Enterprise customers are some of the toughest nuts to crack, which is why Apple has scampered off to IBM for help, and Google too is supposedly in talks with its own partners. The Information reports that Google could partner with HP to enable its Google Now 'virtual assistant' to be used as a search tool for corporate data.
The idea is for employees to search for information such as financial data or inventory information in a way similar to how people search for weather updates, or a restaurant. Google Now currently does not display information that hasn't already been indexed by Google's servers, meaning you only see what Google knows.
This isn't the case with Cortana or Siri, which apart from looking through Microsoft's and Apple's suites respectively, can also pull information from other applications. Google is now looking to extend Now's capabilities to do exactly this, starting off with integrating corporate databases and applications.
