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Migrating to ChromeOS marks a major step toward a secure, cloud-first workplace, but it also brings one common question: What data does the readiness tool actually collect?
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool was built to help IT teams evaluate their environment, identify app and device compatibility, and prepare for migration, all while maintaining full transparency and privacy.
This article breaks down what data the tool collects, how it safeguards that data, and why employee activity remains completely private.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool provides IT teams with actionable visibility across their current environment, focusing on application usage, device readiness, and peripheral integration needed for a ChromeOS migration.
Its Data Collectors operate within a defined time window, tracking usage patterns that support migration planning while aligning with the GDPR principle of Data Minimization.
Application Logs – Records when apps start and end in the foreground and background.
Peripheral Details – Identifies connected devices such as monitors, barcode readers, and printers.
Device Metadata – Captures basic identifiers like device name and domain once per machine.
Device Name, Domain Name – Identify the originating device.
Process ID, Process Name, Product Name – Identify each application instance.
Window Title, Start/End Time – Calculate total usage duration.
Browser Usage and Version Data
Extension Details (which extensions are active, and on which devices)
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is an IT environment assessment solution, not a user monitoring system.
Usernames or passwords
Keystrokes or mouse clicks
Personal documents or browsing content
Health, financial, or other sensitive information
This separation keeps the focus on operational readiness, never personal behavior.
Every stage of data handling follows a defense-in-depth approach with encryption and controlled access.
All data is protected with AES and RSA encryption, both in transit and at rest.
Log files are encrypted locally using AES keys.
Those keys are then encrypted with the server’s RSA public key and decrypted only by its private key.
Only authorized administrators can view readiness results.
The web dashboard requires the private key created during deployment, available only to the deployer.
Collected data remains securely inside the organization’s boundary.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool adapts to your preferred deployment method.
Deployment Flow | Infrastructure Focus | Data Storage Location |
Enterprise Flow | Active Directory / On-prem | Network Shared Folder or GCP Cloud Storage (or both) |
Other Deployment Options Flow | Cloud / UEM infrastructure | Direct upload to GCP Cloud Storage |
During collection, logs stay temporarily on the user’s device. After encryption, they upload automatically after midnight; if the device is offline, the upload resumes once it’s back online.
Think of the ChromeOS Readiness Tool as a secure digital consultant. It quietly observes which apps run, how long they’re active, and which devices they rely on while remaining blind to private content.
Its design philosophy is simple: gather operational insights, protect personal boundaries, and foster organizational trust.
Every data point the ChromeOS Readiness Tool collects supports one purpose: helping your organization move to ChromeOS with confidence. Built on transparency, minimal data collection, and strong encryption, it empowers IT teams to make informed migration decisions without compromising employee privacy.
In the era of digital transformation, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool proves that readiness and responsibility can move forward together.
In the modern digital workplace, browsers are the front door to every online activity, from accessing cloud platforms to handling internal systems. Yet, with so many different browser types and versions running across multiple devices, it can be difficult for IT teams to maintain consistency, security, and control.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool solves this challenge with its Browser Insights section in the web dashboard. It provides organizations with a complete view of browser activity across their fleet, showing which browsers and versions are in use, what extensions are installed, and how browsers are distributed across devices and domains. This clarity helps teams identify outdated browsers or potentially risky extensions and take quick action to maintain compliance and security.
All data collected by the tool is fully encrypted, never includes personal or privacy-sensitive information, and is accessible only to authorized users. The platform is also SOC 2 certified, ensuring that every piece of data is managed with enterprise-grade security standards.
Many companies still rely on unmanaged browsers like the free versions of Chrome or Edge. While these are suitable for everyday users, they lack the advanced controls and protection features needed for enterprise environments. Over time, that gap in management and security can expose organizations to malware, phishing, and other browser-based attacks.
A great example comes from Snap Inc., which adopted Chrome Enterprise and its managed Chrome browsers to support its global workforce. By using built-in extension controls, Snap was able to block unverified or high-risk add-ons and allow only trusted extensions. The company also implemented Chrome’s zero-trust access model, ensuring that corporate web applications could only be accessed through compliant, secure browsers and devices. This proactive approach significantly reduced exposure to browser-borne threats and streamlined IT management.
