Google Drive Enterprise Room for Improvement

Eric Joly - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Integration Engineer at Zetes

It is always possible to offer better protection and improve the protection rate that the product offers its users. The security part of the product may not be very important for me since I only use it for my files. I want my files to be protected.

Security is the only area where there are certain shortcomings in the product where improvements are required.

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Paata Aroshidze - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Founder at Veziri LLC

In Google Drive Enterprise, Google Chrome's interface is currently cloud-based, but I feel it should have some desktop and mobile applications that don't depend so much on the cloud, which might make it faster.

The product lacks in the area of documentation. I use tools provided by Microsoft Office, and I feel Google needs to provide some documentation similar to what Microsoft provides to its users.

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Kanchi Kh - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Christ University

One thing about Google Drive is that it's not really compatible with Microsoft Drive. For example, if I have Microsoft OneDrive and want to share files in an Excel format, it shows up in my Google Sheets format on Google Drive. It can cause formatting issues between both drives, making it difficult to work with other companies like Microsoft.

One more problem I face is that online storage capacity is limited these days. So, if you want more capacity in your cloud, you need to pay for it.

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HaiPham - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at sea-solutión

It works for me quite well now. I do not have any suggestions for the future.

It would be ideal if they could offer more GBs for free. Offering 15GBs is too small.

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RM
Senior Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I've not reached a stage where I hit a snag and, "Oh, I wish this feature was there," or something like that. I've really not come across that so far.

I've not used the programming, the API version, to really comment on what could be simpler in that sense. The web version of it is pretty good.

The only thing that's really been annoying is the single file size limit. Apart from that, it's fine. 

I'd like different storage tiers. The storage tiers are a little tricky. Up to the mid-range, it is good, and then after that, it's a huge bump. I don't really recall off the top of my head what storage is now. However, when I went for a paid subscription, I felt there was a huge gap between the two of the subscriptions, in terms of the storage. I thought I would find something in between, which would've been slightly better. That was about a year ago. I'm not sure if that has changed. At that time, when I looked at it, there were two options and my requirement was absolutely in the middle.

There might be one for 10GB and one for 100GB, and I might have needed 50GB and that wasn't an option. 

When I upload something on photos and then there is something on Google Drive itself, the ability to see the photos that are uploaded as files on the drive, would be a good option to have. Accessing them on Google Drive itself could be much simpler.

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Neill-Walker - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Consultant at MSOLdigi

The web interface is a pain to access compared to the Windows application. However, the Windows application doesn't have any of the advanced features of the web interface, like tagging and SafeSearch. The Windows application should have the same features as the web application. The integration of Google Drive with other things could probably be better. The product’s document management and automation features are very limited. If you're a big organization, it will become a big mess very quickly.

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AhmedAbdelhay - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

To some extent, my usage is very limited. Perhaps my experience with it is limited to sharing and storing. There is nothing truly critical that I could share with you to have implemented or included. For the time being, Google Drive meets my needs.

Of course, having more storage capacity would improve the experience for anyone working on Google Drive. 

If they would implement something for people who have been working on Google Drive for so many years, to have an upgraded version or to be upgraded to that capacity or storage, that would be fantastic. That would be extremely beneficial.

If there is even a possibility, I haven't downloaded the desktop version to see if it has the same features as the web version. But, in general, if you can set permissions on specific folders and then give people access to them, you can keep track of who is doing what. Perhaps visibility and permissions for a functionality.

In the next release, I would like to have more functionality for other users to visit my Google Drive Account.

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Alexx Chan - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Director at NCSI HK Ltd.

Everyone wants more storage space, but for me, it's adequate.

I would like to see the price reduced in the next release.

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Roger Chan - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Slalom Consulting

The free tier of storage is limited, especially regarding the photos. Additionally, there is no editing option available via the mobile application. Hence the solution can be improved by consolidating viewing and editing features on mobile devices and expanding its free storage options.

