Google Drive Enterprise vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

"The product helps us to collaborate with team members. You can control the share and access feature. It is also user-friendly. The solution's security features are decent and reliable. Its APIs are good."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing with partners."

"The stability of Google Drive Enterprise is good."

"The performance of this solution is fast because it is hosted by Google."

"Low maintenance solution."

"Offers good storage."

"The possibility of working together in real-time on the same document is the most useful feature for me."

"One of the most strong features is the ability to collaborate by sharing files with others, allowing concurrent work. The most valuable features of our team's collaboration include concurrent editing and quickly creating reports. This allows for simultaneous editing, moderation, and finalization of our reports."

"This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page."

"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."

"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."

"It's a very robust product."

"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."

"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."

"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

"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."

"I want better support, and I expect quicker support for any issues."

"The product’s document management and automation features are very limited."

"The tool's AI has certain shortcomings, where improvements are required."

"Google can add a personalized dashboard that would give insights into the files that I have."

"Lacks scalability and security."

"The tool must provide more storage capacity."

"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."

"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."

"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."

"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."

"Workflows could be simplified."

"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."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."

"That would be ideal if it were as cheap as possible."

"The tool is a bit expensive."

"Storage is the only product offered and that makes it expensive to use."

"The price of Google Drive Enterprise is affordable and is one of its best features. I am on a monthly subscription."

"Google Drive Enterprise is free for everyone to use."

"I have evaluated Amazon AWS and IBM solutions. Amazon AWS has competitive prices for cloud storage and backups."

"The solution has a subscription-based license."

"In the free subscription, Google Drive Enterprise provides limited integrations. You get basic integration features, but for more extensive API usage, a paid subscription is required. Even with the paid subscription, there are limits on free API usage, such as a certain number of calls per day or month."

"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."

"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."