Modern enterprise-level productivity suites promise both ease of use and collaboration, but that’s far from the reality for technology leaders. At the outset, productivity suites are the backbone of modern daily operations, connecting people, processes, and data.
However, in practice, the administrative burden of managing these productivity suites increases as businesses grow and scale. IT teams spend too much time creating integration patches, managing complex licensing tiers, and troubleshooting conflicts instead of focusing on innovation.
Problem: Legacy tax and the illusion of unification
Traditionally, organizations have layered connectors, third-party tools, and standalone solutions to bridge the gap between their applications and devices. According to JumpCloud’s recent statistics, organizations are relying on an average of 9.3 tools to manage their core IT functions. Further, 58% of enterprises report their IT unification process is unsustainable, while 1 in 3 report their productivity suite incurs high costs and effort.
Enterprise IT leaders are gradually realizing the futility of their current unification process. The current fragmentation has led to the legacy tax, which is a combination of high licensing costs, vendor lock-in, and overlapping administrative consoles.
Besides, this lack of unification can expand the attack surface. Over 60% of IT leaders have reported critical gaps in data access governance, MFA coverage, and compliance. With loosely-coupled systems, IT teams don’t have a single view of who is accessing which system, thus delaying threat detection and increasing the chances of a potential compromise.
A recent example is that of a global outsourcing company with 385,000 users. By operating in a legacy, fragmented Microsoft environment, the company faced immense administrative challenges and technical debt across its distributed workforce. The recommended solution was to simplify, modernize, and consolidate away from disparate tools.
Solution: The Work Transformation Set and strategic alignment
The next wave of IT modernization requires enterprises to switch from single-point solutions to a cohesive control plane. 87% of technology decision-makers are willing to migrate to a unified platform if available.
Designed as a powerful synergy between Google Workspace and JumpCloud, the Work Transformation Set replaces the network of legacy connectors with a single operating model, where identity, device management, and policy enforcement operate on a unified architecture.
As a recognized Google Cloud partner, Onix is playing a crucial role in engineering this transition. For global enterprises with complex IT systems, Onix provides specialized guidance to overcome legacy environments.
By running Google Workspace migrations and JumpCloud integrations simultaneously, Onix ensures that identities flow seamlessly to productivity suites and physical endpoints. This helps in establishing a Zero Trust foundation without disrupting daily business operations.
Key benefits & ROI
By switching to the Work Transformation Set, here’s how enterprises can avail key benefits:
- Consolidated infrastructure
The Work Transformation Set can effectively replace legacy, overlapping tools like Active Directory, third-party MFA, and endpoint managers, with a single “source of truth” for identifiers. This helps in reducing the administrative overhead of managing multiple consoles. - Operational efficiency
A unified platform can accelerate IT workflows, thus improving operational efficiency. Early adopters of this platform have reported reducing their employee onboarding time by up to 70% and eliminating manual password resets. - Future-proof AI readiness
A fragmented security environment cannot support advanced AI. Through the Work Transformation Set, enterprises can centralize governance and access, thus helping build a secure, compliant foundation, which is necessary to deploy GenAI tools like Gemini for Google Workspace. - Optimized TCO and flexibility
Organizations can now integrate and consolidate identity, device, and access management within the Work Transformation Set framework. This helps them eliminate excess licensing costs (associated with legacy tools), thus enabling long-term savings and business agility.
Conclusion
By switching to the Work Transformation Set, modern enterprises can now unify their technology stacks and prepare for the coming era of Agentic AI. As a Google Cloud partner, Onix is the right solution provider to make this crucial transition.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the Work Transformation Set?
The Work Transformation Set is a unified solution combining Google Workspace’s cloud-native productivity and AI tools with JumpCloud’s cross-platform identity, access, and device management capabilities, all delivered under a cohesive operational model. - Why are enterprises migrating away from legacy Microsoft environments?
Many enterprises find that legacy environments accumulate high administrative overhead, complex licensing tiers, and overlapping security configurations. IT leaders are migrating to reduce this “legacy tax” and consolidate their tools into a leaner, more agile cloud-native architecture. - How does unifying identity and device management improve cybersecurity?
When identity and device management share a single control plane, IT gains end-to-end visibility. This eliminates blind spots, ensures consistent enforcement of multi-factor authentication (MFA), and guarantees that only compliant devices can access corporate data, forming a robust Zero Trust architecture. - What role does Onix play in a Google Workspace and JumpCloud deployment?
Onix acts as the strategic implementation partner, guiding the architectural design and execution of the migration. Onix ensures that the transition from legacy systems to Google Workspace and JumpCloud is seamless, running parallel deployment tracks to maximize integration and minimize business disruption.