Another study by Forrester Consulting revealed that enterprises using Chrome Enterprise avoided millions of dollars in breach costs and compliance fines. Organizations that had previously used unmanaged browsers struggled to maintain visibility, leaving them open to data leaks and phishing attempts. Chrome Enterprise changed that by providing centralized management, policy enforcement, and automatic security updates, closing the door to many of the attacks that exploit outdated browser versions.
These stories show how stronger browser management directly improves security and productivity, and how using a readiness tool like yours helps organizations identify where they currently stand and what needs to change.
The Browser Insights section of the ChromeOS Readiness Tool doesn’t just present data; it empowers decision-making. IT teams can instantly see which browsers are outdated, which extensions are being used, and which devices are out of compliance. Based on this analysis, the tool even recommends upgrading to the Chrome Enterprise Browser, guiding organizations toward a more secure and manageable environment.
For companies planning a move to Chrome Enterprise or ChromeOS, this data is invaluable. It allows them to clearly understand their current browser landscape, prioritize updates, and plan a smooth transition to a secure, cloud-ready ecosystem.
In the modern business landscape, the contact center serves as both the frontline of customer satisfaction and a vital engine of productivity. Businesses are moving from restrictive legacy systems to agile, cloud-native platforms that empower teams and safeguard data. This shift to ChromeOS modernizes infrastructure while elevating customer experience (CX) through faster logins, secure cloud operations, higher agent productivity, and AI-enhanced support.
Industry leaders such as Korean Air, Wayfair, and TELUS have transformed their contact center operations with ChromeOS.
Every second an agent spends waiting for technology is a second lost in serving customers. Legacy systems caused long delays, forced updates, and frequent downtime.
Korean Air: At its largest contact center in Seoul, outdated devices took minutes to boot. With ChromeOS, agents start in seconds, saving valuable time for customer service.
Wayfair & TELUS: Legacy endpoints slowed Google Workspace and Gemini adoption. ChromeOS reduced login times to mere seconds, improving productivity and enabling high-volume call handling. TELUS achieved logins three times faster than before, a crucial gain for customer agents.
Contact centers handle sensitive data daily. ChromeOS strengthens protection without adding complexity.
Korean Air & Wayfair: Built-in protections such as automatic updates, sandboxing, and verified boot removed the need for manual patching or antivirus software.
TELUS: Using TELUS Desktop Stream with Chrome Enterprise Premium, context-aware access controls and data loss protection created a zero-trust framework, securing hybrid work without VPNs.
ChromeOS allows IT teams to focus on innovation while agents gain reliable tools.
Streamlined Operations: Wayfair eliminated over 5,000 annual VDI support tickets and unlocked millions in projected savings within six months. TELUS avoided costly infrastructure refreshes by combining ChromeOS with Cameyo, enabling more calls per hour.
Agent Empowerment: Korean Air improved workspace design using compact Chromebox devices, supporting multi-monitor setups for complex customer interactions, leading to higher call throughput and satisfaction.
ChromeOS integrates seamlessly with Google Workspace and Gemini to empower agents.
Korean Air: Second-level agents handling complex cases now receive AI-driven real-time assistance.
Wayfair & TELUS: Wayfair uses Gemini and NotebookLM for knowledge sharing. TELUS enables AI-enabled workflows via Cameyo, giving agents browser-based access to all critical apps regardless of device or location.
Every migration journey starts with assessment and planning. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool provides data-driven clarity before deployment, evaluating IT environments to determine readiness.
Ensuring Smooth Transition: The tool classifies Windows applications as ChromeOS-ready, Possibly Ready, Unknown or Blockers. It recommends virtualization solutions, including Cameyo for “Possibly Ready” or “Blocker” apps, ensuring seamless operation of legacy systems like TELUS and Korean Air.
Data-Driven Security & Efficiency: The tool identifies potential challenges early, saving time and resources. All data remains secure within the organization using AES and RSA encryption. Only authorized users access readiness insights via private keys, aligning with zero-trust principles and ChromeOS’s security-first design.
