Partner Advantage Specialization and Expertise
Partners with a Specialization have established a
Google Cloud services practice, proven customer
success, and are vetted by a third-party assessor.
Partners with Expertise have demonstrated
proficiency and customer success in a specific
industry, solution, or product.
Specialization areas
When you see a Google Cloud partner with a Specialization, it indicates the strongest signal of proficiency and experience with Google Cloud.
| Specialization area | Description | Requirements |
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Application Development - Services |
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Bring your big ideas to life with the help of the
cloud. These partners can help you use the best of
Google Cloud to build and manage cloud-native business
apps. Products include: Apigee, App Engine, Functions, IAM,
Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage,
Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, Container
Builder, and more. |
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Cloud Migration - Services |
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Make the journey to the cloud easier. They have been
handpicked to deliver a seamless transition to Google
Cloud—from building the foundational architecture to
the actual mechanics of migration. Products include: Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes
Engine, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Cloud SQL,
BigQuery, Cloud Spanner |
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Data Analytics - Services |
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Put your data to work with Google Cloud's big data
products. These partners have demonstrated success
turning huge amounts of data into insights that drive
your business forward. Products include: BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc,
Datalab, and Pub/Sub |
|
Data Management - Services |
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These partners have demonstrated success with Data
Management of workloads from on-premises, private
cloud, or other public clouds. Products include: Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable,
Firestore, Firebase, Memorystore. Any Oracle database
migrations to Google Cloud Bare Metal Solution are
also in scope. |
|
Education - Services |
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Whether it’s technical deployment, professional
development for educators, or transformation services
for school leaders, these partners can help you find
creative solutions. Products include: Google Workspace for Education,
Chrome for Education |
|
Infrastructure - Services |
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Move to our secure cloud infrastructure. These
partners have proven success building customer
infrastructure and workflows on Google Cloud. Products include: Compute Engine, Container Engine,
Cloud Operations, Google Cloud VPC Network, Cloud Load
Balancing, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud DNS, IAM, and
Cloud Key Management Service, and GKE |
|
Internet of Things (IoT) - Services |
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Demonstrated the ability to connect, process, store,
and analyze device data both at the edge and in the
cloud to drive new business value. Products include: IoT Core, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions,
Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Firebase |
|
Location-Based Services |
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Help your users get from A to Z, track thousands of
moving assets, or build immersive gaming experiences.
These partners have a successful track record of
building and managing applications using the best of
Google Maps Platform and Google Cloud, in both web and
mobile environments. Products include: Google Maps Platform - Maps,
Routes, and Places |
|
Machine Learning - Services |
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Speed up and scale out sophisticated machine learning
models. These partners can help you use Google Cloud
AI and machine learning services for your own data
analysis, speech and image recognition applications,
and more. Products include: TensorFlow, Cloud AI, Natural
Language API, Speech API, Translation API,
Video Intelligence API, Vision API |
|
Marketing Analytics - Services |
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Help you collect, transform, analyze, and visualize
data, and then use the insights gained to optimize
marketing strategy and activations. so you can make
data-driven decisions that make an impact. Products include: BigQuery, BigQuery Data Transfer
Service, Dataflow, Dataproc, Datalab, Pub/Sub, Cloud
Composer, TensorFlow, and Cloud AI |
|
SAP on Google Cloud - Services |
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These partners have demonstrated success with SAP on
Google Cloud and developed solutions that integrate
with and accelerate deployment of customer SAP
solutions running on Google Cloud. Products include: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage,
Filestore, IAM, VPC, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect,
Cloud Operations, Apigee, BigQuery, Vertex AI, Looker,
SAP |
|
Security - Services |
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Keep your organization (and reputation) safe. These
partners are experienced in securing customer data and
workflows through Google Cloud. Products include: Security Command Center, Audit
Logs, DLP, Shielded VMs, HSM, CKMS, IAM, Cloud
Identity, Resource Mgr, Identity Platform, Titan
Security Key, Phishing Protection, reCAPTCHA
Enterprise, Web Risk |
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Work Transformation |
Work Transformation - Enterprise
Success deploying Google Workspace to Enterprise
organizations, which includes providing services for
establishing governance, technical implementation,
training people, processes, and support. Products: Google Workspace, Chrome |
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Work Transformation - SMB partners
These partners have had success deploying Google
Workspace to SMB organizations, which includes
providing services for establishing governance,
technical implementation, training people, processes,
and support. Products: Google Workspace, Chrome |
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Training |
Data Analytics training partners
Demonstrated success in delivering our Google Cloud
data analytics curriculum—along with achieving a set
amount of learners within a year, including two
authorized trainers dedicated to data analytics on
Google Cloud. Products include: BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc,
Datalab, and Pub/Sub |
|
Infrastructure training partners
Demonstrated success in delivering our Google Cloud
infrastructure curriculum—along with achieving a set
amount of learners within a year, including two
authorized trainers dedicated to infrastructure on
Google Cloud. Products include: Compute Engine, Container Engine,
Cloud Operations, Google Cloud VPC, Load Balancing,
Cloud DNS, IAM, and CKMS |
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Security training partners
Demonstrated success in delivering our Google Cloud
infrastructure curriculum—along with achieving a set
amount of learners within a year, including two
authorized trainers dedicated to infrastructure on
Google Cloud. Products include: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud
Operations, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud
Interconnect, IAM, Cloud DLP API, and CKMS |
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Specialization area
Expertise areas
Google Cloud partners with Expertise have demonstrated customer success and have a certain number of unique certified individuals.
Solutions
62 Expertise areas under these solution categories: Application Modernization, Smart Analytics, Infrastructure Modernization, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Security, Productivity & Collaboration.
Partner requirements
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Services partners: 2 active Google Certifications
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Resellers: 2 active Google Credentials
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Build partners: 1 approved product integration
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1 approved Customer Success Story
Products/technology
34 Expertise areas under Google Cloud products such as Apigee, Backup and Disaster Recovery, and Analytics; partner technology such as Oracle and SAP, and other clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Teradata.
Partner requirements
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Services partners: 2 active Google Certifications
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Resellers: 2 active Google Credentials
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Build partners: 1 approved product integration
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1 approved Customer Success Story
Industries
18 Expertise areas including: Professional Services, Cloud Natives, CPG, Financial Services, Education, Government, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Retail, SMB, Supply Chain & Logistics, and Telecommunications.
Partner requirements
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Services partners: 2 active Google Certifications
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Resellers: 2 active Google Credentials
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Build partners: 1 approved product integration
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1 approved Customer Success Story
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