Google Workspace Room for Improvement

Jan-Kobza - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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. 

If you need to open a second mail for comparison, that's not possible. When you switch from one view to the other, you can't keep one email open that you'd like to answer and a second one that you want to review. This isn't possible in Google Mail because it's an online tool, not an on-premise tool like Microsoft mail.

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AM
Assistant vice president at JAIN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LTD

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.

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SAGAR LAKHANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Human Resources Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees

Google Workspace does a pretty good job, so it doesn't have that much room for improvement, but what would make it even better is if its apps, for example, Gmail, could integrate with more apps, such as Evernote and specific cloud-based platforms.

I know many third parties don't like working with each other, but if there's a way to integrate the solution with more apps, and it could be in one seamless system, that would be even better.

In the next release of Google Workspace, I'd like it to have a predictive text or template feature, for example, in Gmail. When you're ready to craft an email, it would be great if the app automatically generates specific words, phrases, or sentences based on data pulled from prior Gmail conversations or chats. Google is doing this to an extent, but it still needs more improvement.

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Pranay Bokade - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales-Bid Specialist at Mastek Ltd

The solution could improve in a variety of ways, including:

1. If you don't have internet access then only you can access the end-to-end functionalities of the tool otherwise only limited functionalities are accessible. 

2. If your storage requirements in day-to-day work are large, then it will incur an additional cost since free storage is limited. 

3. You can experience challenges while Integrating it with some existing business tools. 

4. Some of the features are not that effective to use as compared to the other products in the market. Google should come up with regular updates and enhanced features and functionalities.

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King Tan - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Director at Aeon Earth Private Limited

I believe Google Drive has potential for improvement. Enhancements could be made in terms of synchronization and the functionality of the Google Sheets app, particularly in areas like formulas and pivot tables, to make it more comparable to Microsoft Excel. Google Chat needs to make improvements so that we can send Excel and PDFs from the mobile app itself. I would like to see Google Bard integrated with the product. 

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Emil Heinemann - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cerberus IT Solutions

In general, it is not living up to expectations.

It's hard to get backups and to get things restored. 

The initial setup is not intuitive at all. 

Technical support could be better.

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HI
Head of IT Operations at Aram Meem (Branch ToYou)

I would rather migrate from Google to Microsoft, as I prefer Microsoft. However, it depends on the company's direction. I'm unsure of improvements, having only worked on it for a little more than a month. The features in Microsoft Outlook are way much better than in Gmail. They provide even for writing an email, for example. It's way more professional with Microsoft than with Google.

Gmail needs to improve. With Microsoft, you can use it on the web version, and you can use Microsoft Outlook. Google has the web version. However, they don't have something like Microsoft Outlook in a way that seems to be as professional.

I haven't explored all of the current features yet. I'm just using the features that I need. That said, I just use Microsoft instead for the things I find lacking in Google. For example, while I know Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and all of that stuff are similar to Google Sheets, I tend to use Microsoft instead since I can access and understand how to use those apps better.

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JK
Senior Desktop Analyst at Tech Mahindra

G-Suite is excellent for what we're trying to do, but it could use some extra features. For example, it would be helpful if we had a seamless way to convert Excel macros to Google Sheets. We use the OneLogin to authenticate users logging into G-Suite. We'd like to see a lot of the same information provided from Microsoft Active Directory, such as the user's location, telephone number, etc. If G-Suite could develop this type of service, that would be amazing.

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JunHwang - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Argopacific

There are times the plugins or extensions in the solution do not work properly and I need to disable and enable the solution. 

The solution is lacking documentation and it would be helpful if there was an organized guide.

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Neill Walker - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Agile Consultant at Secret

Google Workspace has limitations as a document or file management system. Without a workspace account, manual actions are required to perform tasks such as managing groups of people. Additionally, managing permissions individually is a time-consuming and inefficient process. It's difficult to articulate, but the process is not very streamlined.

