Client Case: airSlate

How airSlate, the Ukrainian unicorn startup, optimized its work with the transition to a new Google Workspace edition?

About the client: airSlate is a software company that creates solutions that empower teams to create, innovate, automate, and digitally transform the way their organizations do business.

Nowadays, airSlate’s product portfolio consists of several products such as pdfFiller, signNow, USLegal, and airSlate, which serves over 100 million users worldwide, with 900 team members.

Industry: IT 

Project Start Date: 4/05/2022

Project End Date: 10/06/2022 

Challenge: The airSlate team has been using the Google Workspace Basic plan for a long time, using such tools like Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. However, with company scaling and Google Workspace policy changes, airSlate needed to move to a new plan.

One of the main factors that forced airSlate to switch the plan was the changes in Google Workspace terms of conditions that required accounts with more than 300 users to change their subscriptions. On the other hand, the company had some business requirements not covered by the lower subscription plan, including:

• Users were limited in Google Drive storage space;
• IT admins had limited analyzing tools and many limitations related to document permissions;
• The documents were linked to the owner, no special sharing permissions, and so on.

So, the company goal was to comply with Google’s new licensing rules and get the additional features that will cover most of the requirements from the airSlate side.

Solution: To meet the company’s needs, the airSlate team chose the Google Workspace Enterprise Standard edition, which helped to solve the requests and get the following benefits:

1. Increased Google Drive space for all users
2. Advanced sharing permissions, in particular, secure sharing outside the company
3. Advanced investigation tools that allow to analyze any events and create triggers to notify Admins about necessary actions
4. More convenient Admin management console

Results: Switching to a new plan solved airSlate’s problem of complying with the new rules from Google and also opened up many opportunities for the company to scale.

Now, the airSlate team does not have to worry about space availability on Google Drive, and the company’s IT specialists are freed from limitations in analysis tools. Both improved monitoring and security tools allow employees to jointly own and work on many documents without worrying about their security.

So, together with the Enterprise Standard plan, airSlate has streamlined the company’s operations, empowered employees to work together in a more secure and flexible environment, and prepared for rapid scaling.

Cloudfresh Role: Cloudfresh helped airSlate choose the best plan according to the company’s needs. The team provided consultations and all necessary information on the various GWS editions and features. Cloudfresh performed technical assistance in configuring and integrating the new Enterprise plan.

Also, thanks to the cooperation with Cloudfresh, airSlate received the most favorable tariff conditions, which significantly helped to save the company’s resources.