We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Microsoft, Zimbra and others in Email Applications."If I'm addressing certain emails from banks — automatic emails, like OTP, etc. — I can create rules and forward that OTP to the specific email IDs. You can create rules and deliver mail to different groups using the forwarding feature. It's handy."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple to use."
"It's certainly easier to meet. We have offices around the world and the ability to have a company meeting on Google Meet platform makes it a whole lot easier to actually have everybody virtually in one room at the same time."
"The features we use quite a lot are the mail and Google Drive. We can store documents and share documents between both employees here, locally in Sweden, and we have an office in the US as well. It's a very easy way to share information and documents, and have online meetings and stuff with Google Meet. We use it quite a lot."
"Valuable features of the solution are that it's simple and effective."
"There are several online forums and a lot of support materials online."
"We use Google Sheets extensively for things like sharing plans, data, test reports, and more."
"It is quite a useful tool. It allows many people to work on a document. You can actually provide review comments and tag anybody to make the comment changes. You can also attach a document in Google Chat."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The solution is not user-friendly and it doesn't integrate that well with Microsoft Office, which is one of the bigger business apps on the market, compared to Google Sheets and applications of that sort."
"Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult."
"The UI could be simplified and made more user friendly."
"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."
"Google Workspace needs to be more flexible, like Microsoft Excel."
"Some concerns over security, but there are moves to address this and provide admin tools to secure content and adhere to data protection regulations."
"If your storage requirements in day-to-day work are large, then it will incur an additional cost since free storage is limited."
"It would be nice to have additional software, such as Microsoft Teams, since our basic edition, Google Meet, cannot record video."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Google Cloud Storage, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Box.
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