Now might be ironing a fresh set of clothes heading out to work.
That sure seems like the inspiration for Springboard, an integrated search digital assistant the company announced on its for rk blog. Springboard will be able to search across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Contacts, other data stored in your enterprise account.
But the similarity to Now is apparent in how vice president of engineering abhakar Raghavan says Springboard, “assists you throughout your workday by proactively providing useful actionable information recommendations.”
The other big reveal is a long overdue revamp to Sites.
for rk Official Blog Sites finally gets a makeover.
This service is popular in education for company use with internal pages since it’s pretty simple to throw a site together. But the tools lag behind other do-it-yourself sites like Squarespace ebly, so it’s a much needed overhaul.
l the new tools are currently to be found in ’s Early Adopter ogram. If you’re the admin of a company’s Apps for rk, you can opt in to try out Springboard Sites.
The story behind the story: Much of the focus of ’s announcements at I/O this year was about the company’s work in machine intelligence. It’s now putting some of that to use with its enterprise applications, which could give it a leg up over Microsoft as the companies battle to be the go-to productivity provider for small large businesses.
