Shared Contacts for Gmail Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Shared Contacts for Gmail to connect with other members in my organization. The business problems it solves are missed emails or not receiving emails in a timely manner. I would say I use Shared Contacts for Gmail at least several times per day. Colleagues provide feedback that this is very helpful for keeping in contact.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for connecting with colleagues. Not as helping for finding all colleagues with whom I would like to connect. Would like to see more AI use. My feeling is that implementation of AI could greatly help with finding colleagues with whom I would like to connect, which is the only real issue I have with the program.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it all throughout our Gmail Interface. It allows us as a company to send contacts and documents to each other in an efficient manner. The problem that it addresses is that we don't have to input so much information from Excel Spreadsheets and it helps us cut back and save time doing the things that matter to us.

Likelihood to Recommend

Needing to find someone's name in your organization and there are 10 people with the same first name. It allows you to find the contact you're looking for with ease. Also, sharing a contact with another contact has never been easier. Allows for viewing documents that much more simpler too.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Shared [Contacts] for Gmail is being used across the whole organization. In our case, relying heavily in remote working dynamics, having access wherever we are to our contacts is very important. Having the ability to share them with our team and keep track of our closest clients makes our works easier in terms of reach and contact.

Likelihood to Recommend

Shared Contacts for Gmail is well suited for organizations that generate and coordinate long term partnerships and that have a big remote working component as a main form or working. It is less appropriate with organizations dedicated to sales and performance based ways of working. I would recommend it for medium size organizations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As part of one of our organization's big acquisitions, we inherited a business unit that is a majority Google shop. Amongst the various categories of Google platforms that we started using via this business unit, there was a major gap in the way contacts, contact lists, and distribution lists could be not only shared within this business unit, but also with other business units outside of this newly acquired business. Add to this the security and compliance element. Shared Contacts for Gmail basically filled this gap in an outstanding fashion!

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>If you are an all-Google shop, where most of your document management is using Google, having this app is imperative</li><li>Conversely, if you have a future roadmap of moving to Microsoft Office 365, then you are better off without it</li><li>Especially great when used with Google Drive</li><li>Not great for business users who predominantly use iOS-based platforms</li><li>Easy to build custom groups and lists that are dedicated for a subset of business users within your organization</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Shared Contacts [for Gmail] is a company wide used system. It allows an easier access to all information and supports with the transparency-oriented company policy. As well provides a look at the full directory, which impacts in the fastness of the communication.

Asking a workmate for someone else information is a thing of the past, you just write their name and the information populates right in front of you. Its easy, reliable and fast.

And it auto populates updates, which is an amazing thing.

Likelihood to Recommend

When working with several people at the same time, being able to access the full directory [with Shared Contracts for Gmail] makes things 100% easier. Provides a faster look at the company wide directory and grants access to contact whoever is needed.

Now if its a company like mine; merged between two, sometimes it becomes a little complicated, due to the fact that it doesn't recognize some email domains (outlook based) and can cause problems sometimes when sending emails (you get an undeliverable email response, and sometimes the emails do get send and other they don't). And they won't pop-out as easy as a recommendation. First you would get the gmail based email and then the 'outsider' email.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The thing I like most about Gmail shared contact is that it helps organizations to exchange contacts from inside the system. You can easily connect a client to the party and share their contact details with others while you deal with them. You can also create several groups within which you can share info. This is especially valuable for a large corporation with large numbers of employees. You will have everyone's contact details at the side without having to look it up for shared contacts.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well-designed to address a major issue with Google contacts. It has helped us save a significant amount of time. Our greatest problem has been getting a single address book for all of our internal and external connections that everyone on our team could use. This app quickly fixed the problem without requiring us to make any changes to our existing setup. They've taken a very simple, missed element in Google contact, namely messages sharing, and taken it to a whole new stage.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we are starting to use shared contacts amongst our management team for maintenance list and team member information. We plan to create additional shared contact lists amongst our teams and Department Leaders to make working within their departments more efficient.

Likelihood to Recommend

Shared contacts are great for companies that need to organize contacts within their organization. For example: if you have multiple vendors and they have multiple sales representatives, then sharing them with all people involved with inventory is great. Or, if you have a large facility and need to organize your outside maintenance team, this is a great way to do it. You can also share groups within your family or friends to keep birthdays up-to-date etc. However, if you are looking for a way to organize contacts for future business and to keep track of contacts and notes and share them within your team. I am not sure that this system is robust enough for that.