Raymond Group Ties Up With Google Cloud For AI Adoption

The Raymond Group, one of India’s most diversified conglomerates, today announced an organisation-wide partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation across its Textile, Apparel, Retail, Real Estate and Engineering businesses.  As the brand celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, such AI-driven transformation sees Raymond leveraging the advanced capabilities of Google Workspace Enterprise with support from Searce, helping to modernize Raymond’s operations, empower its workforce with AI, and set a new benchmark for innovation in the traditional manufacturing sector.

By going all-in on Google Workspace across its 8,000 organizations, underscoring the next generation productivity platform’s ability to serve a diverse and complex enterprise. Raymond now operates with the same industry-leading security and privacy standards that Google uses internally, a powerful testament to Workspace’s strength and reliability. 

"Our collaboration with Raymond Group marks a significant step toward future-ready innovation," said Sumedha Chakraborthy, Head of Google Workspace, India & South Asia. "At Google Cloud, we believe AI and data-driven innovation can unlock transformative impact across every sector. By adopting Google Cloud’s secure, AI-powered collaboration tools and infrastructure, Raymond is driving new levels of efficiency and intelligence across every layer of its operations. We’re proud to enable their journey toward becoming an AI-first enterprise, accelerating growth while honoring the legacy of one of India’s most respected and enduring brands." 

Commenting on the partnership, Ravi Hudda, Group CDIO, Raymond Group, said, “Our enterprise-wide adoption of Google Workspace was anchored on three priorities: strengthen security and governance; put responsible AI directly into the tool used by Raymond employees every day; and enable truly real-time collaboration across our textiles, real estate, and engineering businesses. As we look to power the next century of Raymond’s growth, we’re breaking down silos, re-imagining collaboration and scaling intelligence.”

Raymond is also strengthening its digital backbone on Google Cloud’s infrastructure. With its SAP Rise environment already running on Google Cloud, the company is now exploring Vertex AI to democratize artificial intelligence and infuse smart capabilities into every workflow, reinforcing its bold ambition to become a truly AI-first enterprise. This reinforces Raymond’s ambition to become a truly AI-first enterprise, ensuring AI is accessible and impactful across all business use cases.

Searce partnered with Raymond Group as the trusted consulting and implementation partner to drive this large-scale transformation. By applying its multi-layered consulting approach to navigate diverse stakeholder needs across the CISO, CIO, and CFO offices, Searce ensured that critical priorities such as security, compliance, operational cost, and user experience were addressed from the start. Leveraging Google Workspace’s secure, AI-powered collaboration platform, Searce designed and executed a phased migration that enabled Raymond to retire legacy infrastructure, strengthen governance, and empower over 8,000 employees with modern, AI-driven productivity tools.