We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Microsoft, Zimbra and others in Email Applications."We find Google Drive and mail useful for our services."
"Ability to co-edit and collaborate on content."
"Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner."
"Google Chat is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"Users can work anywhere with an internet connection."
"The document sharing in which multiple people can work on the same document. To go along with that is the archiving of documents. If you mess up a document, it's easy to go get a previous version."
"Google Workspace is an excellent tool for communicating with people, which allows users to collaborate and edit files simultaneously."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"The synchronization is a bit of an issue."
"The user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better."
"We noticed that sometimes when we forward emails to somebody, it is being relocated as part of the communication somewhere else. The traceability and other features should be improved."
"There are too many steps for sharing pictures."
"The solution is not user-friendly and it doesn't integrate that well with Microsoft Office, which is one of the bigger business apps on the market, compared to Google Sheets and applications of that sort."
"There are times the plugins or extensions in the solution do not work properly and I need to disable and enable the solution."
"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."
"Not all tools are available in the one facility."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"Replication needs improvement."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, Google Cloud Storage and ProtonMail, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.
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