By leveraging the ChromeOS Readiness Tool, organizations can confidently transition to ChromeOS by minimizing disruptions, ensuring virtualization success, and maximizing the return on investment through higher agent productivity and streamlined IT management.
In today’s rapidly changing public sector landscape, governments are expected to deliver greater value to citizens while managing shrinking budgets and evolving responsibilities. For the town of Hamina, Finland, this challenge became a catalyst for transformation. By embracing a cloud-first approach powered by ChromeOS, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud, Hamina not only modernized its IT environment but achieved remarkable gains in efficiency, simplicity, and cost reduction, cutting operational expenses by an impressive 60%.
Hamina’s IT team recognized that maintaining outdated systems and depending on external support was unsustainable. Their mission was clear to drive: Cost Reduction, Simpler IT Management, Remote Access, and Efficient Digital Governance.
The transformation began in the education department, where ChromeOS devices immediately reduced support tickets and boosted productivity. Inspired by the results, Hamina expanded deployment across its entire administration, now equipping an 800-person workforce with approximately 3,700 Acer ChromeOS devices across all municipal departments.
Transformative Results for a Modern Municipality
The move to Google solutions produced measurable, long-term financial impact:
60% Reduction in Local IT Costs: Streamlined operations and a simplified infrastructure drastically reduced server and network expenditures.
Lower Licensing Expenses: Eliminating traditional software licensing led to substantial recurring savings.
In-House IT Support: With fewer technical issues, Hamina dissolved its reliance on a 150-person external support team, bringing IT management back in-house.
Built-In Security Savings: ChromeOS’s integrated security removed the need for additional antivirus and hardware protection solutions, directly reducing operational costs.
ChromeOS gave Hamina’s IT team the agility to focus on innovation instead of maintenance, transforming how digital operations are managed.
Centralized Control: Browser settings, extensions, and security policies are now managed centrally from a single console.
Hands-Free Maintenance: Automatic background updates eliminate downtime and reduce the burden on IT technicians.
Reduced Complexity: By eliminating VPNs and legacy dependencies, the municipality lowered its IT management and security overhead.
The combination of ChromeOS, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud built a flexible, connected, and mobile workforce.
Work-from-Anywhere Capability: Employees can securely access work from any location without VPNs or physical network constraints.
Browser-Based Desktop Environment: Using Google Cloud Platform and partner solutions, Hamina created a browser-based desktop-as-a-service, allowing seamless access to both traditional and cloud-based applications.
Increased Productivity: Employees quickly realized the advantages of ChromeOS devices, which include faster workflows, simplified access, and consistent performance across departments.
Through this approach, Hamina set a new benchmark for digital governance in the public sector, proving that cloud-native solutions can achieve cost efficiency, operational agility, and long-term sustainability.
Every successful digital transformation begins with an accurate understanding of the current IT environment. For municipalities and public organizations planning their move to ChromeOS, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool serves as a critical first step, offering data-driven clarity and confidence before deployment.
Before investing in new devices or migrations, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool analyzes application usage and device and peripheral compatibility. This early visibility prevents costly surprises, delays, and downtime, ensuring a controlled and predictable migration process aligned with budget goals.
ChromeOS Readiness Tool classifies existing Windows applications as ChromeOS-ready, Possibly ready, or Blockers, giving IT teams a clear roadmap for transition. For applications that require virtualization, the tool provides Cameyo Recommendations, helping organizations adopt ChromeOS smoothly just as Hamina simplified operations across its departments.
Public sector security is non-negotiable. ChromeOS Readiness Tool guarantees that all assessment data remains securely within the organization, protected with AES and RSA encryption protocols. Access to readiness dashboards requires a private key generated during deployment, ensuring that only authorized personnel can review migration insights.
The tool provides an overall readiness score and detailed compatibility breakdowns, enabling leaders to make informed, data-backed decisions quickly. This strategic clarity aligns with the principles of transparent, efficient, and future-ready governance.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool turns the initial migration challenge into a guided, data-driven journey, empowering public institutions to modernize confidently. For towns like Hamina, it reinforces every modernization goal, such as cost reduction, simpler IT management, remote access, and efficient digital governance.
