Google Ramps Up SaaS Programs, Integrations, Doles Out Awards

A co-selling program that matches Google Cloud Platform (GCP) sales experts with SaaS partners to deliver GCP-run SaaS solutions to customers.

A new program that connects Google’s customer reliability engineering (GCRE) team with SaaS partners to keep their products up and running on Google Cloud.

A new way for partners to receive marketing development funds (MDF) from Google based on how much use of GCP they drive with their SaaS products.

A new online community that facilitates partner networking, broadcasts updates from Google Cloud, and is a place where partners can share best practices with other community members.

Google’s partnership with Deloitte will to help SAP customers extend their cloud strategies into more use cases. Deloitte will offer a full suite of solutions for running SAP applications on GCP, including Deloitte invoice management solutions and the Deloitte visual-inspection system.

During the Next ’18 conference, Google will announce updates to its partnership with Cisco, including news in collaboration and AI, and a new developer challenge designed to drive innovation on hybrid solutions across the Cisco Container Platform and GCP.

Google is introducing new distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions, with the goal of drumming up customer interest in exploring ways they might use DLT frameworks on GCP with launch partners that include Digital Asset and BlockApps, and try open-source integrations for Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum later this year.

In collaboration with Intel and Appsbroker, Google will offer a new resource for high-performance cloud help. This new center of excellence will offer resources, tips and best practices to help customers migrate high-performance cloud computing workloads onto GCP.

Google is also announcing a new VMware plug-in. The VMware vRealize Orchestator allows customers to use GCP alongside their on-premises VMware environment.