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Helping organizations solve for COVID-19 challenges
From video conferencing to virtual agents to remote work security, Google Cloud is committed to providing organizations tools they need to keep moving forward during this unprecedented time. Below are cross-industry and industry-speci c resources that can be used to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tools for a new normal
The impact of COVID-19 creates new challenges, and for many of us, requires that we adopt new ways of working. Google Cloud is here to help you stay connected and get work done safely and securely. See a selection of resources below, as part of our Business Continuity (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/business-continuity), Operational E ciency (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/operational-e ciency) and Innovation (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/business-innovation) offerings.
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Solving for business continuity
Gain insights into new customer behaviors
Platforms like BigQuery (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) can help drive insights and actions faster as consumer behavior shifts. Data warehouse modernization (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/data-warehouse-modernization) can allow you to analyze large quantities of data to drive insights and actions faster with capabilities like in-stream analytics.
Take a free assessment (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/dw-maturity-19/dl-cd.html) of your data warehouse’s maturity.
Respond rapidly to customer concerns
Give customers the answers they need right away in chat, social, text, and over the phone with a customized virtual agent. Contact Center AI’s Rapid Response Virtual Agent (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/covid19-rapid-response) program is designed to help government agencies, healthcare organizations, nonpro ts, and businesses impacted by COVID-19.
Accelerate time to market with no-code
Quickly spin up apps to manage remote teams, workforce health, donations, distributing supplies, and more with AppSheet’s no-code platform (https://www.appsheet.com/). Use our COVID-19 Support Guide (https://solutions.appsheet.com/appsheet-covid-19-support-guide-free-deployment/) as a resource for automating processes in the new normal.
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Keeping our cloud up and running
We are taking measures to keep our systems up and running, so you can stay focused on your business. Learn how we’re supporting you (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-clouds-coronavirus- response) through COVID-19.
Reduce downtime with disaster recovery planning
Our Disaster Recovery planning guide (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/dr-scenarios-planning-guide) for existing and new enterprise workloads, including disaster recovery building blocks, and scenarios for data and applications.
Get Google Cloud training at no cost
In this time of transition to home working, we want to empower you to build new skills on cloud technology. Register to receive special offers (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/training-discount/register.html) on Google Cloud training.
Solving for remote work
Work and telecommute from anywhere
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G Suite makes it easy to get things done from anywhere with secure video meetings (https://meet.google.com/), chat, and document collaboration apps. See how Gmail (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/protecting-against-cyber-threats- during-covid-19-and-beyond) is protecting businesses against cyber threats during COVID-19 and beyond.
Work remotely (https://gsuite.google.com/working-remotely/) with G Suite.
Stay connected with free video conferencing
Get free and secure video conferencing (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-businesses-and-schools-stay- connected-in-response-to-coronavirus) with any Google account. G Suite customers can access advanced Meet video conferencing features at no cost through September 30, 2020.
Empower a remote workforce with Chrome Enterprise
Chrome Enterprise (https://cloud.google.com/chrome-enterprise/remotework) is a modern, secure solution that empowers remote workers to be productive working from home while keeping devices secure and allowing IT to manage devices remotely.
Securely scale your remote workforce
Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks are partnering together to help enterprises securely scale their remote workforce (https://cloud.google.com/palo-alto-networks) with Prisma Access on Google Cloud.
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Let teams use work apps from anywhere
Provide secure remote access to internal web apps through Google’s global network with BeyondCorp Remote Access (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/beyondcorp-remote-access). Give employees access to work apps from virtually any device, anywhere, without a remote-access VPN. Read more on our blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/keep-your-teams-working-safely- with-beyondcorp-remote-access) .
Easily connect your on-premises networks to Google
Extend on-premises connectivity to cloud resources with Google Hybrid Connectivity options (https://cloud.google.com/hybrid-connectivity) like Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN. Learn how to build a virtual workstation (https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/build-virtual-workstation/) with this Cloud OnAir tutorial.
Enable remote workers (https://cloud.google.com/chrome-enterprise/remotework) with Chrome Enterprise.
