Overall Satisfaction with G Suite
G Suite is used across the entire organization and across all functions. It's used for email, calendaring, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. The key problems it addresses are:
1) Collaboration on a Specific Document
2) Easy Document Sharing
3) Consistency across operating systems & devices
4) Ease of management for our IT administrators
1) Collaboration on a Specific Document
2) Easy Document Sharing
3) Consistency across operating systems & devices
4) Ease of management for our IT administrators
- Very strong at document collaboration - it's easy to see who's made changes, and to see edits and suggestions.
- Easy to share documents and call-out specific people when collaborating on a document (this sends an automated email).
- Easy to manage the solution because it's SaaS and works exactly the same across browsers, devices, and operating systems.
- Very good security and scalability because it's running on Google infrastructure.
- Key capabilities in Word, Sheets, etc (e.g. Pivot Tables) are intuitive and easy to use.
- Ability to more easily create templates, and work with existing templates for Slides (i.e. creating presentations)
- Better search capabilities in Google Drive (it doesn't seem to be able to effectively search through PDFs and other documents)
- More presentation templates that would make it easier to develop a more compelling presentation
- Make it easy to create a team drive from an individual drive without having to copy each item individually
- It gets us to a consistent way of thinking about collaboration
- From a negative pov, it doesn't work when you're offline (e.g. on a plane)
- It's a relatively affordable per user cost
I'd say that G-Suite is quite similar to Office 365, but its probably pared out and less expensive. It probably doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Office has (for example: in Excel), but it gets you 80% of the functionality in an easy-to-use way, and it's probably more cost effective than Office.