Item: Google Meet
Rating: 9
Author: rishabh mishra

Overall Satisfaction with Google Meet

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is primarily used in my organization for seamless virtual meetings between our employees and clients. It is quite a reliable platform when comes to online interaction and provides smooth communication across departments and teams working remotely. It significantly reduces certain business problems like reducing travel costs, real time collaboration with teams and efficiency of teams regardless of locations. Our organization also utilizes in our regular training sessions and large scale webinars. Meets integration with other Google services is just phenomenal, Meet with Google workspace certainly enhances employees productivity, easy scheduling of meetings, document sharing and screen presentations. We also use meet for daily brainstorming sessions, customer presentations, training sessions and large scale organizational webinars. It is quite an incredible tool for day to day use and is very beginner friendly. Its intuitive dashboard is just flawless and one can easily use it without any specified technical knowledge. At last Google Meet ensures smooth professional virtual interactions among organizations which makes it an indispensable tool for us.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Google Meet provides seamless integration within Google workspace with tools like Calendar, Gmail and Google drives making it an effortlessly to invite people.
Users can significantly attach there documents with Google Drive without any hassle. It ensure that all have access to required documents before and while the meeting continues.
Google Meet runs very smoothly in browsers that significantly eliminate compatibility issues and can be run on any device.
Meeting links can be shared quite easily and in just a single click one can join it that reduces technical barriers.
It often works quite well in low bandwidth areas which is truly phenomenal

Cons

Its a great tool but it lacks features like muting and unmuting participants on a single click
If meeting are going a larger basis there must be a hard mute button to prevent participants unmuting themselves.
Its free users cannot record meetings which only available in paid option.
It does not have any cloud storage management facility
AI enabled noise cancellation feature is useful but significantly needs improvement as it often mute human voices along with background noise.

Return on Investment

It's a part of Google workspace so businesses can significantly save up to 50% when opting for it in place of Webex or Zoom
It also eliminates travel cost and saves immense time of employees, Whether they require to attend meetings or training sessions which significantly reduces operations cost up to 40%.
Real time documentations significantly improved miscommunication between employees and project turnaround times by 25%

Usability

Google meets provide a very clean intuitive interface with minimal intervention. Its been a part of Google ecosystem and works effortlessly with tools like drive, Gmail, Calendar. It works smoothly and provides significant features like raise hand and chat features. It can easily be used for large meeting or else for one to one discussions in a single click. Its UI is clutter free and makes it a quite viable option among enterprises. Although its from Google but its prices are significant for even small businesses. New users does not requires specialized training to use this platform and is not overwhelming for them. Its cross platform compatibility is what makes it a truly exceptional tool as compared to its peers which significantly improves user accessibility and convenience. However i deducted one point because it lacks limited meeting controls as well as it sometimes faces audio video quality issues in low bandwidth conditions. At last if you are looking for a software that provides all around performance go for it.

Alternatives Considered

Webex App, Microsoft Teams and Zoom Events & Webinars

It stands out because of its user friendly interface which is quite intuitive and simple to use and its integration with Google work space. Unlike Zoom which comes up with more advanced webinar features. Meet provides ease of use and accessibility. As compared to Microsoft Teams which is great for enterprise collaboration. meet is quite lighter and faster as well as one can organize meetings in a few clicks. On the other hand Webex comes up with robust security and high level enterprise features but its UI is feels outdated as compared to meets clean design. All these tools are quite heavy and significantly lags while using apart from meet which is very light and can even work on web browsers without any hassle. I choose Google Meet because of its seamless integration with other Google apps, minimal setup is required and reliability making it an ideal tool for our regular organization requirements. If a business looking for a tool Google Meet often becomes a right choice as it would not increase operational costs and is a quite budget friendly software.

Key Insights

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

Yes

Are you happy with Google Meet's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Meet live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Meet go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Meet again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Google Calendar, CRM Assistant for Gmail™

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Meet is an excellent software if you require to setup quick business meetings or one on one discussions. Especially for them who are already knowledgeable with Google workspace environment. Meets native integration with other tools like calendars, Gmail, Google Drive is just seamless, It just enable users to use these tools without switching on different platforms. Raise hand like features are quite good as well as shared screen features makes it to present reports and documents in more suitable manner. If organizations are providing training sessions, intensive workshops and other brainstorming sessions they can easily do that with Google Meet. Its simple interface ensures client would not face any technical difficulties while using it. It also lacks some features like attendee analytics which some of its peers have. It also lacks in having built in monetization tools for webinars or integration with some third party marketing tools. Organizations like finance, Health and government sectors often requires high end encryption or specific compliance certification which is not available with every plan.

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Google Meet Seamless Reliable and Efficient Tool for Video Conferencing