Solving for operational e ciency
Five best practices for optimizing costs
Get ve best practices (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs)
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to help you rightsize your cloud costs to the needs of your business, so you can get through these challenging, unpredictable times.
Request a custom strategy to reduce IT costs
Learn ways to reduce and optimize your IT spend for immediate and long term growth. Request an assessment (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/cost-optimization/dl-cd.html)to drive more value with your IT spend.
Estimate migration costs with a free assessment
Get an inventory of your infrastructure, a total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/tco-assessment-19/form.html), and more from Google Cloud and our partners.
12 solutions to drive agility and higher return
Explore 12 solutions (http://services.google.com/fh/ les/blogs/operational_e ciency_whitepaper.pdf) to improve decision-making, reduce TCO and boost productivity. For example, lower your TCO by 26% to 34% with BigQuery (http://services.google.com/fh/gumdrop/preview/blogs/esg_economic_validation_google_bigqu ery_vs_cloud-based-edws-september_2019.pdf) , while cutting analyst workload by 70% with Looker (https://looker.com/solutions/google-bigquery? utm_source=outbound_sdr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7012R000001JIYt&utm_term= noram&utm_content=looker.and.bigquery)
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. Migrate Oracle workloads to achieve up to 78% TCO savings (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/esg-report-19/dl-cd.html).
Reduce time spent on pla orm management by 40-55%
Read Forrester: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Anthos (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/anthos/4-ways-anthos-delivers-roi-to-customers) on the projected business bene ts and cost savings enabled by Anthos. This report was created to help application platform operators, developers, and security professionals.
G Suite cost calculator
Get a personalized report (https://gsuitecalculator.withgoogle.com/) powered by Forrester Consulting showing how G Suite can make your teams more agile, improve security, and grow revenue.
Healthcare and life sciences
Navigate the COVID-19 pandemic with virtual care solutions, public health datasets, and other tools designed for healthcare organizations and researchers. Visit our COVID-19 healthcare industry tools and resources page (https://cloud.google.com/covid19-healthcare) to learn more.
Vi ual care and telehealth
Support your patients remotely—protecting caregiver and patient safety—by offering take-home devices, monitoring health digitally, and setting up virtual visits with G
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Suite (https://gsuite.google.com/industries/healthcare/).
Healthcare data interoperability
Protect patient privacy while de-identifying data and making it interoperable for use in COVID-19-related research and for population health with the Cloud Healthcare API (https://cloud.google.com/healthcare).
National Response Po al
Together with HCA Healthcare and SADA, we have developed the COVID-19 National Response Portal (https://onboarding.nationalresponseportal.com/), enabling healthcare providers to safely share anonymous data to develop a real-time view of the COVID- 19 pandemic.
High-demand public datasets
We’re helping healthcare organizations study COVID-19 with a pre-hosted repository of public healthcare datasets (https://console.cloud.google.com/healthcare/marketplace? lter=solution- type:dataset& lter=category:health&subtask=browse) . Local providers and emergency planners can also apply Looker’s pre-built analyses and dashboards (https://covid19response.cloud.looker.com/embed/dashboards-next/1?Region=&Country=) to these datasets.
Data-driven COVID-19 models
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Researchers have turned to Google Cloud Life Sciences (https://cloud.google.com/life-sciences) to help accelerate research programs, including studying how social distancing and travel restrictions (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32213647) affect COVID-19 transmission.
Open and shareable information for data scientists
The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/brie ngs-statements/call-action-tech-community-new-machine- readable-covid-19-dataset/) and a coalition of leading research groups have gathered more than 44,000 COVID- 19-related scholarly articles on Google Cloud’s Kaggle data science community (https://www.kaggle.com/covid19/).
Retail
Adapt to unprecedented changes in buying behavior, gain operational agility, and accelerate cost reduction with AI/ML-powered solutions built for retail.
Cloud migration for cost management
Accelerate your cloud migration (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migration-center) to cut xed costs, reduce overhead, and modernize infrastructure. Our teams can help at every step of your migration journey to Google Cloud.
Remote workforce enablement with G Suite
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Keep employees connected during these challenging times with our suite of collaboration apps (https://gsuite.google.com/working-remotely/). G Suite lets teams video conference, chat, email, and work in shared documents from anywhere.
