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"Accessing their services is simple, user-friendly, and does not require a lot of technology.""The most valuable features of Google Drive Enterprise are the secure file-sharing service. It is necessary to communicate with people, and the safe large file transfer is good. It's very useful and critical for us to communicate with each other nowadays. They integrate well with other Google solutions, such as Google Documents and Google Spreadsheet.""Google Drive is much more stable compared to Dropbox. Dropbox is a catastrophic solution. I used Dropbox because I manage many files, and I lost files because the synchronization between Dropbox and my customer folder was unstable. I use Google Drive to back up my files. Google Drive is the best solution to manage the backup between my Apple computer and my personal computer.""I like the ease with which you can share files securely with the team. It makes file and information sharing much easier than sending attachments.""I can check emails from anywhere, and use the applications wherever I am.""It's a stable product.""The solution is easy to use, has good performance, and is secure.""The initial setup of Google Drive Enterprise was simple."

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"The collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document.""It is a decent tool for collaboration, especially if you are already using other Office products.""The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week.""This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page.""Ability to collaborate with others in one location.""The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast.""The level of stability is good.""The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."

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"The product’s document management and automation features are very limited.""The ability to share documents with outside clients can be improved. It is difficult to share documents with outside clients, and that's why I am looking at some other solution. If you use Google Drive, they want you to use all of their Google Suite, but not everybody uses Google Suite for document creation. It is not a great solution if you are working with a company that doesn't use Google Suite.""The desktop app could be improved, especially how it functions in the Windows environment.""In the free version, managing the files and folders and data is a little difficult.""I would like better security because I use Google Drive to store some personal documents, It would be nice if I could password protect some files.""The product lacks in the area of documentation.""It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added.""The Google Sheets should have more functionality."

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"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now.""The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included.""The solution is like a CRM, so the initial setup is complex. It takes a few days to deploy the solution and the length of time depends on how large the company's topology is and what the client's demands are.""Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release.""Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.""The product is behind in development and lacks some features.""The GUI is outdated.""This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."

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  • "The program is very affordable."
  • "It is inexpensive and the cost is per user per month."
  • "There is a monthly fee that we pay for the use of this solution and the price is fair."
  • "It has a yearly license."
  • "I have evaluated Amazon AWS and IBM solutions. Amazon AWS has competitive prices for cloud storage and backups."
  • "The costs could be lower, but they are reasonable for the value they provide."
  • "Google is much cheaper than Microsoft."
  • "The price could be better."
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  • "One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."
  • "There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."
  • "Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."
  • "It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."
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    Overview

    Drive Enterprise enables you to transform how your business stores, accesses, and secures files, all without extensive change management. Drive Enterprise is a standalone offering with usage-based pricing that includes all the features of Drive.

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

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    Comms Service Provider15%
    Educational Organization7%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Government13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Retailer9%
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    Midsize Enterprise36%
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    Google Drive Enterprise is ranked 7th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 53 reviews while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Google Drive Enterprise is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Google Drive Enterprise writes "Easy to set up with simple file access and very reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". Google Drive Enterprise is most compared with Google Workspace, Citrix ShareFile, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox and Amazon WorkDocs, whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HCL Connections.

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