The New Gold Standard for Business, Employees will cheer you for ditching Microsoft
December 19, 2019

The New Gold Standard for Business, Employees will cheer you for ditching Microsoft

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with G Suite

The pantheon of Google apps known as the G Suite is a gift to startups, and have seen it used immersively by multiple former employers. While individual Google apps are powerful, and generally near best-in-class for their respective applications, adopting all of the apps under the G Suite aegis provides knock-on benefits as each app used integrates seamlessly with the rest. Particularly useful in the realm of file sharing/storage to have everything consolidated, but also nice for more mundane things like copy-pasting, formatting, etc.

Pros

  • Simplicity and intuitiveness contribute to a beautiful, clean, and professional UI that makes Google apps easy to learn and a pleasure to use.
  • Integration between spreadsheets, PDFs, text documents, etc. without the bugs and constant, maddening design flaws inherent in the counterpart Microsoft offerings.

Cons

  • I've been advised by people smarter than me that Google apps don't have the highest levels of security - they're great for work that isn't highly sensitive or have statutory security requirements.
  • In various apps, Microsoft apps will offer a greater range of functionality (at the cost of usability, complexity, and poor UI/UX).
  • Tremendous productivity advantages.
  • Zero cost!
As any user can relate, Microsoft apps are riddled with performance issues, bugs, and fundamental design flaws. To use MS 365 is to accrue a list of grievances and petty hatreds. G Suite, by contrast, doesn't always offer the full range of functionality that the MS apps do, but they actually do everything they purport to without the bugs, performance issues, and baffling design choices. Learning Google apps is a joy, and in my estimation their UI/UX is the gold standard for web software.
As a G Suite user you will enjoy frequent updates, negligible/non-existent performance issues, and the full firepower of the Google enterprise driving development.

Do you think Google Workspace delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Workspace's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Workspace live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Google Workspace go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Google Workspace again?

Yes

A typical company without a ton of capital to spend on a premium product will find that the G Suite offers everything they'd wanted. When I begin new jobs I always pray the new employer uses G Suite, since I can be confident knowing I'll be able to hit the ground running. G Suite might not be appropriate for everyone, but it is superior to the suite of Microsoft apps in practically every regard.

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