Google Drive Makes Sharing Easy
April 05, 2017

Google Drive Makes Sharing Easy

Melissa Kuehnle, M.A. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive

We use Google Drive to share documents and spreadsheets between two or more coworkers. It allows the freedom to comment, edit and add to documents without bulking up our inboxes with attachments. Google Drive also allows me to have access to my documents when I am not on my office computer and am off-site or at home. Writers can also make documents read-only to show their work, but protect it as well. It really is a helpful resource for departments who shuffle documents back and forth. It is also very green and environmentally friendly.
  • Document Sharing
  • Document Editing
  • Document Access from Off-Site Locations
  • Document Preservation
  • Photo Sharing
  • Track Changes
  • Mirroring Word Processing Programs
  • Better Search Function
  • It has made our office more green.
  • It has made sharing documents easier and more efficient.
  • It has made editing and following drafts easier.
  • It has made photo sharing easier and less bulky.
I believe that Google Drive is easier to use because I have Gmail and can access it right from my Google platform. It is a seamless transition from one Google program to another. Dropbox is an external program that is good for photo sharing, but since I have Gmail, Google Chrome and Google Drive, it is just easier to stay in the platform.
Instead of sending photos back and forth with a colleague and bulking up the MBs in your inbox, you can drop all the photos in a folder on your Google Drive and share it, so that whoever you choose will have access to those photos, no matter where they are. You can also create a document and share it with others so that they can access it, add to it and comment on certain pieces of it in a more organized way than sending a document back and forth.

Google Drive Feature Ratings

Versioning
8
Video files
Not Rated
Audio files
Not Rated
Document collaboration
10
Access control
9
File search
6
Device sync
6
User and role management
9
File organization
8
Device management
6
Performance
8
Reliability
9
Storage Reports
6