The best collaborative calendar by far
June 08, 2022

The best collaborative calendar by far

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Calendar

We use Google Calendar to manage and share our schedules across teams. The main business problem, in this case, is to know people's availability when you want to set up a meeting with them. Before using Google Calendar we used to ask people for their availability by email, which was extremely tedious, especially when trying to arrange meetings with many people across several teams. Being able to view everybody's availability on a single WEB page was kind of a revolution and made scheduling meetings way easier than before.
  • Share people's schedules across the organisation.
  • Setup meetings with multiple people almost instantly.
  • Integration with Google video conference (Google Meet).
  • Very simple and intuitive UI.
  • The WEB site UI is great, but the smartphone app has limited functionalities (very limited UI).
  • Does not interoperate well with non-google solutions (difficult to set up meetings with people using Microsoft Outlook).
  • Sometimes slow to load the Web page.
  • Very significant improvement in employee productivity (more than 10%), because people spend much less time arranging meetings.
  • Essential tool to develop remote work within the company during Covid.
  • No need to build an email infrastructure (significant cost reduction in IT infrastructure).
Google Calendar is better than Microsoft 365 in pretty much every aspect of the product. Microsoft Outlook's user interface is slow, non-intuitive, and even stressful to use in the long term, while Google Calendar is fast, responsive, and intuitive.

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

Yes

Are you happy with Google Calendar's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Calendar live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Calendar go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Calendar again?

Yes

Google Calendar is definitely a great collaboration tool in cases where you have scheduled meetings with many people and do not want to spend hours asking for their availability. With Google Calendar you basically just have to select a spot when everybody can join. I would say Google Calendar is very appropriate when most people you invite to meetings use Google software as well. However, If most of the people you collaborate with use Microsoft 365 then Google Calendar is much less appropriate since it does not interoperate seamlessly with Microsoft tools (Outlook, Teams, etc.)