Item: Google Drive
Rating: 8
Author: Tushar Misal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Drive to save the business documents. It helps us to share the documents securely with authorized users only. Also, we can preview a few files such as pdf and images within Google Drive only. It also helps keep the versions of different files whenever we upload the same file.

Pros and Cons

Organization of files and folders
Version management
File sharing

Support different file formats for preview.
File uploading on mobile devices needs to be improved.
Can add "Shared By Me" option same as "Shared with me" option.

Most Important Features

Document sharing
Requirement management
Maintaining different versions of file on cloud rather than taking risk of hard drives.

Return on Investment

It helped organization to reduce hardware costs.
Securing hard drives of important documents was difficult, now this problem is solved by drive.
Sharing the files over email was causing problems hence read-only sharing was used to protect the documents and share them as well.

Alternatives Considered

We used Google Drive from the start. As Google Drive satisfies all my needs, we didn't shift to other products.

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

Slack, Microsoft Teams

Likelihood to Recommend

It's very user-friendly, users can quickly learn to share, and save their documents. Also one can manage their documents as they manage them on their hard drives. Add or remove the shared users easily, also uploading and deletion of files are easy. It has a trash facility where it can store the deleted items like recycle bin on the computer.

Google drive to store , share and manage your documents !

Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive