We performed a comparison between Google Workspace and Microsoft Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We value the collaboration levels that are offered. Having everything integrated in a single platform is a dream come true for us."
"Good search features, reliable storage, and quick thinking."
"Valuable features of the solution are that it's simple and effective."
"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 more open than Microsoft and easy to use."
"All the Microsoft Office features are available in Google Workspace."
"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 solution is easy to use, and you don't need a lot of knowledge for it."
"Microsoft Exchange is a user-friendly product that is easy to manage and configure."
"What I love about Microsoft Exchange is the good integration since 2013, particularly its integration with the calendar and other software such as Zoom, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, etc."
"We've been using Exchange as an email platform. Our clients require multi-country, multi-regional email collaboration with controlled mail flow. The most valuable feature is the capability of message tracking and the protection of user data."
"It's a very user-friendly application. The mail server is also valuable when compared to other services like SquirrelMail."
"Our customers are satisfied with the features included in Microsoft Exchange."
"The exchange functionalities are good."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The initial setup was straightforward and fast."
"There seems to be a bit of vulnerability on some operating systems, specifically on the iPhone. There isn't as much control as if a person is using an Android. That's a bit of a concern."
"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."
"For Google Docs, if you upload a Word document up to Google Docs, it could mess up your formatting quite a bit."
"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."
"If you use a name with a special character like a slash in the folder, it will crash the migration, with no warning. There is no pre-warning or anything to tell you that if you use characters in a file name that it will crash the migration."
"Despite being an excellent platform, I would very much like Google Docs to be more compatible with Microsoft Word."
"Improvements to G Suite would be the ability to collaborate more easily and better quality video compression in Google Meet."
"It would be nice to have additional software, such as Microsoft Teams, since our basic edition, Google Meet, cannot record video."
"The main problem with Microsoft products is that we're constantly required to install patches and fixes."
"From a reliability perspective, they need to improve the search engine, it is not very powerful."
"The only thing that could be improved is the pricing."
"There are issues when you add your domain to Microsoft Tenant, and you try to create that. Which is a problem for me."
"Microsoft Exchange could improve by adding artificial intelligence."
"The platform could be more user-friendly."
"For new users, it might take them some time to get used to the product."
"I'd like the archiving process to be faster."
Google Workspace is ranked 1st in Email Applications with 92 reviews while Microsoft Exchange is ranked 3rd in Email Applications with 78 reviews. Google Workspace is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Exchange 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 Microsoft Exchange writes "Very stable with an easy-to-use email management system". Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp and Google Cloud Storage, whereas Microsoft Exchange is most compared with Zimbra Collaboration, KerioConnect, HCL Domino, Open-Xchange and Superhuman. See our Google Workspace vs. Microsoft Exchange report.
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