ITTA offers a Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) catalogue: end-user training (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Calendar) and Google Workspace Administration training (admin console, OUs, security, MDM, mail routing). These courses target business users, assistants, communication teams, as well as IT managers and Workspace administrators. Delivered in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom.
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Google Apps Training for End Users is designed to teach new Google Apps Users how to get the most out of their Google Apps investment.
Google Apps Administration Training: learn to manage, secure, and efficiently troubleshoot your Google Workspace environment.
This is one of the most frequent questions raised by CIOs and IT managers in French-speaking Switzerland. Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) offers a cloud-native collaboration approach: Gmail Pro on your domain, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Calendar, Chat, Forms, Sites, Keep and a centralised admin console. Microsoft 365 leans more towards installed productivity apps and historical integration with Windows. Both ecosystems coexist in Switzerland, sometimes in the same company for different user groups.
For organisations that have chosen Workspace (scale-ups, creative agencies, NGOs, international organisations, schools, start-ups, mobile sales teams), the issue is not the technology choice but actual mastery of the suite. Too many teams use Workspace at a fraction of its potential because no one has been trained on advanced collaboration features in Docs, Sheets automations or admin console configuration.
Our catalogue is deliberately tight on two complementary courses, one for end-users, the other for administrators.
ITTA offers a training catalogue, meaning our Workspace training relies on official Google content and our trainers are qualified on the suite. Sessions are delivered by consultants who administer Google Workspace daily for Swiss clients (admin console configuration, security, MDM, mail routing, SSO and SAML implementation).
For organisations switching to Workspace after a Microsoft 365 experience, this positioning lets us honestly address functional comparisons (Docs vs Word, Sheets vs Excel, Drive vs OneDrive, Meet vs Teams) without imposing one publisher over another.
Google Apps for End Users covers productive use of the suite: Gmail (filters, labels, templates, basic automations), Drive and shared file management (Shared Drives, rights, versions), collaborative Docs (comments, suggestions, version merging), Sheets (formulas, pivot tables, imports), Slides, Meet and Calendar. This course targets business users, assistants, communication and marketing teams, mobile sales teams who need to gain time daily.
Google Apps Administration covers configuration and governance of the Workspace admin console: organisational units (OUs), groups, security policies, mobile device management (MDM), Gmail settings (routing, compliance), Drive sharing, logging, auditing, incident management and governance best practices for a growing organisation. Target: IT managers, system administrators, Workspace teams, CISOs and DPOs verifying compliance.
In our sessions, comparisons with Microsoft 365 come up systematically. End-users generally note a good collaborative experience in Docs and Sheets (comments, suggestions, smooth co-editing), powerful search in Gmail and Drive, and native integration between apps. Administrators appreciate the centralised admin console and the clarity of the OU model.
On the Microsoft 365 side, advanced Excel users generally find Sheets still trails on certain analytical features (Power Query, very complex pivot tables), even though the Google suite has improved a lot. For organisations migrating from Microsoft 365, our training explicitly addresses these friction points.
Workspace fits a broader catalogue. The collaboration and file management sub-domain groups Workspace, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Slack training. The Google publisher groups our Google Cloud and adjacent training. For organisations in mixed environments, the cross with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint is frequent.
The major 2025-2026 evolution is Gemini integration in Workspace: Gemini in Gmail for assisted writing, Gemini in Docs and Sheets for generation and analysis, Gemini in Meet for automatic minutes. On the admin side, Workspace strengthens security policies (Context-Aware Access, alerts), Drive governance (DLP) and compatibility with sovereignty requirements (Sovereign Controls for Europe). Our pedagogical content integrates these evolutions as they ship.
Our Workspace sessions are available in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom with screen sharing and live demonstrations on a training Workspace console. Customised corporate training can be organised on your premises in French-speaking Switzerland, with a programme adapted to your actual Workspace tenant (your admin console, OUs, policies).
Should we train end-users or administrators first?
It depends on your organisation maturity. If you start a Workspace migration, train IT administrators first so they configure the console, security policies and mail routing correctly. Once the platform is stable, end-user training maximises adoption. For an existing but underused environment, the priority is often end-user training.
Can a team used to Microsoft 365 migrate quickly to Workspace?
Yes, provided you invest in initial training. Users quickly find their bearings on Gmail, Drive and Docs. Very advanced Excel users need specific support on Sheets, especially for complex formulas and automations. Our End Users training covers this transition path.
How does GDPR compliance and Swiss requirements work on Workspace?
Google Workspace offers a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Amendment and governance features (Vault, DLP, logging). For organisations subject to the Swiss revised FADP, configuring OUs, Drive sharing policies and retention is central. Our Administration training covers these points in a governance logic, without substituting a legal analysis specific to your context.
Which profiles recruit after Workspace training?
Workspace administrators are sought by scale-ups, agencies, international organisations and NGOs based in French-speaking Switzerland. On the end-user side, Workspace mastery becomes a productivity standard in all communication, sales and operations teams in Google-equipped organisations.
Beyond initial training, lasting Google Workspace adoption depends on several factors we cover in class. An internal business champion per team massively accelerates appropriation, becoming the daily relay on operational questions (where to find a file, how to share correctly, how to configure a recurring Meet event). Organisations investing in internal champion training obtain higher ROI than those settling for an everyone-half-a-day training.
Drive governance is often underestimated. The Shared Drives versus personal Drives with sharing rule, the external rights policy, retention, departure management: all this deserves clear positioning rather than free interpretation. Our Administration course addresses these in detail, with examples of functional policies in comparable Swiss organisations. Cybersecurity best practices (mandatory 2FA, Context-Aware Access, admin alerts, suspicious connection monitoring) are also addressed in the Administration scope.
Finally, cohabitation with other tools (Slack, Notion, Asana, Salesforce, HubSpot) is almost always present in modern organisations. Workspace exposes APIs and connectors with these third-party tools via Apps Script and Workspace Marketplace, enabling automation between Workspace and the SaaS ecosystem. Our Administration course covers these extension possibilities.
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