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Shiv Khillar - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Of Engineering at Reshamandi

Google Workspace doesn't have some of the Excel and PowerPoint presentation functions you get with Microsoft Office. And also, Google Drive is missing shared drive functionalities like specific permissions, view, read, write, departments, and hierarchies.

Google Workspace should include enterprise-class features that Microsoft 365 or any file-sharing system provides, including managing the hierarchy of roles and permissions and directly attaching groups. Google Workspace should partner with Microsoft 365 to provide the flexibility and functions currently lacking in Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides.

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AL
Project Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are starting their own support system. However, most of it is still knowledge-based. My engineers are more knowledgeable than the G Suite support engineer sometimes. Their support needs to be better in India.

Right now, the software is pretty complete and it has a lot of features that are great. It's not lacking. 

The login and restriction to move are very difficult.

There's a bit of a learning curve.

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DN
Business Administrator at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

The meeting platform of Google Workspace has room for improvement. The meeting platform should be similar to Microsoft Teams, a little bit more collaborative, and easy to set up groups, so our people can chat back and forth.

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MADHAV CHABLANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

Microsoft has Copilot. Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult. I would like to see more integration with different platforms. There are some aesthetics on the AI components that we are working around.

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Dubi Blitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Country Manager at CloudFabrix Software

The solution could always be more secure, although that doesn't affect me so much.

The next trend in email is automation, as email becomes hard when you need to do maintenance, put in the files, and remember where you put stuff. Automation can take away the noise, so to speak. 

That said, for us, since a lot of the communication is done on Slack, email is not used as much anymore. It used to be distribution lists and it was difficult to maintain the inbox. However, now, using Slack, it's not a big issue anymore.

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Sa’Ad Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Sustainable Attainable Lifestyle at Tiny Toronto

There are 120 different products and Google is ready to copy their competitors and vice versa. Some of them work, and some of them don't. There are many newer tools with no-code environments which allow for a leaner self-owned system, where I'm not tied to paying hundreds and thousands of dollars a year to another company.

In the next release of G Suite Enterprise, it would be a benefit to have mapping integration. For example, receiving the location on who you're interacting with and where people are coming from.

The mapping integration feature should not be an afterthought, but an active part of engagement with the people. If I send out a post to social media because emails are not a thing anymore, you're doing it through the social channel and people respond to it. "This is where I am and here's a picture of my backyard, my company is called Tiny Toronto and we build homes in backyards." This should get mapped on a map, Google's good at maps. The marketing generation between people tagging themselves on a map, you have that information accessible in that platform that you can make outreach to them. HubSpot hasn't evolved fast enough to go at that velocity. It's on hold because it doesn't have the mapping integration into something.

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Dhiraj Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Information Technology Manager at Kaleyra

The solution could improve the Google Cloud identity login to laptops that sometimes do not work. The collaboration for Google sites, they are not equivalent to others, such as Sharepoint. 

In an upcoming release, self-services, identity governance, and overall features could improve. Additionally, there should be a feature to allow users to connect to Password Anywhere to manage their passwords, such as password resetting. All these features are already provided by Microsoft Office 365 and they are leading in these areas.

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Adrian Mukisa - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Kabale University

The solution could improve by having more frequent updates.

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KK
Commercial Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We need more functionality with Google Sheets. Sometimes I find that, since I've used Excel in the past, there's not as much feature parody between Microsoft's Excel and Google Sheets. Excel seems to have more features than Google Sheets. That's probably true with Google Workspace overall. It just doesn't have as many features and isn't as feature-rich as Microsoft Office.

The learning curve is a bit higher on the solution than, for example, Microsoft Office.

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Daniolo Medrado - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Innovation Officer at eMotion

G Suite is not as powerful as Microsoft Office Suite, so sometimes we have to change to Excel and PowerPoint.

Google Slides and Google Sheets have a lot of room for improvement. Also, Google Data Studio is not great when compared to Power BI. Power BI is much better than Google Data Studio.

