The Places API provides you with business information, ratings, reviews and more for over 200 million businesses and places around the world. Starting today, we’re starting to roll out more attributes that reflect some of the most highly-requested information about places. These Place details and attributes play an important role in keeping existing customers informed, […]

Editor’s note: B4A, a Brazilian company that runs a beauty e-commerce platform, recently migrated their database to AlloyDB and saw performance accelerate by 90 percent across their queries. Now the company is looking for further gains in management and ease of use by migrating to other fully managed database solutions from Google. B4A is a […]

Incumbent financial services institutions (FSIs) are currently in the midst of a generational shift in enterprise technology toward cloud. These institutions are making a bet that cloud can help accelerate their digital transformation journey and give them the speed, agility, and scalability needed to compete with fintech. A foundational piece of this transition is around […]

Editor’s note: OVO Energy was founded in 2009 as an energy retailer that redesigned the energy experience to be fair, simple and green for consumers. Inspired by Google’s carbon-aware load shifting to data centers with the cleanest energy, OVO Energy implemented its own solution using Cloud Composer and Cloud Run Jobs. Here Jack Lockyer-Stevens, Software […]

In a startup, you need to get to the MVP fast, gather feedback from early adopters, and iterate in a quick cycle. Anything that takes time away from developing and iterating on features delays the launch and that’s a serious problem when time-to-market is crucial.  Google Cloud offers products that can help you to build […]

Everyone wants affordable, quality healthcare but not everyone has it. A 2021 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked the U.S. in last place among 11 high-income countries in healthcare access.1 Carbon Health is working to change that. We are doing so by combining the best of virtual care, in-person visits, and technology to support patients […]

Vodafone is currently the second largest telecommunication company in Hungary, and recently  acquired UPC Hungary to extend its previous mobile services with fix portfolio. Following the acquisition, Vodafone Hungary serves approximately 3.8 million residential and business subscribers. This story is about how Vodafone Hungary benefited from moving its data and analytics platform to Google Cloud.  […]

Global businesses across industries consistently trust us when they build geospatial products and solutions for their own customers. One of the key reasons businesses choose Google Maps Platform is the freshness of its points of interest (POI) data. For example, using Google Maps Platform, a travel site can help its customers discover open restaurants near […]

In May 2022 at Google I/O, we announced the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing your most demanding enterprise database workloads. We’re happy to announce that AlloyDB is now generally available. AlloyDB is an excellent choice for organizations looking to break free from their […]

If you’re looking to free yourself from legacy databases and their overpriced, restrictive licensing, you’ve probably looked at cloud-based alternatives. Google Cloud’s database portfolio includes AlloyDB for PostgreSQL as a key modernization option. AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for the most demanding enterprise database workloads, combining the best of Google with one of […]