With ChromeOS and ChromeOS Readiness Tool, municipalities can transform legacy infrastructure into a secure, sustainable foundation for the digital future, delivering more value to their citizens while doing more with less.
In highly regulated sectors like finance and healthcare, maintaining security and compliance isn’t just an IT objective; it’s a legal and operational necessity. Yet, traditional operating systems often make this mission harder, creating vulnerability gaps, demanding manual oversight, and driving up costs.
Forward-looking organizations are turning to ChromeOS, discovering that a cloud-native, zero-trust environment delivers both built-in compliance readiness and simplified management. By adopting ChromeOS, regulated industries are achieving stronger protection, reduced IT workloads, and a foundation for sustainable digital growth.
ChromeOS transforms enterprise security through an Enhanced Security by Design approach. Its multi-layered defense model features sandboxing, verified boot, and automatic updates, which protect against malware and ransomware by default.
For organizations managing sensitive data, this design is game-changing. ChromeOS operates on a read-only system that blocks unauthorized executables, minimizing ransomware exposure and reducing the attack surface. This inherent protection removes the need for costly third-party antivirus tools, streamlining IT operations while strengthening overall security posture.
Across industries, leaders are leveraging ChromeOS and Chrome Enterprise to operationalize zero-trust security and meet stringent compliance standards without adding administrative complexity.
Case 1: Cake Digital Bank (Finance)
As Vietnam’s largest digital-only bank, Cake Digital Bank faces strict oversight while maintaining rapid growth.
Zero-Trust Architecture: Using Chrome Enterprise Premium, Cake enforces centralized access controls, data loss prevention (DLP), and real-time protection from phishing and ransomware. Context-aware policies based on user identity, device, and network ensure continuous verification and secure access.
Simplified Compliance: The read-only OS has made audits and certifications like ISO and BCIS far easier to achieve.
Data Control: Chrome Enterprise centralizes data management within the browser, preventing local storage and reducing data leakage risks. IT administrators use policy-as-code templates to apply consistent access restrictions across the entire organization.
Case 2: Stallant Health (Healthcare)
At Stallant Health & Wellness, patient care comes first. Technology simply needs to enable it. Their old systems, however, were difficult to secure and maintain, complicating HIPAA compliance and slowing operations.
Security and Compliance: ChromeOS features such as automatic updates, sandboxing, verified boot, and encryption now protect sensitive patient data seamlessly.
Enhanced Protection: Integration with Okta Device Trust and USB security keys streamlined compliance certifications and strengthened authentication.
Financial Benefits: The reduced risk profile from ChromeOS helped Stallant qualify for lower cybersecurity insurance premiums, a tangible cost benefit of improved security infrastructure.
Case 3: Strawberry Hotels (Ransomware Recovery & Business Continuity)
Even outside healthcare and finance, the ChromeOS security model proves critical in regulated and data-sensitive operations.
When a ransomware attack halted most systems, Strawberry Hotels (formerly Nordic Choice Hotels) leveraged ChromeOS Flex to recover in just one weekend, a feat that would have taken weeks with legacy systems.
Rapid Recovery: Over 2,000 devices were converted in 48 hours across 200 hotels, restoring operations with minimal IT involvement.
Resilient Security: ChromeOS Flex provided immediate, built-in protection, reducing dependence on employee vigilance, which is a crucial factor for a global workforce of 17,000 staff speaking 70 languages.
Business Continuity: The deployment underscored how ChromeOS Flex can maintain compliance and operational resilience even during crises.
Security and compliance gains are only part of the equation. For regulated enterprises, ChromeOS also brings a dramatic reduction in IT overhead, freeing teams to focus on innovation and strategic priorities.
50% Less IT Management: Stallant Health cut device management time in half after adopting ChromeOS, allowing clinicians to focus on care, not tech support.
Silent Updates: Automatic background updates minimize disruption for healthcare professionals and financial agents alike.