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Marcelo_Marciano - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Executive - Special Accounts at Iron Mountain Incorporated

The solution needs to be more user-friendly and improve its tools and features. Additionally, access to the specific tools inside the application is not easy to understand, so you need to go through many menus to find out what is needed for particular tasks. It's not easy in Microsoft Office because everything you see can be visualized. It's faster and simpler to use the tools, but in Google Docs, we need to work around many of them and understand how they work and the functions required for the Worksheet application.

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Marek Gmyrek - PeerSpot reviewer
Development manager at ASDAG

In Google Photos, if you want to share some pictures and generate a view link to send it to somebody else, you have to go through five steps, which is absolutely silly, in my opinion. There are too many steps; this should be an easy task if you want to share five pictures with your friends. 

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IS
Senior Manager/ Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The administration aspect, including the UI and implementation, could be simplified and made more user friendly. I have one integration issue which is when you reply to an email, there is no option to create an event, which is something you get in Outlook. Events need to be created separately, which is unnecessary, and that's one specific point that recently caught my attention. 

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Jacky Hood - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at FieldDay Solutions, Inc.

The problem with the presentation is that if you upload a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and you convert it to Google presentation, the slides or pictures, their images are not editable. You can't edit the slides that you brought in. They're just images.

That's a big defect in this. That's why we almost never use it because it converts Microsoft slides into pictures.

Another thing that would be nice is to have more storage because each person has 15 gigabytes and I just hit 90% again. Then I have to go in and delete a bunch of emails and I hate losing my old emails, but I don't have any choice. That's the limitation. 

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MC
CEO/CTO at Xandor Systems

I think Meet is not as well-positioned as Zoom. That application needs to be enhanced to make it more feature-rich and easy to use. It's easy and has all the essential features, but it's not as popular as Zoom. And I think Google Translate could add more features. For example, it could be integrated when typing in a document or a web browser like Grammarly. I use Grammarly to review the way I write English, and the services included in Grammarly are excellent. Or translation features could be embedded in all the Google applications. It would also be helpful to use translation offline when you are using a desktop, tablet, or cellphone that can't access the web.

For years, everyone has been expecting Google to add a real-time AI interpreting service where you can speak in your language, and Google translates it into other languages for other users. For example, you have a cellphone or web instant messaging integrated with free phone service. They could also use translation services to make it easier to communicate among people because not everyone knows exactly different languages. So I can speak in Spanish, and you understand me in English because you listen to me in English. And if you need to ask something because you are not clear about anything that I said, you can ask a question in your language, and I listen to you in my language.

It would be an excellent service for Google. They already have a global scope and their own platform. Google has an advantage because it is at the top of the internet services. They aren't the leader in all services, but they are well-positioned as the top searching engine. Google could seize other opportunities to develop and deploy some other services we are hoping for and make things easier for everybody.

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UV
Support Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The product could improve the number of participants allowed in a meeting and the strength of the meetings. It can also improve the sending limit.

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MS
Head of IT at Prerana Motors India

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.

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LV
Senior Project Manager / Project Director at three6five network solutions

I'd like to see some changes; working with images inside a doc can sometimes be irritating because it doesn't move the way you'd like. It lacks an auto-fill feature and when you drag down a number, it doesn't auto-fill. Alternatively, it assumes you want to add a digit onto a value that you don't really want. Microsoft has a copy option where you don't auto-fill, Google Sheets doesn't have that feature. The solution has a complicated licensing structure and it's expensive, especially for small businesses. Their Word and Excel packages are not as powerful as Microsoft, but not everybody needs that. 

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Tomasz Piwonski - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales representative at LizardFS

Google needs to improve its support.

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MA
Regional Manager at VDart

There could be more options in Google G Suite. They can include HD calling for Google Meet.

The layout portion in the calendar for Google G Suite can be better designed. When we get into the calendar and start scheduling meetings, we do have few hiccups here and there. The layout can be a little easier. People from different backgrounds are finding it a little bit tough to understand. It should be more intuitive. At the moment, it has a completely white background. To do power saving, it would be good if they can release a darker background.

There are a few issues with the formatting of Google Docs when they get converted to Microsoft docs. It would be amazing if they can resolve it in the next release.