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NR
Project Director Service delivery & Account Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Google Drive Enterprise could improve the integrations. We do not use the tool very much for our corporate desktops. Additionally, Google collects a lot of personal data from the customers which is not very good and this is one of the reasons we do not use it for our corporation.

In a future release, the solution should be able to integrate better with Microsoft solutions, such as Outlook, Teams, and Office.

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MS
Head of IT at Prerana Motors India

The feature for synchronization of data from multiple systems with the same single ID is not happening in Google Drive. This feature should be added. For example, if I have only one single mail ID and I'm using it in a different location to upload different data, this is the challenge. It is happening from one system or one server. The synchronization of data from the local system to Google Drive will not happen if the IDs are the same. If I'm using it for different systems in different locations, synchronization is not happening. The system hets logged out. This feature is very important for us and they need to add it.

One location I can synchronize but multiple locations with the same ID, will not work.

In a future release, they could make the solution more user-friendly.

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Andrew Milton - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

You cannot upload multiple files with the same name to Google Drive. I'm not sure how relevant it is for other users, but I have multiple files with the same name that I'm unable to upload to a single folder. 

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SH
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications

The price of additional storage could be reduced. I have an annual subscription and I'm only using 150GB because of the price. 

The environment, ecosystem, and elements bundled with the solution are not strong. 

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ChristopheParmentier - PeerSpot reviewer
Security specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's not easy to make sure you have enough space on Google Drive. I have to connect to the web application to check if I need more space. I would like it if you could right-click on Google Drive locally to see the available space. 

Google should also make it simpler to manage rights and access for different users. I want to share one folder with some people and another with other groups.  It's not easy to manage. You have to use Google's web interface to assign rights, but IBM Box lets you permissions directly on the Windows interface.

I would also like to synchronize my notes on my tablet with Google Drive. I don't know if it's possible to manage the synchronization between my personal account for my tablet on Google Drive. When I connect the solution to the cloud, the synchronization is costly, and the account size is small. I want to synchronize it with these types of solutions. You have a simple electronic device to write some notes on, and I want to synchronize with the cloud as a document, PDF, etc. 

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IK
Owner at OSA Special Needs Consulting

There are a few kinks to work out at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple and extremely useful.

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Adrian Mukisa - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Kabale University

It would be helpful if there was a synchronization option that would allow me to synchronize folders or emails with my online repository. That way, any new items added to the folder would automatically be uploaded to the solution, without me having to manually upload them.

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Swapnil Dassi - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Google Ckoud Engineer at Persistent

I have sometimes observed that when the data is very huge or there are so many rules, Google Sheets documents get stuck while uploading. It keeps on loading the document and gives an error. There should be an improvement in this aspect. It should be quick. Currently, we have to wait for a long time.

One of our customers was basically having this issue related to the transfer of ownership of a folder. A user had created the folder in Google Drive, and he had shared that folder with other users. Those users created subfolders in that shared folder or uploaded multiple documents and shared them with the whole team. When the person who has created the main folder left the organization, we had to help him to transfer the ownership of the Google Drive to someone else, but things got messy. It was hard to know who had shared what, and basically, the ownership was totally lost. The ownership should have been transferred properly in the exact structure for all folders and subfolders.

It should be easier to implement or deploy it on our system, rather than on the cloud. There should be some improvement so that it is easily deployed without files and folders getting messy or downloads not completing. Sometimes, the downloads don't complete, and the next day, it starts again. Sometimes, it gets corrupted or doesn't start from the beginning. So, it should be easy to deploy on a system.

There is a per-day upload or download limit. They should increase and improve that.

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Harikrishnan  Ramamoorthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Netlink Software Group America Inc

Security-wise, Google Drive Enterprise needs improvement. Compared to its competitor: Kiteworks, Google Drive Enterprise is less secure.

As for additional features that I'd like to see from Google Drive Enterprise in the future, in terms of security, it's only asking for OTP, but that's still fine. Storage-wise, storage could be increased especially if users have a large number of files to upload and users want to maintain all those files in the cloud rather than locally.

