wEquipu is driving adoption, raising awareness of the advantages, helping companies in Africa migrate to Google Workspace and offering support and cost benefits.
After a slow start some years ago, French-speaking countries across Africa are accelerating their adoption ofThis is according to Achille Kombat , co-founder of US-basedKombat says: “For years, the continent has tended to use Microsoft by default. There was a misconception that Google was simply a search engine, and those who were aware of Google Workspace capabilities had concerns about data sovereignty .
wEquipu also helps its customer IT teams to achieve the Google certifications they need to optimise and manage their environments. CRI & Partners quickly found they required more storage than they had available on the free Drive offering, and opted to move to the Google Business Starter package, with 30GB storage.
Thierry Batchassi, Google project manager at wEquipu, says CRI & Partners now depends on Google Workspace collaboration tools: “They now leverage Google Meet, Chat, Sheets and Docs, collaborating on the same invoices with comments and tracked edits. This allows them to avoid back-and-forth e-mails and version control challenges.”
Gregory MacLennan, CEO of Digicloud Africa, Google's reseller enablement partner in Africa, believes adoption will pick up in the region as the Google partner network raises awareness of the benefits of Workspace.
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