Measured Efficiency: Independent assessments estimate that ChromeOS reduces IT support costs by over $1.1 million across three years, largely through simplified endpoint management.
Strategic IT Focus: Korean Air’s IT department eliminated antivirus scheduling and update downtime, redirecting resources to higher-value initiatives.
Together, these outcomes show how ChromeOS converts security maintenance from a burden into a business advantage.
While ChromeOS provides the foundation for security and compliance, successful adoption in regulated industries begins with a strategic assessment. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool plays a vital role in this process by helping organizations evaluate, plan, and execute secure migrations with confidence.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is a comprehensive readiness assessment solution that analyzes an organization’s devices, applications, and peripherals to determine ChromeOS compatibility. It delivers a data-driven roadmap for migration, helping IT leaders identify blockers before deployment and plan for long-term compliance.
Secure and Private Assessment: All data collected remains safely within your organization, protected by AES and RSA encryption. Local log files are encrypted with AES keys, which are then secured using the server’s RSA public key.
Controlled Access: Only the administrator who deployed the tool and holds the private key, can view readiness results in the web dashboard, ensuring strict data control.
Compliance Documentation: The tool maintains transparency through its GDPR Compliance & Data Security Report, supporting privacy and regulatory assurance.
Strategic Virtualization Planning: ChromeOS Readiness Tool identifies “Blocker” and “Possibly Ready” applications and provides expert recommendations for virtualization solutions like Cameyo. For organizations reliant on legacy ERP or medical systems, this guidance ensures secure access continuity post-migration.
By using the ChromeOS Readiness Tool, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and other regulated organizations can transform migration complexity into clarity, stepping into a secure, compliant, and cloud-ready future with confidence.
In today’s rapidly evolving enterprise landscape, digital transformation is no longer optional. It's the essential path to agility, competitive advantage, and security. For decades, organizations have relied on bulky hardware and complex legacy systems that slowed innovation and increased management overhead. Now, a cloud-native ecosystem built on ChromeOS is redefining how enterprises modernize operations, reduce costs, and empower their employees with next-generation AI tools.
Transitioning from legacy endpoints to a cloud-first, secure environment requires more than just new devices. It demands a cohesive, modern platform. ChromeOS, Google’s cloud-native operating system, acts as the foundation of this transformation.
By integrating ChromeOS with Google Workspace, employees gain seamless collaboration through real-time editing, secure file sharing, and unified communication across tools like Gmail. The result is a dynamic workspace designed for hybrid and remote teams worldwide.
A major barrier in modernization is maintaining access to critical yet outdated applications. This is where virtualization plays a transformative role. By virtualizing traditional software to run securely in the browser, Cameyo allows enterprises to retire costly legacy VDI infrastructure while maintaining continuity for essential business tools like ERP or contact center applications. Through the ChromeOS Readiness Tool, you can now check the application compatibility for Chrome Blocked or Possibly Ready applications easily.
The shift to ChromeOS and Workspace provides the lightweight, cloud-native infrastructure needed to fully embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) and achieve measurable productivity gains.
Legacy devices often caused long login times and frequent IT interventions. ChromeOS eliminates these pain points, reducing boot-up and login times from minutes to seconds. Across a composite organization, this improvement alone returns an estimated 90,000 hours of productive time per year reinvested in meaningful, customer-facing work.
Korean Air uses Gemini, integrated within Google Workspace, to assist second-level agents in handling complex customer issues. Gemini enables instant information search across Google Drive, drafts professional responses, and translates inquiries in real time, empowering agents to serve with greater confidence.
TELUS, meanwhile, experienced three times faster login speeds after deploying its ChromeOS-based enterprise computing stack with Chrome Enterprise Premium and Cameyo. This improvement directly translates to more calls handled per hour, improving both employee satisfaction and customer experience.
TELUS, managing digital workplaces for nearly 60,000 global team members, built an integrated enterprise stack using ChromeOS, Google Workspace, Cameyo, and Chrome Enterprise Premium. This allowed them to retire their expensive Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and avoid a $15 million infrastructure refresh. Their new TELUS Desktop Stream, a zero-trust, browser-based app streaming solution powered by Cameyo, enables access to over 100 applications securely through the browser. The result: login speeds three times faster, significantly improved employee satisfaction, and higher operational efficiency across call centers.
