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Google Cloud & McKinsey

Our collaboration

McKinsey’s capabilities and expertise span Google Cloud’s broad portfolio of solutions from infrastructure (e.g., Compute Engine, VMWare Engine), Data & Analytics (e.g., BigQuery, Looker), and AI (e.g., Vertex AI, Gemini) to drive clients’ digital and AI transformations.

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Client Impact

How we helped a global retailer exit a data center in five months

McKinsey designed a tailored migration strategy for a global retailer operating in more than 20 countries and successfully led their application migration to Google Cloud.

Driving operational efficiencies at a mining company

Unlocked $150 million in cost savings in four months by aggregating and analyzing operational data from geographically remote sites and developing predictive maintenance tests.

Improving refinery performance at a major oil and gas company

Reduced energy consumption and enabled predictive maintenance through real-time alerts to managers based on digitally integrating more than 300 variables in refinery management.

Helping a global logistics company increase forecasting accuracy

Increased forecasting visibility from one week to 52 weeks with 95 percent accuracy by building an advanced analytics platform to better predict order volumes.

Supported multi-year cloud transformation for a financial services company

Migrated complex, high availability applications to Google Cloud; implemented Google Kubernetes Engine and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Also, migrated and modernized infrastructure to Google Cloud.

Designed strategy and built a data lake and unified services platform for a government entity

Realized efficiencies from eliminating poor system performance and reliability issues of legacy applications and enabled ability to dynamically scale IT infrastructure. Implemented Google Cloud Observability (Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging), Cloud Key Management Services, Certificate Manager, Secret Manager and Google Cloud Scheduler.

Featured event

McKinsey at Google Cloud Next

We are excited to take part in the Google Cloud Next event to meet with like-minded peers and explore game-changing advancements—from agentic AI, cloud computing, machine learning, data analytics and beyond—and discuss how we can help your organization rewire and outcompete with technology.

From our blog

Blog Post

McKinsey and Google Cloud help companies tap into $4 trillion of business value with generative AI

April 4, 2024 -

McKinsey and Google Cloud are partnering to help clients across industries realize the innovative power of generative AI.

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Blog Post

A world record for Formula E, propelled by McKinsey’s AI

August 2, 2023 -

McKinsey has partnered with Google Cloud to create generative AI capabilities that helped a new electric Formula E racecar to...

Latest Insights

Capturing value in the cloud with McKinsey and Google Cloud

McKinsey estimates that cloud adoption could generate $3 trillion in global value by 2030, yet only 10 percent of companies have fully captured cloud’s potential value. How can organizations move from their current position to achieving cloud’s full potential?

See below for our latest insights and publications on how to understand and capture that value.

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Article

What is cloud computing?

July 31, 2024 -

Cloud computing allows companies to store their infrastructures remotely via the internet, ultimately reducing costs and creating...

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Article

Ending the confusion in cloud transformations: The dashboards and metrics everyone needs

May 24, 2024 -

A cloud transformation has a much greater chance of success if companies know what to track—and how to track it.

Report

In search of cloud value: Can generative AI transform cloud ROI?

November 15, 2023 -

New ROI analysis highlights what it takes to capture the value of cloud computing, and what role generative AI can play.

Solutions

McKinsey brings proprietary assets and accelerators that run on all hyperscalers, including Google Cloud — such as Data X, Cloud Foundations, and LegacyX — to help clients accelerate value capture.

DataX

With DataX, we can deliver end-to-end data foundations for digital platforms at our clients’ premises within weeks, not months. By powering radically faster data infrastructure builds, DataX allows us to quickly build data-driven business capabilities such as analytics, AI/ML, and insightful reporting. Organizations can start small and quickly scale across the enterprise, driving impact with data.

DataX

Cloud Foundation

This product family accelerates deployment of structured, well architected cloud infrastructure by automating and vending “secure by design" foundational products into cloud environments. Used with our rapid delivery models, Cloud Foundation automates security, governance, architecture, and deployments immediately so our clients can capture value from the cloud faster.

Cloud Foundations

LegacyX

LegacyX is a McKinsey capability, powered by QuantumBlack, that simplifies legacy IT system modernization and delivers business value by using generative AI. It employs a range of specialized agents to handle end-to-end workflows, focusing on deriving the intent of legacy systems to develop better processes and accelerate modernization with a repeatable process. The tiered multiagent factory framework automates complex software development flows, modernizing both processes and applications simultaneously.

LegacyX