Item: Google Drive
Rating: 9
Author: Lucky Griffin Nyabicha

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Drive is used by our organisation as a collaborative space. We collaborate in real-time in editing shared documents, such as Google docs or spreadsheets in Google Drive. Aside from that we also use it as shared storage for documents in other formats such as pdf, word or images.

Pros and Cons

Collaborative platform
Storage point for shared documents such as pdfs
Access to other Google apps such as Google docs from within Google Drive
Smooth link with gmail

Offline Use- Google Drive's user experience would be much better if it was possible to have offline access to some of the functionalities.
Range of editable items- It is not possible to edit some types of documents, such powerpoint in Google Drive. Adding such functionalities would make it serve our organisation better.
Size. It would be great if the allowable space allowed per user on Google Drive was unlimited as opposed to the current 15 GB.

Return on Investment

Enabled remote realtime collaboration on projects, saving time and money.
Reliable storage for shared documents such as pdfs, smoothing out our documentation
Accessible 24/7- Which means we can work at any time demand arises round the clock.

Key Insights

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

Yes

Are you happy with Google Drive's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Drive live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Drive go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Drive again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, LinkedIn Jobs, Anylogic

Likelihood to Recommend

A scenario in which you have multiple teams of people that remotely collaborating on a document such as a magazine. You, as the owner of account whose Google Drive you are using can create folders in the drive and set permissions for who has access to which folders. This access control can extend all the way to individual documents in such as Google docs. This allows for smooth and organised remote collaboration.

Google Drive Review

Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive