Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Lead, Google Workspace Platform
For tens of millions of our prospects, 2022 introduced an abundance of change in the way in which they join, collaborate, and get issues executed. Frontline staff at prospects like Globe Telecom and basic contractor BHI benefited from digital transformation on all fronts by shortly getting the apps they wanted to do their jobs within the area. Workplace and distant staff, in the meantime, adjusted to hybrid work by leveraging ready-made instruments from companions like DocuSign and Asana or they constructed customized desk reserving purposes.
2022 was additionally a 12 months of progress. Google Workspace now has greater than 3 billion customers and over 8 million paying prospects throughout the globe. And the Google Workspace Market handed a lifetime milestone of driving greater than 5 billion app installs. To wrap up a 12 months marked by a lot change, we’ve recapped among the greatest updates that make Google Workspace essentially the most open and extensible platform for customers, prospects, and builders alike.
1. Construct software program with extra agility with our DevOps integrations
Google Workspace provides you real-time visibility into challenge progress and selections that will help you ship high quality code quick and keep linked together with your stakeholders, all with out switching instruments and tabs. By leveraging built-in purposes from our companions, you may pull beneficial data out of silos, making collaborating on necessities docs, code opinions, bug triage, deployment updates, and monitoring operations simple for the entire crew. This 12 months we partnered with standard DevOps instruments that will help you do your job higher:
- Asana: Plan and execute collectively, with Asana integrations you may coordinate and handle every thing from each day duties to cross-functional strategic initiatives.
- GitHub: Groups can shortly push new commits, make pull requests, do code opinions, and supply real-time suggestions that improves the standard of their code—all from Google Chat.
- Jira: Speed up all the QA course of within the improvement workflow. The Jira for Google Chat app acts as a crew member within the dialog, sending new points and contextual updates as they’re reported to enhance the standard of your code and maintain everybody knowledgeable in your Jira initiatives.
- PagerDuty: Allows builders, DevOps, IT operations, and enterprise leaders to forestall and resolve business-impacting incidents for an distinctive buyer expertise—all from Google Chat.
2. Apply to our Developer Preview Program: get early entry to imminent platform options
This 12 months we launched the Google Workspace Developer Preview program to get you entry to the brand new APIs and keep in contact with the most recent updates on the Google Workspace platform. Options in developer preview have already accomplished early improvement phases, so that they’re prepared for implementation. This program provides you the prospect to form the ultimate phases of characteristic improvement with suggestions, get pre-release assist, and have your integration prepared for public use on launch day. Apply to the Developer Preview Program at the moment.
For Google Chat this 12 months we introduced that you might programmatically create new areas and add members on behalf of customers through the Google Chat API. These newest additions to the Chat API unlock some sought-after situations for builders in search of new methods to increase Chat. For instance, PagerDuty leveraged the API as a part of their PagerDuty for Google Chat app. The app permits the incident crew to isolate and deal with the issue at hand with out being distracted by having to arrange a brand new area, or additional distract any people within the present area who aren’t part of the decision crew for a particular incident. All of this might be executed seamlessly by means of PagerDuty for Chat as a part of the pure movement of working with Google Chat.
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| PagerDuty for Google Chat retains the enterprise updated on service-impacting incidents. |
We’re including performance to Chat apps so builders can quickly add widgets like a date time picker, or design their structure with a number of columns to make higher use of area. We consider these new structure choices will open extra methods for builders to construct partaking apps for customers. To assist customers discover and study extra about apps we’ve added “About pages” for apps and making apps discoverable within the compose bar in Chat. Apply to our Developer Preview Program to get early entry to the Google Chat APIs.
We additionally introduced new performance for app builders to leverage the Google Meet video conferencing product by means of our new Meet Stay Sharing API. Customers can now come collectively and share experiences with one another inside an app, corresponding to streaming a TV present, queuing up movies to observe on YouTube, collaborating on a music playlist, becoming a member of in a dance occasion, or understanding collectively although Google Meet. If you wish to check out the APIs, you may apply for entry by means of the Developer Preview Program.
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| Miro for Google Meet makes use of the brand new Meet APIs for an built-in expertise inside Meet. |
3. Join your prospects with essential data with Sensible Chips for Google Docs
We expanded good chips to our ecosystem of companions, permitting our customers so as to add much more wealthy information, extra context, and significant data proper into the movement of their work. With these new third-party good chips, it is possible for you to to tag and see essential data from accomplice purposes utilizing @-mentions, and simply insert interactive data and previews from third-party apps instantly right into a Google Doc. A number of of our companions, together with AO Docs, Atlassian, Asana, Figma, Miro, Tableau, and ZenDesk, at the moment are creating third-party good chips so as to add extra worth to your Google Docs expertise. Sensible chips might be accessible to builders to construct out their app integrations in 2023.
