For years, business and IT leaders have been forced into a difficult compromise: sacrificing effectiveness, security, and choice for the streamlined procurement structure of Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs). These big, all-in-one contracts are easy to buy but have often resulted in uneven product performance across the stack, elevated security risks, and single-vendor lock-in.
Today's sophisticated buyers demand both frictionless purchasing and best-in-class capability. In fact, a recent survey shows that 67% of companies plan to shift toward best-of-breed applications over the next five years. However, they’re also cautious, with 66% flagging complex integration and 51% citing complex vendor management as top concerns with this approach.
To meet these needs without adding complexity, Okta, Google Workspace, and Omnissa are announcing the Work Transformation Set, a cloud productivity solution from Google Workspace. Available for large enterprise and public sector customers, this new pre-integrated bundle makes it as simple to buy leading identity security, endpoint management, and AI-powered productivity tools as it is to sign an ELA, but without locking organizations into a one-size-fits-all stack.
“Simplicity shouldn't mean compromise. Together, with Google Workspace and Omnissa, we’re delivering a seamless experience for modern work — combining frictionless productivity and enterprise-grade security. Organizations get the power of a unified solution without the limitations of relying on a single vendor’s stack,” said Ric Smith, President of Products and Technology, Okta.
As a cloud-first solution, the Work Transformation Set is designed to move organizations beyond the limitations of legacy technology, delivering on three core benefits:
Accelerate individual and team innovation with AI
To boost productivity, organizations need AI tools that can seamlessly integrate into their workplace, enable collaboration, and allow users to securely access them from any device, no matter where they work. The Work Transformation Set helps teams work faster, smarter, and more safely with AI, accelerating innovation by:
Putting premium Google AI at the fingertips of every user. The bundle includes Google Workspace with Gemini, which allows teams to use generative AI for more effective content generation, data analysis, and meeting management, at no additional cost. Gemini is also built directly into products like Gmail and Google Drive, allowing it to understand the context of a user’s work without requiring the user to manually copy and paste information.
Fostering modern collaboration by breaking down information silos and making it easy to share data and communicate. This includes real-time co-editing in apps like Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets, where multiple users can contribute simultaneously.
Delivering a consistent, cloud-first user experience to enable teams to work from any device, anywhere. By adopting a web-first and mobile-first design, the solution provides an intuitive experience across desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
“At Google, we are on a mission to equip every organization with AI-powered tools that drive efficiency, collaboration, and security, so individuals and teams can do their best work,” said Yulie Kwon Kim, VP of Product, Google Workspace. “Identity is the critical foundation for that mission, and our collaboration with Okta combines Google Workspace with a leading identity platform to offer customers a secure, AI-assisted digital workplace, all under a single, cost-effective plan. The Work Transformation Set simplifies the adoption of a strong Zero Trust posture and helps to ensure teams have the intuitive, secure access they need to thrive.”
Reduce security risks with a Zero Trust model
The Work Transformation Set also provides comprehensive security by enforcing Zero Trust controls, enabling organizations to verify users, devices, and applications before granting access through a layered approach:
Okta secures identity and access management.
Omnissa Workspace ONE provides unified endpoint management to ensure devices are compliant and trusted before they connect to corporate resources.
Google Workspace helps to keep data secure and compliant.
Through Okta's platform, customers can enforce adaptive, context-aware access policies and provide easy-to-use and phishing-resistant authentication. Okta Device Access extends protection to the device login for Windows and macOS, securing access from the moment a device powers on until a user accesses a cloud application. Additionally, automated user provisioning and deprovisioning through Lifecycle Management and Workflows reduce risk by helping ensure there are no identity gaps during employee onboarding and offboarding.
This combined approach helps ensure that only the right users on secure devices are granted access to sensitive resources, without adding friction, resulting in stronger security and improved productivity. It also helps eliminate the burden of patching and securing desktop apps or on-prem software, creating a lower attack surface compared with legacy solutions.
“At Omnissa, we believe the employee experience should be at the center of everything we do by creating secure and seamless environments that enable people to do their best work, no matter where they are or what device they use,” said Bharath Rangarajan, Senior Vice President of Products and Technology Alliances, Omnissa. “With Omnissa Workspace ONE, organizations can manage, protect, and deliver an exceptional employee experience through a single, AI-powered solution. Together with Google Workspace and Okta, we’re extending that value by providing a trusted foundation to help organizations simplify management, strengthen security, and keep employees productive in today’s digital workplace.”
Improve business agility with an open ecosystem
The Work Transformation Set from Google Workspace provides organizations with the freedom to select the best tools and swap out solutions for their specific needs, offering broad support for a diverse range of operating systems, devices (including Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android), and Microsoft Office formats. This enables a more modern, cloud-agnostic IT strategy that attracts top talent and adapts more quickly to change.
For procurement, the bundle delivers streamlined purchasing through a single, cost-effective Google Workspace contract. With predictable pricing and simplified vendor management, organizations pay only for what they use, ultimately reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with other bundles that often include unused products.
To learn more about this collaboration, check out Google Workspace’s blog post and Omnissa’s blog post.
