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With smart canvas, Google looks to better connect Workspace apps
Google has unveiled a range of new ways to connect its productivity and collaboration apps, including the rollout of its smart canvas. But is it enough to keep up with innovative start-ups?
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Google is adding a range of “smart canvas” features to its Workspace productivity software suite, offering news ways to connect and share contextual information between apps such as Docs and Sheets.
Rather than introducing entirely new products, the Workspace smart canvas features are pitched as a “new product experience” that updates existing apps with improved collaboration functions. With smart canvas, we re bringing the content and connections that transform collaboration into a richer, better experience in Google Workspace,” Erika Trautman, director for Google Workspace, said ahead of the Google I/O conference this week. “We re enhancing the apps that hundreds of millions of people already use every day like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, to make them more flexible, interactive and intelligent.”
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The company is focusing on the future of work with a new tool called smart canvas coming to Google Workspace.
Google’s virtual I/O conference kicked off yesterday (18 May) and CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a host of new product developments during his keynote speech. These included a new language model for dialogue applications, more detailed and tailored Google Maps, and a range of new Google Workspace features.
The company is grouping its new workspace features under an umbrella called smart canvas. As TechCrunch describes it, “Smart canvas ‘smushes’ Docs, productivity and video calls together”.
By siliconindia | Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 04:34 Hrs Google on Tuesday launched nearly a dozen updates to make collaboration more seamless in the remote work and learning era amid the pandemic. You can now present your content to a Google Meet call on the web directly from the Doc, Sheet, or Slide where you re already working with your team. In the fall, we re bringing Meet directly to Docs, Sheets, and Slides on the web, so people can actually see and hear each other while they re collaborating, said Erika Trautman, Director, Google Workspace, on the first day of the virtual Google I/O developer conference.