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Shailesh Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Director at CloudCompanions Technology Pvt. Ltd

The tool should improve its on-prem capabilities to include people who are working offline. The pricing is also a challenge for both the Indian and overseas markets. The tool has a cap of 300 licenses. The product's price has also increased by 10 percent. Businesses are struggling to justify the ROI. Users cannot block emails unless they have a strong firewall. 

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AP
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate

We use Zoom most of the time for official meetings, and we use Google Meet only for internal meetings. I would like to get an improvised Google Meet. It would be good if they can make Google Meet more clear in communication and more scalable like Zoom.

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AR
Consultant at Industry for consultant

Google Workspace needs to be more flexible, like Microsoft Excel. 

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MansoorNathani - PeerSpot reviewer
Product & Migration Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Improvements to G Suite would be the ability to collaborate more easily and better quality video compression in Google Meet. 

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Ralf Weber - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Director at Kentik

Some people complain that Google Mail is inflexible. It was advanced 10 years ago, but other solutions are cleaner and clearer. 

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it_user616638 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at KEF Holdings Limited

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. Also, 90% of the world is still using MS Outlook, so more users need to convert to the G Suite side. 

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Abhishek Gowsika - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Operations Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I haven't come across any area that's really lacking. 

I'm not sure if Google Drive has a customizing feature, however, if it did, then it would be better. We'd like the flexibility of customizing the way you want it to look.

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Sheila  V. - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

What needs improvement in Google Workspace is the Google Drive app, in particular, making the process of finding the shared and most used files and folders easier. The first time you get an invite to view a file or folder in Google Drive and you view that folder or file, it's pretty easy, but the next time you try to access it again, sometimes, it's a bit difficult to find what was shared with you.

An additional feature I'd like to see in Google Workspace is the option to un-send messages in Gmail. Microsoft has a message recall feature, and this isn't available in Gmail, so it's the feature I'd like to be added to Gmail.

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MT
Digital Marketing Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

From my point of view, there is a lot of room for improvement in the workspace, particularly in the cloud and premises environment. I would like to learn more about how to communicate, edit things, and use the cloud as a hosting environment for a website. I lead IT for websites in WordPress and have been using Google Workspace, but I would love to know more about how I could use Google Cloud for my purposes. 

Additionally, I need to figure out how to manage phones, save things, and use the software for business management.

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HD
Founder Director at a renewables & environment company with 1-10 employees

To a degree, the project management service could be improved. I see the product is picking up task management specifically and we're trying to move away from emails as far as possible, but still sticking to the task management aspect.

Another area of improvement would be on the conversation side if you use the chat functions; it's a bit all over the place. But it again comes back towards the project management side, or rather workflow. To me, everything is a project, that's how I approach that.

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CV
Caribbean Territory Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

G Suite could offer something a little more solid in terms of chat — something that is a little more like Slack and integrates with everything. But, unfortunately, the chat is very basic there. It doesn't offer that many features and feels like it doesn't belong there. 

As far as features I'd like to see, G Suite already has a lot of tools that integrate natively with it. For example, the CRM that we use integrates natively with it. But maybe it could be better integrated with mobile phones and SMS. I don't really use them that much, but the cell phone is our second-most used work tool, so more mobile integration could be great. By that, I mean integration at the call level — logging to calls and stuff like that— could be helpful in some specific cases, but that already is integrated. It has apps, Google Phone, etc., but SMS is the one part that isn't integrated.

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VK
Head IT at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it. We are talking about 2,500 per year for each mailbox, which is very high. 

Also, our users have faced an issue with increasing their email quotas over the last three months. When they tried to bring this about they simply lost out on the money they remitted on their credit or debit cards. I feel this to be a very bad practice. 

We have not encountered any support when it comes to such issues. While we have escalated to their email address, we have found this procedure to be very complicated. It took a week's time to receive a response from when we submitted all the relevant details and it is still not clear if the money has been refunded. 

