Visible collaboration instrument Miro is additional integrating with the Google Meet videoconferencing platform, permitting customers to entry and share new and current Miro boards throughout conferences.
The announcement, which was first teased again in Could, additional builds on the present partnership between Google Workspace and Miro, which already permits customers to collaborate utilizing Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides straight inside a Miro board. Miro for Google Calendar was additionally launched earlier this 12 months and lets customers connect Miro boards on to Google calendar invitations.
How does it work?
When a group is gathering through Google Meet, this new integration will enable attendees to launch Miro from the actions panel and immediately acquire entry to Miro’s platform while not having to sign-up or sign-in, permitting each inner and exterior events to see and work together with the identical board content material.
Miro’s chief product officer, Varun Parmar, needs to get rid of the additional steps which might be normally essential when accessing third-party purposes, comparable to manually sharing a hyperlink and having everybody swap between home windows to realize entry.
“All of these friction factors which have historically existed when apps work alongside video conferencing, via this integration with Google Meet, we’re streamlining that whole end-to-end circulation,” he stated.
Constructing a best-of-breed stack
Each Miro and Google Workspace have seen their buyer bases develop because of the pandemic. Now, Parmar stated that no matter the working mannequin organizations have chosen to undertake, workplaces want to make sure they’re rolling out the correct instruments to permit staff to collaborate and get work accomplished.
“For corporations which might be making the choice to go together with all-in-one options, what they discover is that it really works up till the purpose the place their staff determine on the market are higher options accessible on a unique platform,” he stated.
Consequently, integrations between totally different distributors have grow to be more and more necessary.
Dave Citron, director of product administration at Google Meet says that partnerships and integrations are “core to Google Workspace’s DNA”, with the Workspace Market now providing over 5,000 third-party apps.
