Google Apps for Work continues to forge ahead, with the company revealing Tuesday that 2 million businesses are now paying to use some part of its online productivity suite.

The service, which includes a business-specific version of Gmail and a version of Google Drive that lets employees work together, competes against established players like Microsoft as well as newcomers like Dropbox and Quip.

As part of its push to expand the reach of the product, Google announced eight “recommended partners” that offer add-on products to help companies with needs that Google doesn’t necessarily tackle itself.

“These third party solutions have been reviewed by Google for the quality of integration; we have done a pretty robust assessment of their security policies, including penetration testing; and we’ve picked solutions in categories that we thought were the most critical business needs of our customers in extending Google Apps,” said Apps for Work Managing Director Rahul Sood.

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