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DS
VP Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Regarding the applications available on Google Drive Enterprise, specifically products like Google Docs and related offerings, offer a compatibility level that is very good. Some features like transpose are still lacking in the solution for power users. While these products are quite good, transitioning between Microsoft and Google products can be problematic because not all features convert as smoothly as expected.

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SK
Principal Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I do see some synchronization issues at times where the documents that are uploaded more recently won't show up on other devices immediately. Or sometimes it may show some corruption. Then, you may want to re-sync it if the WiFi connection is temporarily unavailable in such situations. Otherwise, it does its job pretty well.

It may not scale up to an enterprise level.

I'd like some UI enhancements for an even better user experience. That's something that I would like to see.

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John Justin - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at IBM

Google Drive Enterprise can improve by suggesting to me I have duplicate files or some kind of duplicate feature. If it can give that kind of advice, it would be a great feature on a drive storage capability. There has to be some kind of machine learning to analyze individual data and provide recommendations.

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EO
Competitive Intelligence at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I've used PowerPoint and other Microsoft tools over the years and find it easier to use than Google. Google still has a learning curve you need to get over. I find I have to learn all the ways to do things I know quite easily in Microsoft.

The solution is relatively new and takes some time to get used to.

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MT
Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Splunk

Google Drive Enterprise can improve by having better compatibility with Microsoft files. Google Drive Enterprise sometimes blocks Japanese characters in documents.

I'm using Slack for internal communication and with other companies. Google Drive Enterprise has some integration with chat tools, but they can do more with the chat tools in the future. 

We sometimes lose track of the files. Slack can allow users to upload files, but uploading the files gets disconnected from Google Drive Enterprise. More integration is needed.

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AS
Process Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have not found any areas as of right now for improvement.

I would like to see larger storage capabilities. 

If they could continue to design it to make it easier and easier to use, that would be ideal. 

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Anays Micolod - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmeuse Python 3 at Université Grenoble Alpes

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. 

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DilshanRanasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at Affari Advisory and Consultancy Services

The storage limits could be higher.

I would like to see more cloud services being bundled into Google, such as mobile security.

Google should definitely build some modules into it so that when we add organizational data onto Google Cloud, we won't need to build separate proxies for security.

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MiroslavCzadek - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project / Program Manager at EPPM Services s.r.o.

If you have different accounts, you have to log out and log in to access the accounts. This could be improved by removing this requirement. The storage limit could also be increased. 

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Gourav Suri - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect Lead at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Whatever we need, it's already there. We aren't missing any features. 

It might be ideal if we could increase storage more easily, however, I don't have much visibility on that and have never had any issues. 

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

The price could be better. Google should rethink and realign its pricing strategy along with the storage prices because storage prices are going down for on-premise solutions. If they can reduce the cost or increase the storage capacity for that same tier, that would be a great advantage.

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DG
Head of Software Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In a more general way and for our purposes, I would say having a little bit more control and clarity over what is shared and how it is shared would be a useful improvement. There are obviously controls already in the product for sharing and restrictions, but they could be more robust and flexible as far as assigning restrictions.  

Also, some of the features within Sheets could be enhanced. It is meant to be a replacement to Excel, but it really is not there yet as a product with equal capabilities as there are still quite a few limitations to the functionality.  

Aside from those few things, there is really not too much that I think needs to be added to the product to improve it. It is quite a simple product and that is kind of the beauty of it. There is not too much more that you could add to it that would really help and might just complicate it instead. I think it is quite a mature, simple, good solution.  

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Mohd Azwan Azam - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Stellariz

The free storage amount should improve in Google Drive Enterprise. They only provide a small amount of storage.

In a future release, the UI could improve by making it more modern. Over the last

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WW
Research Assistant at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I had some issues with permissions at first. I have to ask for Drive permissions because I'm a new doctoral student. Sometimes I have to ask for permission because I can't access this kind of document, but recently they fixed that by adding me to their team. Now I can access any document that my department supervisors and staff share on Drive.

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SG
Solutions Architect at CMS

Google Drive Enterprise can improve by having better integration with other cloud and on-premise vendors, including migration.