As one of the world’s leading airlines, Korean Air strategically adopted ChromeOS to move away from legacy dependencies like Active Directory. In its 24/7 Seoul contact center, slow devices once took five to seven minutes to boot, creating productivity bottlenecks and security risks. By deploying Chromeboxes running ChromeOS, Korean Air achieved instant speed and reliability, freeing IT resources for innovation. Building on this success, the airline introduced Google Workspace with Gemini for complex issue handling and is now expanding company-wide adoption using Cameyo to seamlessly support legacy ERP and Office applications.
The town of Hamina, Finland, achieved a remarkable transformation by deploying ChromeOS, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud across municipal departments. Their browser-based desktop-as-a-service model enabled secure remote work and eliminated the need for VPNs. The outcome: a 60% reduction in local IT costs, fewer support tickets, and simplified management. Freed from maintenance tasks, IT teams now focus on high-value projects that continue to drive digital innovation across public services.
Every successful migration begins with a clear roadmap. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool provides that clarity, offering a data-driven foundation to plan your transition confidently.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is a comprehensive compatibility assessment solution that evaluates your IT environment to determine readiness for ChromeOS. It analyzes devices, applications, and peripherals to produce actionable insights that guide a smooth and secure migration.
Eliminates Guesswork: ChromeOS Readiness Tool classifies existing Windows applications into ChromeOS-Ready, Possibly Ready, Blocker, and Unknown categories, helping teams prioritize resources and anticipate challenges early.
Identifies Virtualization Needs: The ChromeOS Readiness Tool dashboard highlights applications requiring virtualization and recommends trusted solutions like Cameyo, ensuring business continuity even for legacy software.
Ensures Security and Compliance: Using AES and RSA encryption protocols, ChromeOS Readiness Tool safeguards all collected data within your organization. Access is restricted via a private key, aligning with zero-trust security principles.
By using the ChromeOS Readiness Tool as a first step, organizations like TELUS, Korean Air, and Hamina can begin their transition with confidence in reducing risk, minimizing disruption, and unlocking the full potential of ChromeOS, Workspace, and AI tools like Gemini to drive productivity and innovation.
As enterprises continue to evolve, the shift to cloud-native, AI-enabled infrastructure represents more than an IT upgrade. It's a strategic reimagining of how work gets done. With ChromeOS, businesses are not just replacing systems; they’re building smarter, faster, and more secure workplaces where employees thrive and innovation never slows.
Modern browsers are the new perimeter. As employees use web apps, SaaS platforms, and browser extensions, the browser itself becomes the primary attack surface, and protecting it is now a core part of enterprise security. Google’s Chrome Enterprise Secure Browsing brings browser-first protections that make this surface far safer, and when you combine those protections with an upfront assessment from the ChromeOS Readiness Tool, you get a clear, low-risk path to adopt Chrome Enterprise at scale.
Chrome Enterprise builds multiple browser-centered protections into one platform so IT teams can reduce risk without piling on agents or complex tooling:
Threat protection at the browser layer. Chrome Enterprise blocks phishing and malware at the browser, surfacing risks before they reach endpoints. This reduces the window of exposure for zero-day attacks.
Policy-driven control and centralized management. Admins can apply fine-grained policies (browser settings, extension controls, site access) from the Google Admin Console to enforce consistent behavior across the fleet. That central control reduces configuration drift and speeds remediation.
Integrated data-loss and access controls. The platform supports contextual controls and integrations that help stop data exfiltration from the browser and enable secure access patterns for SaaS and internal apps.
Less complexity, faster fixes. Because Chrome is updated automatically and centrally, security fixes and policy updates roll out fast, shrinking the time attackers can exploit vulnerabilities. This lowers the overall endpoint risk profile.
Chrome Enterprise moves security closer to where users work, the browser, and lets IT enforce modern controls at scale without heavy endpoint agents.
