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Google Workspace Essentials
Formerly G Suite Essentials

Overview

What is Google Workspace Essentials?

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…

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Needs no training

10 out of 10
February 03, 2022
Incentivized
I have used Google Workspace Essentials at almost all the jobs that I've done over the last three years. I like using it because I'm …
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Manager in Marketing
Accounting Company, 201-500 employees
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://workspace.google.com/essentials

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $8 per month per user
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Product Details

What is Google Workspace Essentials?

Google Workspace Essentials Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 100GB per user and 2TB pooled. The Enterprise edition supports 250 participants in a meeting, as well as up to 100k viewers of a Live Streamed event, and 1TB per user of Drive space (25TB pooled).

Google Workspace Essentials starts at $8.

The most common users of Google Workspace Essentials are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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February 10, 2022

Google Workspace Essentials has a few issues with syncing and uploading, but it is good overall

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Technician in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Overall, Google Workspace Essentials is a reliable network drive that allows users to share content and update it for work purposes. Sometimes it can be time-consuming in that it doesn't always sync in real-time the way that you would need it to, but in the end, it will do the syncing if you have enough patience. Moving files and folders around can sometimes feel as if it's taking too many steps to accomplish, but I can't think of an easier way right now. It does the job in the end.
Pros and Cons
  • Allows for easy access to documents for purposes of sharing
  • Allows for easy downloads of files/folders
  • The Word/Excel sheets are compatible with how you use it offline
  • Syncing sometimes has issues. There is sometimes a delay.
  • Uploading docs sometimes has issues. It stalls when you are uploading two or more docs simultaneously.
Likelihood to Recommend
The other day I had a folder filled with many files/docs on my PC that needed to be uploaded into Google Workspace Essentials. To upload one at a time was going to be time-consuming, so I tried uploading several at a time, but then I don't know if there was a bandwidth problem, but the uploading stalled. I had to reduce it down to two docs per upload, which was better than one at a time but still time-consuming.
Most Important Features
  • Shared content
  • Easy access
  • User-friendly
Return on Investment
  • Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, my department began working remotely more often, so it was essential that we had some type of network drive/cloud where we could share content.
Alternatives Considered
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 for work purposes. Both are good, however.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
5
Shared content on students and immigration documents uploaded, viewed, reviewed, and occasionally downloaded in the formats of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and pdfs.
Support Headcount Required
5
People who work in education at the administrative level.
Business Processes Supported
  • Organizing / updating / data-tracking of student information
  • Downloading content for use
  • Uploading
Innovative Uses
  • We have been able to keep track of what has been shared, and by whom and when. It has come in handy when we have tried to keep a trail of evidence.
Future Planned Uses
  • It might be useful if we can communicate with one another in real time, such as via speaker / phone, the way that MS Teams allows for to do. But I don't know if this feature will be available for G Suite.
Likelihood to Renew
10
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.
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