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RG
Senior Manager, Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The synchronization is a bit of an issue. In Gmail and the G Suite, there is synchronization in the inbox and at times it doesn't sync the way it's supposed to.

Synchronization is an issue that I would like to see resolved.

Also, there are issues when you have an attachment. It may be a problem with my company or an issue with the policy of my company, but it is a universal issue. For example, if you are on your Google account and there are attachments on your calendar, then when you do the synchronization, the calendar attachment won't attach.

This is a problem that occurs some of the time but not always. It would be helpful to correct this issue.

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SW
Founder CEO at Stacqdale

Better integration without visual misrepresentation with the Microsoft suite is required. Right now, I'm paying for everything from my website and everything else under Google suite. I really like it. However, on occasion, when I have to interact, especially back and forth, and particularly on legal terms documents, there's always some formatting or structural issues between G Suite documents and Microsoft Word, for example. 

When you're copying files from one location to another and they say, "Oh, there are already files there. Would you like to just overwrite them? Or would you like to choose them one by one?" I would like, when I'm looking to integrate with a Microsoft user, to be able to make my selections on a selection by selection basis, and then be able to save that as a configuration for that communication between myself on G Suite and them on Microsoft Office. That would be an amazing feature.

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AA
Senior ERP System Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

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.

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CL
Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We've had difficulty using PowerPoint files in G Suite. PowerPoint has some functions that are not available in G Suite, so when you convert from PPTX to the Slides format, they don't work. Also, you might be missing some fonts or pictures too. To stay competitive, Google needs to make G Suite more compatible with PowerPoint.

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HT
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I found that there is no desktop application for this solution, and that's a major fault of this application. I think it would be good if Google can enhance the desktop application for it.

Also, it's a little bit slow because it's a web application and not a desktop application. The performance is not that great as compared to Office 365.

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AS
Director, Middle East, East India & SAARC at DMX Technologies

The pricing of the solution could be better. Maybe they can get some special pricing for it. They have something called a Business Starter, but maybe they can look at still slightly more optimized pricing for the other companies as well.

They could increase the number of third-party integrations on offer.

I don't see any technical challenges or features that are lacking. More or less, they have everything we need.

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it_user1360752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

If I were to think about what could be improved for G Suite for business, if you're talking about automated processes or that kind of functionality, that would be great. If there were pre-programmable items, I think that would be very helpful for me. For instance, there's a lot of steps that I take to line up an agreement. I get a signed agreement, I scan it, it goes onto my computer (which is OneDrive), and then I need to open my email and email my administrator. 

That's a pretty repetitive task. If it is easier to create automated-type items or templated forms, that would be fantastic. 

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 needs to be more intuitive support on offer. I want to integrate more features into my business to get more use out of the solution without having to take hours and hours of time that I just don't have. How to integrate what and where requires research. I don't want to research how to work the solution. I want it to be clear about what it is I can build out and how to do it quickly.

If there was a better way to integrate the solution into all of my other devices, like my phone, I'd be happier with it. I'm using a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 device. If there was a way for all of this to be vertically integrated with Chat, Hangouts, and all the different items associated with the solution, where it would be in one place rather than all over, that would probably make it easier, and make it feel more integrated.

I also do not like how Google tracks every email I send.

With Google, I used to have to log in and pull it up and do everything on a webpage. I just find it much easier to work right off the desktop rather than on a web page, which is why I prefer the Microsoft Office suite.

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it_user997845 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Zeste Informatique

Compared to Office 365, you lose many functionalities. For Example, G Suites cannot share contacts between users.

With Office, particularly with Outlook, people are not using labels but folders. They tend to create folders in folders, and this fails the mailbox migration.

When migrating, we were using iMac migration and people were using special characters in their subfolders. 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. There should be some kind of warning, notification, or awareness regarding bad practices.

There should be a check of the account that you have to migrate that tells you if the Unicode Encoding of the subfolders is valid, and that bad names won't work.

To find the webpage information regarding the migration with email servers, you have to search the website documentation to locate it. This information should be on the front page.

