>> Hi.
I'm Xen, and I'm a financial analyst working
for Altostrat.
Now, I'm relocating to our Tokyo office today.
Luckily, while I was on my flight to Tokyo,
my corporate emails, powered by Gmail, were
synchronized and taken offline so I could
work on my emails during my flight.
I've just arrived at the Tokyo office, and
I see I've received an email from Shiruzuki-san,
our HR head.
"Hello, Xen.
Welcome to Tokyo, and here's a few of your
new joiner tasks."
So, first up is adding this to my task list,
so I'll just click "more actions" and then
"add this task," and it's automatically added
to my task list, with the option of including
a deadline date and attaching the related
email.
Now I need to contact Shiruzuki-san.
He is my Japanese facilitator.
He doesn't speak a word of English, so I'm
going to have to get some help from the "auto
translate" feature in Google Chat.
All I need to do is invite an English and
a Japanese translation bar to help us out.
Let's see.
"Hello"-- and Shiruzuki-san can see my response
in Japanese, which he can understand.
Now I need to watch a training video which
is in our corporate video infrastructure,
powered by YouTube.
It's great, because it's secured from the
public, so only users in Altostrat can see
it.
Just like YouTube, I can rate it; I can leave
comments for the other employees at Altostrat.
Right, I need to contact Laura in our London
headquarters.
Now, instead of calling Laura using a telephone,
I could call her with the Voice Call in Google
Chat.
But instead, I think I'll take it up a notch
and I'll Video Chat.
Hey, Laura.
>> Hey, Xen.
>> How are you?
>> I'm good.
How are you?
>> I'm safely in Japan.
>> Great.
>> I'll let you know how the project goes,
okay?
>> Thanks.
Bye.
>> Right.
Cheers, bye.
So next I've got to submit my new Japanese
business card for printing, so I'll just do
a search for it.
I know it's an attachment, so I can narrow
the search down.
Hey, there it is, my business card.
I've already tagged this email using the labels
feature in Gmail, which I can add and change
at any time.
I'll look at my urgent folder, and I see there's
an email with travel advice for Tokyo from
HR.
Now, I don't need any clients like Adobe or
Microsoft Word installed, because Gmail will
literally stream the document to my browser.
So now I need to sign up to my team meetings
and schedule a one-on-one with the local Head
of Operations, who is my new manager.
So in my corporate calendar, our administrator
has already provisioned the team calendar
to my calendar so I can see when we have team
meetings.
I'll just copy the team meeting to my calendar,
and, hey, I'll also set up a free SMS alert
to notify me of this meeting ten minutes before
every time this meeting occurs.
Right, so now I'll schedule my one-on-one
with my manager.
I think I'll also set up some drinks for tomorrow
at 7:00 p.m. in Tokyo using the Quick Add
feature.
Hey, the calendar understands exactly what
I'm scheduling, and imbeds a Google map to
the calendar so I can see where I'm going.
So Laura has sent me an Excel spreadsheet
for a project we're working on, which I can
view in my browser without needing Excel installed--
or I can just download it locally.
But because I do want to collaborate on this
document, I'm going to convert it to a Google
spreadsheet.
I can do some simple formatting changes to
do a bit of cleanup.
Classically, to do this market research, I'd
have to send this document to multiple people,
and they'd have to send back multiple versions,
and I'd have to consolidate.
Instead, I think I'll create a form on top
of the spreadsheet, and email it to all of
the analysts.
If the person I'm inviting is outside of my
domain, I'll get a warning to notify me.
The analysts receive it in their inbox and
enter the data directly in the email, and
this information is entered in realtime in
my own spreadsheet.
I'm going to invite Shiruzuki-san to collaborate
on the spreadsheet with me.
I can see who has access to the documents
at any stage, and I can also change their
access rights.
Shiruzuki-san receives an email inviting him
to collaborate with me.
Right away, we start chatting.
He can edit fields and he can monitor how
the stock market is doing so we can see realtime
stock information right in the spreadsheet
and pivot the values off from it.
Now, at the moment I know our senior executive
is really interested in the average number,
so I could create a graph, but instead I'm
going to create a gadget.
I'll add this gauge gadget to my spreadsheet,
which will track my value, and then publish
this gadget to our iGoogle page for the company.
So, you see, when my manager logs in, he'll
see this gadget update in realtime as the
values change in the spreadsheet.
So this is complete 360 data intelligence
from realtime data gathering, collaborative
analysis, and then publishing the data as
business intelligence.
The team has been working on a more complex
analysis of the market performance in America,
and they can help me decide what to do in
Japan.
I can use different visualization styles to
display the data with rich gadgets from Google
for financial analysis just like this.
I can even track over time what the performance
is in different areas.
Now, as a financial analyst, I like working
with pivot charts, so I can filter the data
to show me the region, and I can also group
different values together so I can look at
the region and the average numbers for the
subprime loans.
Now I need to work with my team on a collaborative
site.
This is a rich collaboration portal powered
by Google Sites, where we can store and share
information on our team project.
The analysis that we've worked on so far is
already in the site, and I can just add my
recent work in a dashboard.
I can quickly insert the spreadsheet that
we've been working on.
There-- so now everyone can see the results
from our analysis.