Channels: Google Workspace

Company updates that actually land in Gmail.

Replace all-staff Google Groups with audiences from your HRIS, send emails that look designed, and see who opened and clicked.

Gmail
Integration details
Category
Channels: Google Workspace
Connection
Sends to Gmail inboxes
Setup
Days, not weeks
Security
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR
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What connects

The data your programs run on.

Gmail is the inbox for companies on Google Workspace. ChangeEngine sends designed, personalized emails and newsletters to Gmail and replaces company-wide Google Groups for people comms.

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Fields you can use

Audiences from your HRIS: department, location, manager, role, start date and custom fields. Personalization with merge fields like first name and manager.

You stay in control

Every email is previewed and test-sent before a person publishes it. Follow-ups go only to people who missed the first send.

Who sees it

Editors only see what their role allows, and every change is logged.

Triggers

Events that start programs on their own.

When something changes in your system of record, the right people hear about it on the right channel. Nobody on the People team presses send.

Start date

New hires get a welcome email in Gmail before day one, with their first-week plan.

All-staff update

Company news goes to an HRIS audience instead of a Google Group, so it always reaches the right people.

Missed it

People who did not open the first email get one follow-up, and nobody else does.

Newsletter day

Your newsletter goes out designed and on brand, ready to scan on any device.

Policy change

Only the people a policy applies to receive it, by location and employment type.

Results

Opens and clicks roll up by team, site and manager.

What you can do

Six jobs your team stops doing by hand.

Audiences instead of Google Groups

Segments come from your HRIS and stay current without anyone editing a group.

Emails that look designed

Branded emails and newsletters, built without code and previewed before they go.

Personal at scale

Merge first name, manager and location into every email.

Gmail and Google Chat together

The same update can reach Gmail inboxes and Google Chat spaces, plus text and your hub.

Follow-ups to only the people who missed it

Resend automatically to people who did not open.

Proof of who read it

Opens and clicks by team, location and manager, ready for leadership.

In detail

How it works, in practice.

Audiences from your HRIS, not lists

Every Gmail send targets people by department, location, manager, role or start date, straight from your HRIS. New hires are included on day one and leavers drop out on their last, without anyone editing a list.

One draft, every channel

Write once and send to Gmail alongside Google Chat, text and your hub. Each channel gets a version that fits it, and follow-ups go only to the people who missed the first send.

Proof of who it reached

Delivery, opens where the channel reports them, clicks and replies roll up by team, site and manager, so you can show leadership what landed and fix what did not.

Setup

Live in about two weeks.

Your services team runs the setup with IT. When you need something that is not in the box, your forward deployed engineer builds it.

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01

IT approves the connection

IT approves SSO and the sending setup. We send the checklist ahead of the call.

02

We map your fields together

We connect your HRIS so Gmail audiences come from live employee data, not groups.

03

Programs go live

Your team test-sends to themselves, previews it and publishes the first real send.

IT and security

Why IT says yes.

Your People team moves fast. Your IT team keeps control of every connection.

Certified

SOC 2 and ISO 27001. GDPR compliant, with data residency in the US, EU or Canada.

Access

Single sign-on over SAML or OAuth, with optional two-factor authentication for editors.

Provisioning

SCIM provisioning, and content shown by HRIS attributes like role, location and employment type.

Encryption

Employee data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and editors only see what their role allows.

Governance

Word-level audit logs, role-based editors, and AI providers contractually barred from training on your data.

Your domain

Run your hub on your own subdomain, like central.yourcompany.com, with a couple of DNS records.

SOC 2 certified
SOC 2
ISO 27001 certified
ISO 27001
GDPR compliant
GDPR
FAQ

Questions teams ask before they connect

Does ChangeEngine replace Gmail?

No. People keep reading email in Gmail. ChangeEngine handles who gets what, the design and the reporting.

Can it replace our all-staff Google Group?

For people comms, yes. HRIS audiences stay current on their own. Keep groups for anything else you use them for.

Does it also post to Google Chat?

Yes. One message can go to Gmail and Google Chat spaces, plus text and your hub.

Can we see who opened an email?

Yes. Opens and clicks are reported for every email send, by team, location and manager.

Can we draft from Gemini?

Gemini support for the ChangeEngine MCP is set up with our team. Ask us and we will walk you through it.

Is it secure?

Yes. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, with SSO over SAML or OAuth.

Run it from your existing AI

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot to do the work.

The ChangeEngine MCP connects the assistant your company already approved. Build audiences from this integration's data, draft a send or pull last week's read rates in plain words. A person on your team publishes every send.

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