Migrating Your Data To Google Workspace

 

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A Guide for Enterprise CIOs
Migrating your data to Google Workspace

See how enterprise IT leaders modernize their infrastructure, cut licensing overhead and move data up to 5x faster with Google Workspace’s cloud-native migration tools.

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An executive guide to planning, executing and sustaining an enterprise move to Google Workspace.

  • Google’s three-phase approach, from core IT to global go-live
  • How Migration Planner and Data Import cover Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams
  • How Office Editing Mode and Meet interoperability keep teams productive
  • Customer stories from Colgate-Palmolive, Equifax, Humana and LifeCell

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Why CIOs are moving

Modernize your productivity suite without disruption, data loss or hidden infrastructure costs.

Faced with rising licensing fees, vendor lock-in and ineffective AI copilots, forward-looking CIOs are turning to Google Workspace. Switching can deliver up to 336% ROI, a 50% reduction in help desk tickets and 30% improved efficiency on collaborative work.

This guide details Workspace’s cloud-native migration approach: the new data import tool, the Migration Planner and interoperability enhancements across Workspace apps. It removes third-party migration tools and hidden infrastructure fees, and keeps broad interoperability with Microsoft Office.

With a structured approach, proven tools and expert support, migration is a manageable process. The bottom line

Five key recommendations

A clear path from planning to go-live

Every migration is unique, but these five steps help you begin with confidence, alongside your Google account team and implementation partner.

  • Define your strategy

    Align on outcomes, decide what moves at go-live and follow a phased plan.

  • Mitigate risks early

    Data audit, identity and coexistence, change management and pilot validation.

  • Plan with Migration Planner

    A high-confidence ETA based on your organization’s own data.

  • Migrate with Data Import

    Cloud-to-cloud transfers up to 5x faster, with no extra hardware or licenses.

  • Get expert help

    Your Google account team, implementation partners and Google Cloud Consulting.

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The numbers behind a move to Workspace

Business results, migration speed and real customer outcomes from the guide.

  1. 336%

    ROI from switching to Google Workspace, according to Forrester

    Business value

  2. 50%

    Reduction in help desk tickets after moving to Workspace

    IT support

  3. 30%

    Improved efficiency on collaborative activities

    Productivity

  4. 5x

    Faster transfers with the cloud-native data import tool, which is free to use

    Data import

  5. 3–9 mo

    Typical timeline for Google’s three-phase migration approach

    Timeline

  6. 28,000

    Users Colgate-Palmolive migrated to Workspace in 6 months

    Customer story

  7. 3.5M+

    Files a Brazilian public institution migrated to Workspace in just 2 months

    Customer story

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Wursta helps enterprises plan, migrate and adopt Google Workspace, from the first data audit to global go-live. We don’t ship tools. We ship outcomes.

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