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."The product can scale easily."
"I use Keep to assign tasks to a team of programmers, which is very easy."
"It's more open than Microsoft and easy to use."
"The features we use quite a lot are the mail and Google Drive. We can store documents and share documents between both employees here, locally in Sweden, and we have an office in the US as well. It's a very easy way to share information and documents, and have online meetings and stuff with Google Meet. We use it quite a lot."
"It's stable. There isn't really any downtime."
"The email is excellent."
"G Suite Enterprise is user-friendly, and the technical toolkits and other information are on the website. Additionally, the technical documents are comprehensive."
"It has saved us money."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"Google Mail's spam filter needs improvement. If I'm sending mail to another email user, sometimes it goes to the spam folder, and they won't know unless they check because they aren't seeing it in the primary inbox. They may miss important emails. At the same time, I'm receiving spam that shouldn't go to my inbox."
"Everything is online, so you don't have a client on your desk. Working on email is online work, so can't do work offline and go back online. Sometimes it's not so intuitive. If you answer an email, it puts your answer at the bottom of the existing email."
"I have had issues with my Google Address Book. I have an address book and it is available to everyone, but I cannot add additional users. In Microsoft Outlook, I could easily share certain contacts with other members of my team, but I cannot do so on G Suite."
"The UI could be more graphic and sassy, but otherwise, it is quite functional."
"Less customizations than there used to be."
"The solution could always be more secure, although that doesn't affect me so much."
"There's a bit of a learning curve."
"The stability should be addressed."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"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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