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How Gordon Food Service Saves 20,000+ Hours Monthly with Gemini Enterprise AI Co-Workers

GFGordon Food ServiceSource: GOOGLE CLOUD ↗January 2025

Gordon Food Service deployed Gemini Enterprise across 7,000 employees, saving 20,000+ hours monthly through AI-powered digital co-workers with no-code agent creation.

Impact

20,000+

Hours Saved Monthly

7,000

Employees Enabled

Challenge

AI backlog exceeded team capacity. Needed to connect AI to multiple enterprise systems (ServiceNow, SAP, JIRA, Confluence, GitLab) without custom integrations.

Solution

Deployed Gemini Enterprise with pre-built connectors and no-code agent workbench, enabling 7,000 employees to build their own AI agents grounded in internal data.

Tools & Technologies

GEGemini EnterpriseAI Assistants

What Leaders Say

“The culture we are creating engrains using AI as a reflex so that the creativity of our people comes to life with richer context.”

Brendan Bonthuis, CIO, Gordon Food Service
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Full Story

Gordon Food Service needed to integrate AI into every employee workflow while managing access across Google Workspace, ServiceNow, SAP S/4, JIRA, Confluence, and GitLab. Custom-building integrations would be time-consuming and the backlog of AI use cases exceeded the teams capacity.

The company deployed Gemini Enterprise with pre-built connectors to enterprise applications, advanced Gemini models, and a no-code workbench enabling employees to build their own AI agents grounded in internal data.

7,000 employees now have AI-powered productivity tools, saving 20,000+ hours monthly through improved decision-making and content creation. The no-code agent builder eliminated development bottlenecks.

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