When you migrate with Gmail, there is a lot of information with different functions of what we lost and what we will get. Office or iMaps and several other service line products are displayed as part of it. This section is large and should be in the frontline of the documentation.

In the search, whenever you type migration with Gmail or G Suite, it should be on the first page.

In the next release, personal contact sharing should be included. With Google, you can share documentation, presentation links, almost everything, but not contacts.

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PP
Partner, Cloud Expert at GoCloud

G Suite has improved but there's still some redundancy in the functionality between certain modules. The general Q and A's are different from the Q and A's in Google presentations and Google slides. I think the three could be unified into a single function rather than three different functions. For additional features, I'd like to see some project management area tools, workflow tools around document management, that kind of thing.

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it_user807813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

Some concerns over security, but there are moves to address this and provide admin tools to secure content and adhere to data protection regulations. 

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it_user222417 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

People who are used to Outlook hate it but I’m not really sure what should be improved, as that is feedback that I got. I would love to see threading handled in a more “classic” inbox way. As far as I know, that’s everyone's biggest complaint about Gmail, and in most respects, Google Apps for Education email is just like Gmail.

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AW
Legal Associate at a legal firm with 11-50 employees

With the Internet of Things, a platform that integrates well with others would be even better.

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EW
Senior Consultant/System Analyst at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The UI could be more graphic and sassy, but otherwise, it is quite functional.

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BW
Specialist in IT Security at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mostly needed G Suite for the data to implement the BYOD policy. We're still in the process. Once everything is implemented, my understanding is that it will work well for us, however, it's still very early in the process. Right now, we're still in the testing phase.

We'll need to have more control of the data lake once we have the BYOD policy in place. We need more control in terms of DLP going forward. This solution doesn't seem to really cover that functionality.

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.

There may be some usability issues within the browser.

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SS
Managing Director at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The permission and control should be addressed. It would also be nice to have additional software, such as Microsoft Teams, since our basic edition, Google Meet, cannot record video. 

It would be great if we could develop our own application by our site. 

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AS
Content strategist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Google Meet can have a bit more functionality. It should show the views of more people. Right now, it shows just eight at a maximum, or six. When there are more people on the call, more than eight, everyone is not showing. That's an improvement that can be made so that we can see everyone who actually enters a meeting.

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KB
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In some cases, we are using the Google Meet functions but only when we have external clients. Internally, we are using Slack. Google Meet virtual meeting function is not as advanced as the one in Slack and should improve.

There could be better integration between other platforms.

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RV
key founder and Managing Director at adcareIT

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. 

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CS
Head Of Technology - Toca Social at a media company with 11-50 employees

They can maybe improve its graphical user interface. Google is not really known for having a PC interface. It is just a nice-to-have feature.

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SS
Embedded Design Enginee at ATOMBERG

Google Meet is a very good product, but it's not up to the mark if you compare it against other products like Zoom or Microsoft Teams. These other products are running at a better quality.

When we convert files from Excel into Google Sheets, many of the formulas disappear or are unworkable. For example, there are some conditional formulas that we can use in Excel, but do not work in Google Sheets.

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VM
Founder & MD at Coequal Associates Private Limited

There are quite a few things missing in G Suite. It can create a barrier to some features so that for a particular presentation we might have to move to Microsoft PowerPoint for a presentation. Also, some years ago, the Google Sites were very customizable but now they've become a bit compact, and we don't have the same number of plugins and customizations available. Those are two issues we face. 

For additional features, we currently face a problem with the lack of a remote desktop option. It means that if we're collaborating, I cannot access your desktop the way it can be done with Skype or Microsoft Teams. It's a feature that's used regularly and that's important to all of us and should be something they include in the next release.

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NT
Data & AI expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have found that certain applications, such as G Suite Sheets, are hard to use. They aren't very intuitive. The layout isn't great.

Sometimes, I would like to be able to use the solution offline, and I can't do so. It would be ideal if there was some sort of offline mode available.