COVID-19–related ecommerce capacity management
Increase ecommerce reliability (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/peak-performance-how-retailers-used- google-cloud-during-black-friday-cyber-monday) during drastic spikes in buying. Google Cloud’s support programs for peak demand times like BFCM are helping during COVID-19, allowing you to focus on your business while we manage capacity.
Ecommerce modernization to aid o ine to online
Move legacy ecommerce systems (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/retail/omnichannel-commerce) to a containerized architecture that gives you agility in a uctuating market. Google Cloud offers engineering support, training, and more during this transition.
Demand forecasting and inventory management
Forecast shifts in consumer spending with AI and machine learning from Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/retail/merchandising-and-assortment). Get the insights you need to enable merchandising planners to manage current inventory and improve planning.
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Retail-speci c Looker analytics tools
Optimize store operations, increase retail margins, and improve customer lifetime value with insights from your data. Google Cloud and Looker (https://looker.com/solutions/ecommerce/) can offer data models and analytics pre-built for retail.
Government
Maintain continuity of operations, deliver essential services, and use critical data to inform policy decision-making to support your constituents.
Remote working and telehealth
Google Meet (https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/) enables employees to safely connect through high-quality virtual video calls and messaging to collaborate and get work done.
Social safety net
Google Cloud capabilities are being applied to help essential government programs deliver quality service for traditional and unplanned Pandemic Unemployment Assistance during unprecedented increases in demand.
Emergency management tracking
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City and county health and community resource information (https://datastudio.google.com/c/u/0/reporting/1ddB1kq5h6QjTk77HltHKnho8GHnvk85e/pag e/plbIB) is in rapid implementation for real-time and accurate citizen communication, Q&A, and recommended care.
Disease monitoring and control
Enable public health professionals to ingest data, understand risk, and inform policies and containment strategies.Learn about technology solutions (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mtx-implements-mission-critical-technology- solutions-for-state-governments-covid-19-emergency-response-programs-301029153.html) for State Governments' COVID-19 Emergency Response Programs.
Rapid Response Vi ual Agent program
Deploy virtual agents (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/covid19-rapid-response) across multiple channels to handle increased demand for questions and support related to COVID-19. Quickly disseminate information to your constituents across voice, chat, and social channels.
Public health critical asset management
Quickly get assets like beds, ventilators, masks, and gloves to the right place with rapid data collection and integration, analytics, and predictions with this sample app (https://www.appsheet.com/samples?appGuidString=77ef54b6-3fcb-4c17-bb99- d861572a2b59) that you can copy and make your own.
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Financial Services
Adapt to customer and market landscape changes due to COVID-19 with lending AI, cost- effective computing resources, and other solutions built for nance. Read more on our blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ nancial-services/business-continuity-planning-and-resilience-in- nancial-services-during-covid-19-and-beyond) .
Paycheck Protection Program Lending AI Solution
With the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Lending AI Solution (https://services.google.com/fh/ les/misc/ppp_lending_ai_solution.pdf), lenders can easily and securely integrate underwriting components into their lending systems, allowing them to accelerate process automation and handle the massive volume increase in loan applications.
Rapid Response Vi ual Agent program
The Rapid Response Virtual Agent (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/covid19-rapid-response) program enables nancial services rms to quickly build and implement a customized Contact Center AI (CCAI) virtual agent to respond to frequently asked questions your customers have related to COVID-19 over chat, voice, and social channels.
High pe ormance compute burst capacity
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Help support business processes that require additional compute capacity (https://services.google.com/fh/ les/misc/burst_capacity_solution.pdf) and analytics capabilities due to increased demand. Enable remote working capabilities while extending secure and reliable access to applications and systems—without incurring signi cant capital investments.
Video conferencing with Google Meet
Empower a remote workforce to work digitally and safely develop client relationships with video conferencing from Google (https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/). Host virtual advisory services such as nancial planning and support video brokerage for policies such as life insurance.
