We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and Microsoft Intune based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Microsoft, Zimbra and others in Email Applications."It is quite a useful tool. It allows many people to work on a document. You can actually provide review comments and tag anybody to make the comment changes. You can also attach a document in Google Chat."
"Google Workspace is an excellent tool for communicating with people, which allows users to collaborate and edit files simultaneously."
"In terms of email, I could probably do the same things with other programs, however, I find 90% of my usage is Gmail."
"What I like most about Google Workspace is the Google Drive app because you can easily access it from anywhere and from any device. I also find the solution easy to use. It's user-friendly."
"Google integrates well with our system. G Suite has an open API, so you can connect any open system with Google capable of working with API. This is the main reason we use it."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"It's certainly easier to meet. We have offices around the world and the ability to have a company meeting on Google Meet platform makes it a whole lot easier to actually have everybody virtually in one room at the same time."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution is easy to use, simple to understand for those new to using it, and combined with the other Microsoft products it makes for an overall good package."
"The initial setup is not intuitive at all."
"For Google Docs, if you upload a Word document up to Google Docs, it could mess up your formatting quite a bit."
"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 price could be reduced."
"When I compare with Office 365, G Suite has fewer features."
"The UI could be simplified and made more user friendly."
"I am not a big fan of how Gmail organizes the mail. I find it complicated to see which mail from which users send at which date. Especially if there is a lot."
"I talked with G Suite recently because my G Suite has a temporary block. I communicated with the G Suite representative or Google representative, and he told me that I sent a lot of emails, so my email was temporarily blocked. But I know I have not sent more than 500 emails daily to reach the limit. I sent only 5,200 emails, but unfortunately, my G Suite account was temporarily blocked for 24 hours, and then he resolved it. I think they need to improve G Suite because this temporary block is not fair."
"Intune does not provide real-time visibility."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see some kind of analytics report."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 166 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Google Cloud Storage, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl.
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I agree with @Saiyed Shahab Ahmed. You should also consider the management overhead of having multiple productivity tools.
Intune is more recommended for Microsoft OS or Microsoft products. On Chromebooks, if you are going with Google tech stack of Office apps, Google Workspace will be your go-to option in this case.