These browser protections are powerful, but rolling them out successfully across an enterprise depends on knowing three things in advance:
Which browsers and extensions users actually run. Third-party browsers or unmanaged extensions can bypass policies unless the dependency is understood and remediated.
Without accurate inventory and browser insights data, security teams risk breaking workflows, increasing help-desk load, or leaving gaps where policies don’t apply.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool enables organizations to transition smoothly to a secure, managed Chrome Enterprise Browser environment by providing visibility, compatibility insights, and strong data protection.
1. Browser & Extension Visibility: The Browser Insights feature offers a clear view of browser types, versions, and extensions in use across the organization. This visibility helps IT teams identify risky or unsupported add-ons and plan remediation before enforcing Chrome Enterprise policies, ensuring a seamless migration.
2. Application & Workstyle Analysis: By classifying applications as ChromeOS-ready, possibly ready, or blockers, the tool helps IT determine where browser-first policies can be applied and where virtualization is needed. This clarity minimizes disruptions and strengthens security during rollout.
3. Secure Data Management: Assessment data stays securely under your organization’s control, stored in your network share or GCP bucket, protected by encryption, and accessible only to authorized administrators with the private key.
In essence, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool bridges IT assessment and secure browser adoption, giving enterprises the visibility, confidence, and control needed to modernize securely.
Chrome Enterprise Secure Browsing gives organizations a modern, browser-centric security foundation, but to realize its benefits without disruption, you need hard data. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool supplies that data: what browsers and extensions your users run, which apps are blockers, and which devices are ready to be managed, enabling a measured, low-risk rollout of Chrome Enterprise’s security capabilities. Together, they reduce the attack surface, simplify enforcement, and allow IT to move fast with confidence to ChromeOS.
In today’s hyper-connected global economy, the shift to a cloud-native, secure, and flexible IT environment isn't just an advantage; it's a necessity. Organizations worldwide are embracing this transformation to boost productivity, improve security, and simplify management. At the forefront of this movement, Japan stands as a global leader in technological innovation and operational efficiency. However, for any global enterprise, the final barrier to adopting a new platform is often language. A tool that isn't fluent in the local team's language adds friction, creates ambiguity, and slows down strategic planning.
We believe that data-driven decisions should be clear and accessible to everyone. That’s why we are proud to announce a significant milestone in our commitment to global accessibility: The ChromeOS Readiness Tool now offers full, native Japanese language support. This isn't just a simple translation of the user interface. It's a deep localization effort designed to empower Japanese-speaking IT professionals, managers, and technology leaders to plan their migration to ChromeOS with unparalleled confidence and precision. This update removes linguistic barriers, ensuring that our partners in Japan can leverage the full power of the CRT's insights, natively and intuitively.
This update provides a complete, seamless experience for our users in Japan. This is not just a translation of a few top-level menus; it is a comprehensive localization of the entire platform. This effort extends beyond the software interface itself to include all of our supporting user guides and technical documentation. We focused on ensuring that every piece of data, every configuration setting, and every report is now fully accessible in Japanese.
IT professionals can now interact with all critical components of the ChromeOS Readiness Tool natively. This includes:
The Client Applications (Installer and Report Generator): From the very first step of configuration, the experience is native. The Installer Application now guides Japanese-speaking administrators through every critical choice in their native language, from selecting the deployment flow and storage options to configuring the data collection period. Subsequently, the Report Generator application presents its comprehensive organizational overviews, device-specific insights, and downloadable reports entirely in Japanese, making local data analysis faster and more intuitive.
The Centralized Web Dashboards: Data clarity is paramount. Both the Pro Dashboard and the Partner Dashboard are fully localized. This means all readiness overviews, device and peripheral lists , Browser Insights, and even virtualization recommendations are presented in Japanese, allowing for instant analysis without translation.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool Official Website: The journey starts with information, and that information is now fully accessible. The official website, the primary public resource for the tool, is localized. This allows IT leaders and potential partners in Japan to schedule demos, learn how the tool assesses compatibility, access the Resource Center, and even begin the partner journey in their preferred language.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is designed to be a secure, flexible, and user-friendly solution for assessing your application ecosystem, device compatibility, and peripheral integration. By providing a complete, native-language experience, we are making that solution significantly more powerful and intuitive for one of the world's most vital technology markets.
