From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data migrations to aligning, there are a lot of steps involved in bringing Google Workspace under one, central umbrella. During a merger or acquisition—when companies are most likely to be doing…

All public clouds offer flexible computing, networking and storage. And you’re likely using at least one public cloud, if not two or more. But if you’re thinking about moving some of your mission-critical applications to the cloud—such as SAP or…

  Every year, tens of thousands of IT professionals and executives visit Pythian’s blog to tap into our team’s deep expertise and experience. As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to highlight a few of our reader’s favourites over…

In our previous post, we discussed value measures, both absolute and relative and their ability to help leaders communicate the impact of data strategy investments. By assessing both value types while defining our data strategy, we create a compelling picture…

A merger, acquisition or divestiture is a major change. And change is hard. If your company is going through a transition, do you know whether your enterprise applications are going to or coming from Google Workspace? Without the proper change…

Migrating a workload to the cloud isn’t the same thing as modernizing that workload. After all, a lift-and-shift to a public cloud is essentially a change of address—you’re simply moving the workload from one place to another. Modernization, on the…

Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets and Slides, your employees have everything they need to work effectively. But as a Google Workspace admin, your job is keeping the environment secure…

In our previous conversation, we explored how to decompose our data strategy work into actionable workstreams. Each workstream enables the identification of an executive sponsor, our definition of a minimum viable product and dependencies with other workstreams. Now, we explore…

Your organization might be migrating workloads to the cloud for scale, agility or cost efficiencies. But whether you’re ‘lifting and shifting’ a workload to the cloud, or ‘improving and moving’ by optimizing that workload before you move it, migration should…

In our previous post, we discussed the positive effect our data strategy creation has on the ideation of use cases that will accelerate the use of data across the organization. Our ability to prioritize these good ideas based on their…