Client Case: Laba

How the Laba team improves their workflows with Google Workspace tools

About the client: Laba Group is an international company specializing in online education. It is present in the markets of Ukraine, the USA, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, and Hungary. It works under four brands: Laba, SKVOT, robot_dreams, and ELVTR:

• Laba is a business school specializing in corporate training in HR, marketing, management, finance, and computer programs.
• SKVOT is an online school for creative industries that teaches design, copywriting, photography, and other creative specialties.
• Robot_dreams is an online school for programming, analytics, and data science.
• ELVTR is a business school operating in the US market. The courses are taught by Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, and Meta specialists.

Project Start Date: 17.10.2016

Project End Date 14.12.2021

Challenge: It was important for the Laba company to get better technical support and speed up the processing of requests arising in working with tools from Google Workspace (from now on, GWS). The team also wanted to improve data protection and the security of using GWS. First, it concerned the use of e-mail with corporate addresses of employees and the preservation of personal data and electronic documents.

The Laba team also needed to increase storage memory and the number of users, conduct better video meetings, and increase Google Cloud quotas.

Solution: Thanks to cooperation with Cloudfresh, Laba switched to a mix of service packages from GWS — Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Such a solution had to cover all the company’s needs related to the safety of using the service and data protection. And also helped the team improve the user experience thanks to the new features – noise cancellation in Google Meet, increased number of video meeting participants and GWS users, and more Google Cloud quotas.

Results: After switching to the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus service packages from GWS, the Laba team received:

1. Improved security. It became possible to configure DLP rules to protect data security, perform effective security analysis, and monitor user activity in the system. For example, Laba employees can configure the system to receive timely notifications of data leaks according to the specified parameters.
2. Team expansion. In the old package used by the company, it was possible to add up to 300 users to the system. Now the team has the opportunity to create an unlimited number of accounts in the system.
3. Increasing the amount of memory on the disk. Currently, each GWS user with Laba has 5 TB of disk storage, and there are team Google Drives with unlimited storage.
4. Google Cloud quota increase. Laba sought to increase quotas for the number of processors in virtual machines to 36. Before cooperation with Cloudfresh, the company could use up to 8 processors. The limit on the size of the hard disk increased from 250 to 770 GB after the transition to the new GWS service packages

In addition:

• The quotas for using Google Cloud functions have increased
• It was possible to connect to Google BigQuery
• Improved noise reduction in Google Meet

All this helped the Laba team to automate processes, save time and money, and make analytics more convenient.

Cloudfresh Role: Cloudfresh experts advised the Laba team on working with GWS services and explained the advantages of the available packages, their functionality, and differences. In this way, Laba could choose the best option according to the company’s needs and optimize its costs. In addition, automation has improved thanks to bonuses from Cloudfresh.

The Cloudfresh team will continue to provide technical support and respond to requests from the Laba team regarding using GWS tools.