GFT among Europe’s leaders

The ISG Provider Lens™ – Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem 2023 analyses the relevant software service providers, based on a multi-phased research and analysis process, and positions these providers based on the ISG Research methodology.

This ISG Provider Lens™ consists of five quadrants. GFT has been identified as a leader in the data analytics and machine learning quadrant in Europe.

In this area, Google Cloud and its AI-first suite of tools and solutions excel, with enterprises using GCP-native tools such as BigQuery, Vertex AI, Bard (generative AI) and TensorFlow; data meshes and fabrics such as Dataplex and Dialogflow (for conversational AI); and others.

This is where ecosystem providers play a crucial role, bringing a panoply of data migration  frameworks, accelerators and automation solutions that enable faster and smoother transfer of  databases into BigQuery format on GCP.

Providers are critical in helping enterprises with data governance and compliance, creating analytical tools and dashboards for visualizing data, developing responsible AI frameworks, and identifying and developing specific AI/ML use cases.

Over the last year, GFT has heavily emphasized helping enterprises accelerate data migrations to the cloud, investing in several proprietaryaccelerators. These include its Google Cloud and Snowflake Migration Accelerator to help enterprises accelerate migrations from on-premises systems to Snowflake on GCP; a Google Cloud Data Zone Migration Tool, which moves data from on-premises to GCP while encrypting and decrypting the data; and a Google Cloud Data Zone Data Science Workbench, which allows enterprises to get faster analytics on their ingested data using a Jupyter environment.

Globally, GFT has over 1,200 experienced GCP consultants with more than 500 certifications,  working on more than 140 active GCP projects. It plans to further expand certifications in 2023,  continuing to invest in new GCP talent through GFT Cloud Academy and Learn to Fly program; the latter gives new professional hands-on experience in production-ready environments.