Google turns on integrations with popular services like Box, Dropbox, and others in Gmail
Google has made a lot of improvements to Gmail this year as it continues to build out its G Suite office productivity service, and rolled out new integrations Thursday that will make it easier to exchange files and information from other services within Gmail. First unveiled earlier this year at Google Cloud Next 2018, Compose Actions are add-ons to Gmail that let users save email attachments directly to their Box or Dropbox folders, for example. Atlassian ( which just unveiled the new Jira design Thursday ) and Engyte are also part of the first round of add-ons, with additional ones planned in the future, Google said in a blog post . G Suite is a key part of Google’s cloud strategy , as it looks up at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure on the infrastructure side of the cloud. Web-based office productivity software is old hat to a lot of tech companies, but there are a significant number of companies that are still using desktop files and attachments to manage their