Can't beat the Collaboration with G-Suite
September 24, 2018
Can't beat the Collaboration with G-Suite
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with G Suite
We use G-Suite company-wide as our email management and document management platform. It has come a long way and is a great substitute for the Microsoft Office products and the best part is it's all web-based so documents and email can be accessed from anywhere. The document real-time collaboration is un-matched and we use that feature frequently.
Pros
- Web-based email management. Google continually makes improvements and its most recent improvement with snoozing emails and canned responses really helps with efficiency.
- Real-time document collaboration is awesome and works amazingly. We frequently use this feature while updating a proposal or perfecting scripting.
- G-Suite is a great low cost alternative to other office products particularly on premise microsoft office and since it's all web-based, access is easily provided to any employee or end user.
- With G Suite, it won’t matter whether your team members use Macs, PCs, Linux-based machines, or Chromebooks...everything will look, feel and function exactly the same.
Cons
- The conversations in Gmail takes some getting used to, but once you understand how it works it makes for easier to organization. You have the option to disable it as well. Also, labels could be a little easier to use and could be a little easier to drag emails onto an expanding label.
- I still often find myself using MS PowerPoint for presentation creation. It has quite a few more features and an easier to use UI. But, you can always create a powerpoint pres and upload it into slides.
- The Office 365 apps and of course the on premise Microsoft applications are typically more feature-rich than the G Suite equivalents.
- The fact that everything is cloud-based encourage users to use the products more and collaborate more which enables more efficient employee production.
- We absolutely use it everyday in order to communicate effectively and efficiently with prospects. We use it to create proposals and track conversations that bring in Revenue.
- Since G-Suite is necessary for so many business processes, it is fairly easy to assume great ROI
In terms of productivity, especially if you need collaboration features G Suite seems to be much better than 365. Although 365 is probably more feature rich, it can also seem bloated, the GSuite UI is a little less confusing and more straight forward. I think it's probably a very close comparison between the two. It can sometimes be nice to have the best of both worlds and have access to excel and powerpoint when you need to create advanced spreadsheets/presentations.
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