, Conrad and Ferrum in their migration to Google Workspace. Before Koenig & Bauer embarked on a company-wide migration journey to Google Workspace, Wabion’s technology and change management expertise also ensured that end users across the organization were appropriately supported and prepared to not only change their work tools (Gmail, Google Meet, Google Drive etc.), but also their work practices.
Wabion’s tailor-made method for Google Workspace migration: The right mix of project management competence, technical expertise and change management know-how is crucial for a successful Google Workspace migration. With this set of skills, Wabion guides its customers to the next levels in their digital transformation. In doing so, Wabion brings in its comprehensive Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise for the seamless integration of Google Workspace with other GCP offers such as Firebase, or BigQuery.
Seamless collaboration despite Physical Distancing
After a short early adopter phase with 400 users across different business units, the solution went live for two-thirds of all global employees. After a couple of months, the migration was 90% complete. The timely and smooth implementation of Google Workspace just two months before the lockdown measures due to COVID-19 helped the Koenig & Bauer staff adjust to working from home quickly. Benefitting from the protections that Google Cloud built and uses itself, Google Workspace also proved to be a powerful tool to connect with customers during business-critical processes such as demonstrating a product via videoconferencing or signing a new contract virtually.
“With Google Workspace, we’re equipped to collaborate closely across different offices without spending hours on the road, and to stay connected with our customers regardless of physical distance. We’ve innovated the way we work. Next, we’re looking at how we can use Google Cloud in combination with our SAP systems to modernize our infrastructure with a hybrid, flexible environment. Exciting times ahead.”
Jürgen Tuffentsammer
CIO, Koenig & Bauer
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