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| Sensible Chips might be accessible to third-party builders in 2023. |
4. Develop your enterprise with the Beneficial for Google Workspace program
Annually, we consider the apps on Google Workspace Market and suggest a choose quantity which might be enhancing the Google Workspace expertise and serving to individuals work in highly effective new methods. Every undergoes opinions by each Google and an impartial third-party safety agency to make sure they meet our highest requirements of integration and safety necessities. For 2022 right here’s the number of Beneficial for Google Workspace: AODocs, Copper, Dialpad, DocuSign, LumApps, Mailmeteor, Miro, RingCentral, Sheetgo, Signeasy, Supermetrics, and But One other Mail Merge. Our software for Beneficial for Google Workspace is now open, apply at the moment.
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| Turn out to be an app Beneficial for Google Workspace for 2023, apply at the moment. |
5. Handle Google Workspace APIs with ease
We not too long ago added a unified option to entry Google Workspace APIs by means of the Google Cloud Console—APIs for Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Chat, Slides, Calendar, and lots of extra. From there, you now have a central location to handle all of your Google Workspace APIs and think about the entire aggregated metrics for the API in use. Watch this how-to video to get began.
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| Builders can now handle their Google Workspace APIs from throughout the Google Cloud Console. |
6. Create surveys, questionnaires, and quizzes and consider the outcomes programmatically
The brand new Google Varieties API joins the big household of APIs accessible to builders beneath Google Workspace. The Varieties API offers programmatic entry for managing types, appearing on responses, and empowering builders to construct highly effective integrations on high of Varieties. Watch this introduction to the Google Varieties API to get began.
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| The brand new Google Varieties API means that you can programmatically create and handle Varieties. |
7. Construct clever enterprise apps with No-Code and Low-Code
Google Apps Script is a low-code, cloud primarily based JavaScript improvement atmosphere for Google Workspace that makes it simple for anybody to construct customized enterprise options throughout a number of Google merchandise. This 12 months we accomplished the updates for our new IDE v2, providing a extra trendy and simplified improvement expertise which makes it faster and simpler to construct options that make Google Workspace apps extra helpful in your group.
If you’re new to Apps Script, determining the place to start generally is a hurdle, this 12 months we launched 10 new pattern options that will help you get began to deliver our quantity to greater than 30! From information evaluation to automated emails, you’ll discover pattern options to get you began shortly.
AppSheet is Google’s platform for constructing no-code customized apps and workflows to automate enterprise processes. It lets app creators construct and deploy end-to-end apps and automations with out writing code.
The brand new Apps Script connector for AppSheet, launched this 12 months, ties every thing collectively: AppSheet, Apps Script, Google Workspace, and Google Workspace’s many developer APIs. This integration lets no-code app builders utilizing AppSheet tremendously lengthen the capabilities of their no-code apps by permitting them to name and move information to Apps Script capabilities. A method to consider this integration is that it bridges no-code (AppSheet) with low-code (Apps Script).
AppSheet databases, introduced in preview this 12 months, is a built-in database for skilled and citizen builders to simply and securely handle their information. AppSheet databases will give customers entry to a simple to make use of, first occasion database for creating and managing information. Get began and check out AppSheet for free.
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| AppSheet databases at the moment are accessible in preview. |
8. Be taught to construct wonderful options on our YouTube channel
This 12 months, we launched our devoted YouTube channel for Google Workspace Builders. The channel serves as an ever-growing assortment of our most useful movies, permitting builders of all talent ranges and pursuits to find out about constructing options with Google Workspace.
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| Our new YouTube channel for Google Workspace builders has dozens of how-to movies for you. |
9. Join with Cloud specialists and neighborhood as a Google Cloud Innovator
Group constructing is likely one of the best methods to assist builders, which is why we created Google Cloud Innovators.This new neighborhood program was designed for builders and technical practitioners utilizing Google Cloud and everyone seems to be welcome. In 2022, we kicked off the inaugural Innovators Hive, a stay, interactive, and digital occasion for our world Innovators neighborhood. Hive provided wealthy technical content material offered by Champion Innovators and Google engineering leaders. Turn out to be a Google Cloud Innovator at the moment.
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| The Google Cloud Innovators program is open to all ranges of creators and builders. |
10. Combine and lengthen Google Workspace: high classes from Google I/O
Be taught in regards to the newest improvements and uncover how builders can combine and lengthen Google Workspace. Listed here are just a few of my favourite classes from I/O:
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11. Construct the way forward for work: high classes from Google Cloud Subsequent
Watch on-demand movies from our greatest Cloud occasion of the 12 months and study from product specialists and companions to degree up your abilities.
12. Interact with the Google Workspace crew and ecosystem at our Developer Summits
We additionally had our inaugural Google Workspace Developer Summit collection happen in Paris and London. It was an incredible time assembly builders and IT groups from prospects and companions that attended from all through the EMEA area. Be careful for a summit close to you in 2023 to study extra in regards to the newest improvement options for Google Workspace from our Developer Advocates and construct connections with the developer neighborhood, subscribe to our e-newsletter to get notified.
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| Builders collect at Google Paris for the Google Workspace Developer Summit. |
2022 Wrap-up
We’re grateful to you in serving to make 2022 an awesome 12 months for the Google Workspace developer neighborhood. We look ahead to saying extra improvements and having extra conversations with you in 2023. To maintain observe of all the most recent bulletins and developer updates for Google Workspace please subscribe to our month-to-month e-newsletter. Comfortable holidays and a peaceable New 12 months!
