Google Cloud, Airtel in Strategic Pact to Help SMBs
Starting on Monday, Airtel will offer G-Suite to various small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across India as part of its integrated ICT portfolio.
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s largest integrated telecommunications services provider, and Google Cloud on Monday announced a partnership to serve the evolving needs of millions of Indian businesses in a rapidly digitizing economy.
Starting on Monday, Airtel will offer G-Suite to various small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across India as part of its integrated ICT portfolio. Significantly, G Suite, which is a set of intelligent apps—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar and more, is actually designed with real-time collaboration and machine intelligence. They aim at bringing people together and help them work smarter and safer.
This latest agreement will provide a platform for both companies to tap growth opportunities in India, which ranks amongst the fastest growing economies and has the second-highest number of internet users in the world. Airtel serves over 2,500 large businesses and over 500,000 SMBs and technology startups across India.
Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel said that Airtel and Google Cloud have a shared vision of delighting customers with great products. India, with its growing economy and adoption of digital services, offers one of the biggest opportunities to serve customers with innovative solutions. They are pleased to further strengthen their deep relationship with Google Cloud and build products and services aimed at transforming Indian businesses, he said.
Enabling digital transformation of Indian businesses
India is currently witnessing a rapid adoption of digital services. Indian businesses are embracing digital tools and cloud-based solutions to enhance agility and efficiency, and serve the evolving requirements of their customers. As per a recent report by NASSCOM, by 2022 the Indian cloud market could cross USD7 billion and Indian Software as a Service (SaaS) market could top the USD3.5 billion mark.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud said that Indian companies are making a massive transformation to the cloud and they’re thrilled to partner with Airtel to support this transition. The combination of G Suite’s collaboration and productivity tools with Airtel’s digital business offerings will help accelerate digital innovations for thousands of Indian businesses, he said.
Interestingly, Google Cloud, at present, provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. Besides, it also offers these with expertise, to reinvent their business with data-powered innovation on modern computing infrastructure. It delivers enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies, mostly in SMB segment, operate more efficiently, modernize for growth and innovate for the future. Mind you that customers in more than 150 countries look towards Google Cloud as their trusted partner when they want to solve their most critical business problems.