The hassle of opening a separate chat window to signal an agent can be a pain in the ass for many enterprises. And AI companies see the opportunity to bring more AI services on one platformIntegrating even where employees do their work.
OpenAIChatGPT, although still a separate window, is slowly Introducing more integrations In its forum. rivals like Google And Amazon Web Services The belief is that they can compete directly with new platforms targeted at enterprise users who want a more streamlined AI experience. And these two new platforms are the latest volley in the race to bring enterprise AI users to a central location for their AI needs.
Google and AWS are introducing new platforms designed for different full-stack agent workflows, ushering in a world where users won’t need to open other windows to access agents.
Google unveiled Gemini Enterprise, a platform that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said “brings the best of Google AI to every employee.” Meanwhile, AWS announced the Quicken Suite, a series of services that exist as browser extensions for enterprises to call agents.
Both of these platforms aim to help enterprise employees work within an ecosystem while taking into account the context needed in more local storage.
quick suite
AWS, through Bedrock, allows enterprises to build applications and agents, test them, and then deploy them in one place. However, Bedrock remains a backend tool. AWS is banking that organizations will want a better way to reach those agents without leaving their workspace.
Quick Suite will be AWS’s front-facing agentic application for enterprises. It will also be a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox and accessible on Microsoft Outlook, Word and Slack.
Swami Sivasubramaniam, AWS’s vice president for agentic AI, said the Quicken suite is the company’s way of “entering a new era of work” in that it gives employees access to their favorite AI applications with privacy considerations in mind and the context of their enterprise data.
Quicken Suite connects to Adobe Analytics, SharePoint, Snowflake, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3. Through MCP Server, users can also get information from Atlassian, Asana, Box, Canva, PagerDuty, Workato or Zapier.
The platform includes several services that users can toggle:
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An agent builder can be accessed through a chat assistant
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Quick view to analyze and visualize data
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Quick research, which can obtain information and prepare research reports. Users can choose to limit the search to only internal or uploaded documents or use the Internet
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Quick Flow allows people to create routine tasks through simple prompts
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Quickly automate for more complex workflows, where the model can begin coordinating agents and data sharing to complete tasks
AWS said it works through multiple foundation models to power Quicken Suite’s services.
Gemini Enterprise
Google had already begun offering enterprise AI solutions, often in fragmented products. Its latest offering, Gemini Enterprise, brings the company’s AI offerings into one place. products like gemini cli And Google Video Will be integrated and accessible through Gemini Enterprise.
“By bringing all these components together through a single interface, Gemini transforms the way enterprise teams work,” Kurian said. a blog post,
It is powered by the Gemini model and connects to an enterprise’s data sources. Gemini has always been tied to Google’s workspace services, like Docs and Drive, but Gemini Enterprise can now pull information from other platforms like Microsoft 365 or Salesforce.
The idea behind Gemini Enterprise is to offer any user a “no-code workbench” to display information and organize agents for automation. The platform includes pre-built agents for in-depth research and insights, but customers can also bring in their own or third-party agents.
Administrators can manage these agents and workflows through a visual governance framework within Gemini Enterprise.
Google said some customers have already started using Gemini Enterprise, including Macquarie Bank, legal AI provider Harvey and Banco BV.
Google told VentureBeat that other platforms, like Vertex AI, remain separate products. Pricing for both Standard and Pulse editions of Gemini Enterprise starts at $30 per seat, per month. A new pricing tier, Gemini Business, costs $21 per seat per month for one year.
Uninterrupted work in one place
In many ways, enterprise AI was always going to be this and beyond Full-stack, end-to-end environment Where people access all AI tools in one place. After all, fragmented offerings and lost context frustrate many employees who already have too much going on.
Removing the friction of moving windows and potentially losing context of what you’re working on can save people a lot of time, and make the idea of using an AI agent or chatbot more appealing. this was The reasoning behind OpenAI’s decision To create a desktop app for ChatGPT and why we see so many product announcements around the integration.
But now, competitors must offer more differentiated platforms or risk being labeled as copycats of products most people already use. I felt the same way during the QuickTime Suite demo, I thought it felt like ChatGPT.
The battle to become a full-stack platform for the enterprise is just beginning. And as more AI tools and agents become more useful to employees, demand will grow to make these services as simple as a tap from their preferred workspace.
