How Raymond uses Google Workspace and Gemini to reimagine collaboration at a 100-year-old company

Опубликовано 23 февраля 2026, 19:27

Featured in this video: Ravi Hudda, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, and Lyju Thomas, Group Chief Information Security Officer
Executive summary: To prepare itself for its next century of business, Raymond needed to modernize its legacy infrastructure and break down communication silos. By adopting Google Workspace with close collaboration from partner Searce, the company unified its workforce on a single, secure platform that balances high-speed collaboration with zero-trust security. The change has reimagined how Raymond operates. Its marketing teams now deliver creative content in minutes rather than days, the finance team uses NotebookLM to extract information from complex data almost instantly, and everyone across the organization can communicate in real time. With a single control plane for management and integrated AI tools like Veo 3 and Nano Banana, Raymond has created new ways for the company to grow.

Challenge: As a 100-year-old company, Raymond is on a mission to ""reimagine the complete man"" through fashion retail, auto components, real estate, and more, but their legacy infrastructure could no longer keep up. It forced the team to rely heavily on email-based communication, which created information silos and made it difficult to prioritize urgent tasks. Raymond needed a way to unify employees on a single, easy-to-use platform. That platform also needed to be secure across a hybrid workforce and ensure strong governance without slowing down the business.

Solution: Raymond chose Google Workspace to better connect its team through a cloud-first strategy. The company worked closely with Searce, a Work Transformation award-winning Google Partner, to replace its fragmented solutions with a single suite. Raymond has now shifted its disconnected email threads over to the seamless combination of Gmail and Google Chat. With Google Sheets, teams can also work on the same data sets simultaneously without version control issues. Raymond also found Workspace matched its approach to Zero Trust and equipped them with data loss prevention (DLP) and a single control plane to simplify device and data management. More recently, the team integrated Gemini, NotebookLM, and tools like Nano Banana and Veo 3 to empower their teams with scalable, responsible AI. The team has continued to work closely with Searce on change management throughout this journey, trusting the organization as a partner in encouraging adoption across Raymond’s business units.

Result: Collaborating with Searce has helped Raymond deliver more intelligent, impactful, and future-facing technology solutions. Raymond’s IT team now has a single control plane to manage devices and data, allowing the company to move more quickly without sacrificing on security. Real-time collaboration across the suite has helped eliminate communication silos, especially across departments. Meanwhile, with Gemini, Nano Banana, and Veo 3, Raymond’s social media and marketing teams have accelerated production. They’re now able to deliver creative assets that once took up to two days in minutes. Additionally, the finance team has turned to NotebookLM to extract actionable information from complex data using natural language in minutes. This unified infrastructure allows Raymond’s employees to iterate faster and scale the business faster than ever.

Partner: Searce → searce.com

Highlights and key takeaways from our interview with Ravi Hudda, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, and Lyju Thomas, Group Chief Information Security Officer:

What is Google Workspace → goo.gle/45BsE1W

Set up Google Workspace → goo.gle/4q8r3t1
Subscribe to Google Workspace → goo.gle/GoogleWorkspace

Try Google Workspace with Gemini → goo.gle/45FrVNh
Follow Google Workspace on X → goo.gle/3YpmHS0
Follow Google Workspace on Facebook → goo.gle/4q8cZja
Follow Google Workspace on LinkedIn → goo.gle/49Eqjpw
Follow Google Workspace on Instagram → goo.gle/44Xs4eL
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