The true value of this update lies in the removal of friction. When an IT team analyzes complex data, any language barrier acts as a "translation tax," like a constant mental burden that slows down comprehension and can lead to misinterpretation. By localizing the entire data pathway, we remove this tax and enable clearer, faster decision-making.
This localization effort extends to the most granular parts of the assessment, including domain readiness visuals and application categorization. When your IT team reviews your organization's application stack, every label, category, and status is now presented clearly in Japanese. This provides several immediate, powerful benefits:
Simplified Result Interpretation: Teams no longer need to pause to confirm the meaning of a specific technical term or category. The data is instantly understandable, allowing for more rapid and accurate conclusions.
Seamless Collaboration: The localized "Assessment Summaries" (reports) can be shared directly with Japanese-speaking stakeholders, department heads, and executives who prefer the Japanese language. This streamlines the approval process and makes sure everyone is aligned on the migration strategy.
Reduced Risk of Error: With all "Configuration Options" in Japanese, the risk of misconfiguring an assessment or misinterpreting a critical data point plummets. This leads to higher-quality data and, ultimately, a more successful deployment.
By removing the language barrier, Japanese IT teams can now focus 100% of their energy on what truly matters: the data itself. This allows them to move more quickly from analysis to insight to a concrete, actionable migration plan, all while using the same powerful, secure assessment trusted by organizations worldwide.
This launch is more than just a new feature; it's a reflection of our core belief that digital transformation should be accessible to everyone. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool enables organizations to build a modern, secure, and sustainable IT future. By providing full Japanese language support, we ensure that users in Japan can lead the charge without compromise.
We are excited to see how this enhancement will empower more organizations in Japan to unlock the full potential of their data, align their technology strategy with their business goals, and confidently embrace the security, speed, and simplicity of ChromeOS.
For service providers and resellers, efficiently assessing readiness for ChromeOS migration across multiple customer environments is critical to scaling business and ensuring client success. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool empowers partners to manage compatibility assessments across multiple organizational domains using a centralized Partner Dashboard.
This approach streamlines multi-client assessments into a high-value, simplified service.
Service providers use a specific setup and workflow to manage multiple customer domains efficiently:
Partners will gain access to the Partner Portal and should complete mandatory training and achieve certified partner status. Upon completing the certification, the partners will receive a partner-specific setup file, which must be shared only with customers. Data collected via generic setup files will not appear on the Partner Dashboard.
Assessment data must be stored in GCP Cloud (Storage Bucket) for the Partner Dashboard to display it. Partners and customers can choose:
Partner Storage: Data stored in the partner’s shared GCP bucket.
Customer Storage: Data stored in the customer’s own GCP bucket.
Note: Data stored on-premises (e.g., Network Shared Folder) will not appear on the Partner Dashboard.
ChromeOS Readiness Tool uses encryption. Partners access each customer’s detailed readiness reports using the private key generated during the customer’s initial deployment, ensuring secure and authorized access. Note: The partner can access the readiness data only if the customer shares the private key. Without the private key, the partner will not be able to view any data.
The Partner Dashboard offers a consolidated view across all managed domains:
Domain Management: Partners enter individual encryption keys to access specific companies and view domains.
Readiness Overview: Displays company readiness status, device counts, and distribution.
Drill-Down Capabilities: View device readiness, ChromeOS Flex readiness, and application status. Filters allow sorting by readiness level.
Strategic Recommendations: Provides insights on peripherals and virtualization, including the Cameyo Recommendation for applications marked as 'Possibly Ready' or 'Blocker'.
Browser Insights: When enabled, it displays browser and extension usage across the organization.
By leveraging the ChromeOS Readiness Tool’s specialized deployment flow and the Partner Dashboard, service providers can deliver secure, scalable, and expert-driven ChromeOS migration assessments, reinforcing their role as strategic enablers of digital transformation.