Google has made public that Squarespace and WordPress.com are the newest companies to come on board with the Google for Work Partner Program, which will translate to both content management systems now providing the integration with the Google Apps for Work suite: Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, Google+, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, Sites, Admin and Vault.
Squarespace and WordPress.com open source users will now have ability to setup a custom business email through Gmail, host video meetings over Hangouts, schedule tasks using Calendar, store files through Drive and complete other tasks easily using the Google Apps suite, and through a single sign-up process.
Google states that a set of APIs allowed for the two companies to effortlessly integrate Apps for Work as part of their companies with minimal effort, while Squarespace is marketing to their users that they are making available a service they have been using inside their company for an ongoing basis to their users.
Per the Google for Work blog:
These partners also enjoy the benefits firsthand in their own businesses — as they’ve witnessed how the tools motivate teamwork, enhance communication and allow employees to integrate their work with their personal lives — anytime, anywhere, and on any device. “We’re huge proponents of giving our customers access to the services that we use ourselves to run our own business,” said Anthony Casalena, Squarespace’s founder and CEO. “We’ve been using Google Apps since we were a small team, and we continue to use those same tools to power 390 employees.”
Squarespace has incorporated a new page to its site promoting this Google Apps integration; and WordPress recently published a support section for adding and managing Google Apps on websites.
