Google Workspace Essentials

Google Workspace Essentials

Google Workspace Essentials

51 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Workspace Essentials	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Google now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails includes Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs, as well as Google Meet, Google Drive, Forms, Sites, and Keep, in a bundle minus a gmail account. Basic Essentials supports (via Meet) meetings with up to 150 participants, and Google Drive with…	$8 per month per user

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Google Workspace Essentials

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	Google Workspace Essentials
Considered Both Products	Google Workspace Essentials Rolando López Gomar Communications Director Chose Google Workspace Essentials pricing, availability and ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Clark Senior Network and Security Administrator Chose Google Workspace Essentials We use both in concert with each other, and they work well when setting up a device for hardened security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Google Workspace Essentials Microsoft 365 has a better calendar at times, but its interface is clunky and outdated. Google offered better cloud access, more security features, and a better user experience for employees. Incentivized Helpful? Tania Gallegos HR Generalist / Talent Recruiter Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace Essentials is easier to use in general, has faster access to attached files, and is easier to organize. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Google Workspace Essentials We have started to use Smokeball Legal Software as opposed to Google for many of our chat and calendar services. It's more functional, secure, and has less downtime. We had hoped for Google integration, but it does not appear that is coming, so unfrankly, we have to move on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Google Workspace Essentials - Gmail is better treated by spam filters, and it is more seldom when our messages go to the spam folder in the recipients' mailbox - ProtonMail did not have a dedicated meeting platform, and it was difficult to match the invites with the meeting room link - The layout of Gmail … Incentivized Helpful? NM Naor Melamed CTO Chose Google Workspace Essentials We started with Google and integrated with those services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace Essentials allows for more features to be used and seems to break/branch things into a more organized way. Dropbox Business is decent, but the user interface isn't as friendly. We primarily rely on Google Workspace Essentials, as it seems to be more popular … Incentivized Helpful? EL Evelyn Lee Operations Manager Chose Google Workspace Essentials Basically, it was easier to deploy and we were having some issues with the older Microsoft version, and we thought Gsuite had a friendlier environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace is easier to use and access. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Program Manager Chose Google Workspace Essentials It's the beast of all beasts and the only platform we really considered when building the organization. A lot of that was due to Google Workspace Essentials' price point: as a nonprofit, we're always looking at ways to cut costs, and Google is extremely affordable and prices … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Google Workspace Essentials There is absolutely no comparison between Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Essentials. As I mentioned before, almost everyone uses Google either personally or with their business. Therefore, it is so very easy to adjust to Google Workspace Essentials. Google also makes it way … Incentivized Helpful? David Calvert Pastor for Creative Arts Chose Google Workspace Essentials Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Google Workspace Essentials
Small Businesses	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10
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Enterprises	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Google Workspace Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google Workspace Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	Google Well-suited for: Fast-paced drafting ideas, docs, charts, sheets, etc. Love it for client calls as well. Google Meet runs in a web browser; you don't need to download any special software. Shared Drives are great for sharing information; the ability to add a Google Notebook to them is the icing on the cake. It is less appropriate when Wi-Fi or the internet is spotty, or when you need heavy-duty Excel macro data crunching. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Google Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time. Easy to share and store files in Google Drive. Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Google Record option to be there in Google meet ability to share documents outside google accounts need to be looked at Improvement in conversion to MS office based documents and converting those documents to googles format needs a little work. Will be good to have a pdf to word converter and vice versa Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Google Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Google It is so easy to use, very intuitive and the site looks nice. There is no hint of the old DOS days in the look and functionality. Let's be real, Google Workspace Essentials is attractive and easy on the eyes and even offers a dark mode if you want to rest your eyes a bit or are in a mood for such Incentivized DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Google Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google. Incentivized David Calvert Pastor for Creative Arts Read full review
Return on Investment	Google Our fundraising and development efforts nearly doubled 2020-2022, largely in part to the organizational tools within Google Workspace Essentials. We've opened up the capacity to work more closely with contractors in a more collaborative nature because of GWE's capabilities. It was integral to our brand overhaul. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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