Bearing Point & Google get sweaty together

OK, so they’d probably call it a business partnership (not what I’ve entitled this post :)) but Google has teamed up with BearingPoint to provide Google-esque search services to mega-corporates in the aerospace, finance and tech industries.

Does this mean BearingPoint is going to provide Adwords management or SEO services? Not quite. From what I have read online about the partnership, BearingPoint will be providing integration and consultancy services around the implementation of enterprise-level Google services (eg, Google search appliances etc).

My bet is that one of the new Google enterprise services to be offered will be corporate Gmail-style email service. Bold prediction? Hardly. I caught a quick glimpse of this CNet article about a new Gmail beta service already offering something similar. As an aside, Google says its revenue from enterprise services grew substanially over the past 12 months. Given the current reliance on consumer search revenue, these announcements are probably part of an overall strategy to grow Google’s revenue from the corporate end of the market.