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SB
Director Of Information Technology at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Their tool called Sheets is the counterpart to Excel but it doesn't have the same functionality that Excel would have. So usually if somebody needs to go back to Excel or Office, it's because of Excel.

They should incorporate some of the formulas, the ability to pivot tables. For our finance team, anything that requires higher cap calculation or data analytics isn't as good in Sheets as it is in their counterpart tools.

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UM
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

While, overall, I am satisfied with the solution, the stability could be improved, such as the issue of Google meetings being disparate from those on Zoom platforms. 

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AM
Professional Prospect List Building Service Provider, Email Sourcer, Virtual Assistant at Freelance

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.

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PM
IT Director at a analyst firm with 201-500 employees

The price could be reduced.

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AR
Managing Partner / Owner Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I believe that Sheets could have a more functional and user-friendly interface. Google Sheets currently lacks macros and cross-file links that can be found in Excel.

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ET
Works

Despite being an excellent platform, I would very much like Google Docs to be more compatible with Microsoft Word.

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RK
Technical Director at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

The solution doesn't work so well if we put a lot of data on it. I would also like to see G Suite catch up with the Microsoft Excel functionality, it would be useful for us. 

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LF
Software Tester at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The Outlook integration or plug-in for current outlook clients is a huge area for improvement. Calendar, contact, all that can be synched needs to be managed too.

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it_user6219 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 51-200 employees
Fairly frequent performance problems. View full review »
KI
Head of Product at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I used Excel quite a bit. When you switch over to Google Suite, maybe due to the fact that it's a web platform, the shortcuts are not the easiest. I'm quite used to Excel shortcuts. Shortcuts on G Suite are not the best. 

In terms of Google Docs, if you upload a Word document up to Google Docs, it could mess up your formatting quite a bit.  

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PT
CEO at Shivaami Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd.

It needs better Enterprise controls.

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ST
Information Technology Manager at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

When I compare with Office 365, G Suite has fewer features.

The collaboration in Office 365 is more advanced and more developed than G Suite.

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it_user1140666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Google Slides should be able to be available in a "read-only" format, even if they are downloaded. Currently, when you share a slide, it can be edited or even downloaded and edited. We'd prefer it if there was a way to protect them from being tampered with.

The user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better.

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it_user881160 - PeerSpot reviewer
content writing manager at Self-employed

I need more integration features in both Google Apps for Business and Skype for Business. There are certain office productivity features which need to be integrated in them. Also, if possible, some more useful features could be added, and the performance speed could be improved when the internet connection is slow.

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ST
IT Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would ideally like to see a common space in the product where all the tools are shared within the same facility, something similar to Microsoft Teams, where all solutions are provided in one site. That would be a major improvement and an additional feature that would improve the product. 

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reviewer1065939 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

It takes a long time to import the data from G Suite into another platform.
Also, the overall price per user is too high.

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it_user999 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Development at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
- I sometimes am logged out randomly from my account and it's a pain to have to log in again. - I've had some issues with email messages loading too slowly, but it is typically resolved after a refresh. View full review »
it_user4128 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Integration with traditional e-mail clients (outlook) is not there. Huge learning curve and wasted time trying to make calendar sync seamless for end users. Google chat is nice for a quick IM, but not nearly as robust as a Lync or Skype (and thus many people use personal Skype accounts for business conversations, calls and screen shares). View full review »
it_user1206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Marketing at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Because it's all run by a single source, all of your services will be affected by google server outages. I have had more than a few outages here-or-there, which certainly affected my productivity, but these were resolved within an hour. The free service comes with 25GB of storage, which is a lot for some, but certainly designers who E-mail large files might use up the space quickly. View full review »
EW
Head of Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording.

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AP
Solutions / IT / AI Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The cost could be improved. It can sometimes be a bit confusing figuring out how we are actually being charged.

There should be something done about inter-productivity between cloud platforms. It is so difficult to connect two different platforms with these tools as there is not any inter-productivity or inter-operability.

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it_user1281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Gmail interface should be advertisement free. Web interface should also be enhanced to be more user-friendly. View full review »
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