We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's stable. There isn't really any downtime."
"The security and privacy policies of G Suite make it efficient, and the organizational data is secure."
"G Suite and all of Google were the first to have a built-in multifactor authentication without needing to purchase another product."
"The corporate email feature on Google's Gmail is fantastic."
"The solution is stable."
"G Suite is a powerful suite of tools for messaging and collaboration that has met the fundamental needs of my company, both increasing productivity and reducing costs."
"The solution is easy to use, and you don't need a lot of knowledge for it."
"The email is excellent."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."
"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"Better integration without visual misrepresentation with the Microsoft suite is required."
"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."
"The initial setup is not intuitive at all."
"G Suite is not as powerful as Microsoft Office Suite, so sometimes we have to change to Excel and PowerPoint."
"The price could be reduced."
"Google Workspace doesn't have some of the Excel and PowerPoint presentation functions you get with Microsoft Office."
"The UI could be more graphic and sassy, but otherwise, it is quite functional."
"I don't recommend Google Workspace to others. It's expensive. Also, Google doesn't have enough oversight on their partners, so you will face some difficulties dealing with them instead of directly with Google."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies."
"In the next release, I would like to have a more intuitive tutorial."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
Google Workspace is ranked 5th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 92 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, Google Cloud Storage and ProtonMail, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile and Box. See our Google Workspace vs. Office 365 report.
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