Accelerate liquidity calculations and analysis
Speed liquidity reporting and calculations in response to changing nancial markets with Google Cloud’s e cient data management (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/ nancial-services/retail-banking#section-2). From customer-managed encryption keys to stress testing, Google Cloud can enhance security, compliance, and governance capabilities at nancial service institutions.
Education
Teach, learn, and work remotely with solutions designed to help educators and students keep the school year going during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Remote working and learning
Enable online meetings and learning and bring old devices back to life. We’ve made advanced features (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-businesses-and-schools-stay- connected-in-response-to-coronavirus) in Google Meet available to schools (https://support.google.com/a/answer/9784550) worldwide via G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise Education. Until 9/30/2020, users of G Suite for Education can use these features at no added cost.
Distance learning resources
Support teachers, students, and guardians during school closures with distance learning resources (https://edu.google.com/latest-news/covid-19-support-resources/? modal_active=none&topic=view-all) including Teach from Home (https://teachfromhome.google/intl/en/), in partnership with UNESCO, a central hub of information, tips, and training tools to help educators keep reaching students.
Rapid Response Vi ual Agent program
Reach your students, faculty, and staff with timely and accurate information via a rapid response virtual assistant (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/covid19-rapid-response). The Agent is pre-trained with COVID-19 FAQs, so students, faculty, and staff receive immediate, conversational answers to general questions related to COVID-19.
Inform decision making with analytics and metrics
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Track essential data and get real-time reporting to help you respond more effectively and support decisions. Gain insights on recruiting, enrollment, and student engagement. Get in touch (https://edu.google.com/contact/).
Helping academic research
We are mobilizing $20 million in Google Cloud credits (https://edu.google.com/programs/credits/research/?modal_active=none) to help researchers in their ght against COVID-19. To make data more widely available and accessible for researchers, we launched the COVID-19 Public Dataset Program (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/free-public-datasets-for-covid19) which enables free querying of COVID-19 related datasets in BigQuery.
Publish impo ant updates to Google Search
Colleges and universities can create Google Posts (https://posts.withgoogle.com/) to publish time-sensitive COVID-19 updates, such as school closures and event cancellations, via Google Search. Users may be able to nd this information in the knowledge panel when they search for the institution name.
Media, ente ainment, and gaming
Scale for spikes in consumption due to COVID-19, broadcast anywhere, and enable remote workstations with solutions built for media and entertainment.
Enable remote work with vi ual workstations
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Connect your content production and game development teams to high-powered, exible, globally available applications or virtual workstations (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/creating-a-virtual-workstation) on Google Cloud.
Keep broadcasting with Google Meet
Keep your shows on the air and broadcast from anywhere using Google Meet (https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/).
Deliver content globally
Provide fast and reliable streaming experiences while handling spikes in consumption, with our globally distributed infrastructure (https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure), connected by a private, software-de ned network.
Manufacturing
Enable physical distancing, touchless interactions, enhanced visual inspection, and more with solutions built for manufacturing.
Ensure safety conformance with AI
Check for safety conformance from workers and provide corrective measures in real time using Vision AI visual inspection (https://cloud.google.com/vision). Inspect for adherence to eyewear, hard hat, and physical distancing mandates to reduce risks.
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Reduce risk with touchless interactions
Use Google Assistant (https://assistant.google.com/) to control building systems and interact with machinery with voice commands. Reduce the contamination risk associated with touching switches, keyboards, and screens.
Enable workers to collaborate safely and remotely
Leverage collaboration tools like Google Meet to host and participate in virtual stand- up meetings, onboarding, and training (https://gsuite.google.com/working-remotely/). Virtually collaborate during daily kickoffs, LEAN initiatives, and IT agile meetings.
Use AI to visually inspect production processes
Detect quality and conformance conditions without in-person attendance 24/7. Regularly increase inspection accuracy over time with machine learning (ML).
Monitor machines from anywhere
Free workers from repetitive processes and re-assign workers to distanced stations. Remotely monitor machines anywhere in the world and gain insights in performance and dashboard views.
Optimize IT resources and reduce costs
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Strengthen nancials with cost-savings from modernizing infrastructure and reducing IT cost. We can work with you to build a proposal for reducing costs while accounting for the needs of your organization.
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