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Mustafa Zayat - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The limit on the storage size could be expanded, and the desktop app could be improved, especially how it functions in the Windows environment.

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AP
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate

It should have more features similar to Office 365. To improvise more, they should compare their features with Office 365.

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Fatih Gedikli - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA Team Lead | Principal Apps DBA at Experteam

There could be some improvements in Google Drive, maybe in terms of user interface or additional features. Considering things like speech recognition or enhanced benefits in Google Cloud could be worth exploring for a better experience.

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Dana Alnahawi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security System Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

The conversion of Microsoft Office documents into Google documents could be improved.

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HP
Data analyst at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Personally, I can't say what I don't like about Google Drive Enterprise because I haven't discovered anything better.

The price could be lower.

When compared to Commvault or Veeam, I'm not sure what Google Drive has to offer in terms of backing up data on the cloud or in a data center for a large organization.

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OH
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is kind of expensive. 

We need a bit more storage space.

Sometimes when we download files, it takes a long time to sync. We'd like files to be moved as easily as if we were moving something on a local disk. We want more drag-and-drop functionality. 

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PatrickKuria - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Engineer at Sybyl

Google Drive could offer more free storage. 

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TJ
Webmaster at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

I don't really see anything that needs to improve. I am not a very heavy user so I haven't had any issues with it. I think it does okay for the basics, for storing and saving files. Perhaps the security of files can be better.

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VM
Regional Manager Fortinet at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I also use Word from Microsoft Office. Sometimes it's difficult to find some features that are available in Office and not available in Google Docs or are in a different place (if you are more used to Word). We sometimes lose time trying to find certain useability features. 

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it_user1293444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a legal firm with 1-10 employees

I don't know if it's already available, however, being able to set a period for which files can be available to people you share them with before the permissions disappear would be quite helpful.

A separate interface to give users a summary of how they've shared items on the drive would be useful. You can end up having a lot of stuff and the sheer amount can end up making users feel a little bit lost in terms of knowing who they've actually shared items with. 

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Amira Youssef - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator Coordinator at Cairo American College

It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added.

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it_user1420794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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.

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AM
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my job, we don't have any special challenges using Google Drive. We use it easily, however, we only use it personally and to share our documents. 

We have never used, for example, Google Workspace and other products. In the free version, managing the files and folders and data is a little difficult. It is a bit improved in the Workspace version, however, I have never tried it. That's one of our main challenges when it comes to using Google Drive - managing the files and access. For example, somebody could just access it to view it, or somebody could access for editing in both cases without permission, and that's our challenge right now.

Once you move off of the free version and go to the enterprise solution, it can get quite pricey.

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

Microsoft Teams has a lot more features than Google. Google Meet allows you to collaborate by drawing on a whiteboard while talking in the meeting, however it is primitive and not user friendly as it is a bit challenging to try to demonstrate using the whiteboard.

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

The Google Sheets should have more functionality. 

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

The solution could improve User Access Management by showing more detailed information of which users have access to folders or files. For example, you can see which users have access one by one, but there is not a dashboard that can show what user has access to a library document. 

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SL
Associate Engineer - Network & Security at Connex Information Technologies

The product lacks scalability and I feel it could be more secure.

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NP
Technology Consulting Department Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

They recently updated the email under 'interface' and I can't fit everything in one window. For example, I'm checking an email and half of it opens on the right side and you can't really read everything. The recent update is not really great for me because I'm used to having the space I need. I can't really minimize the chat box so I can read the emails wholly. There are so many things in the window, you can't really see it all and have to open a new window just to get access to the entire email.

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CL
Project Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

I would like to see better integration with Google Docs, the Google landscape in general, and other environments.

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YH
IT Systems and Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The service could be improved if it could do more customization, because the model inside is pre-defined and there is no customization. I'd also like to see an extension of the packages because the first two packages have minimal space. The next release should have more customization and more storage for the packages.

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Buyer's Guide
Google Drive Enterprise
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Google Drive Enterprise. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.