Google Workspace vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Google is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Microsoft is ranked #10. Google holds a 7.3% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 8.3% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Google Workspace and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server compete in the productivity and collaboration software category. Google Workspace appears to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and scalability, while Microsoft SharePoint Server excels in document management and customization.

Features: Google Workspace includes tools like Gmail, Drive, and Meet, facilitating seamless real-time collaboration. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers robust document management, version control, and customization options, including templates for generating sites and workflows.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace could enhance email integration with Outlook and improve its chat and video functionalities to rival competitors like Zoom. Microsoft SharePoint Server needs improvement in user interface and workflow processing, and additional CRM-like functions would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace offers an easy cloud-based deployment and is noted for reliability, though direct support is limited. Microsoft SharePoint Server’s deployment, especially on-premises, is complex but accompanied by extensive documentation beneficial for enterprises needing custom solutions.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace is cost-effective, with different pricing tiers and low hardware costs, providing a good ROI by enhancing productivity. Microsoft SharePoint Server potentially incurs higher costs due to additional licensing but justifies these with deep Microsoft product integration and enterprise-level customizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

101

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (2nd), Cloud Storage (6th)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Workspace is 7.3%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 8.3%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Mehdi Hasankhan

Head of Development and Implementation at Arak Petrochemical Company

Easy to use but offers poor integrations with Oracle and has inflexible security configuration

I can't configure the current security I want. There are a lot of bots in it. 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.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool helps me keep a backup of old emails. Like everyone else, I love the Google search engine for searching emails on webmail. The Google Workspace connector for Outlook works well, so I have no issues with that."

"It's stable. There isn't really any downtime."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive."

"The solution is very stable."

"I find smart sheets in Google Sheets to be useful."

"The product can scale easily."

"I like the capabilities for collaboration on any platform. For example, I might be on an iPad whereas the person next to me is on a laptop and the person next to them is on their phone. We can all collaborate together and update documentation in real-time."

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

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

"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."

"The level of stability is good."

"Ability to collaborate with others in one location."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."

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Cons

"Expensive with a complicated licensing structure."

"Integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved. The new integration was implemented last September, and we are facing some issues with OAuth 2.0 authentication."

"Google could integrate Gemini AI with Google Workspace to enhance user experience."

"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 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 simplified and made more user friendly."

"The feature set of Google Sheets is limited."

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

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"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."

"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."

"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."

"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 solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."

"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."

"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."

"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Google Workspace's pricing five to six out of ten. We do not pay any extra costs."

"It's low in cost as compared to Office 365. There is an annual licensing cost."

"You pay for Google Workspace based on your usage and the apps you use, but in my case, it's free, but if I used it a lot more, I'd probably need to pay. 15GB is enough for me, but I see myself upgrading and paying the additional charges for more storage regularly."

"Pricing is something concerning. We find the solution very expensive."

"2,500 Rupees per month per user."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

"G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 offer products with similar functionality at several different price points. Zoho offer a more extensive range of products and attempts to provide all the applications required to run most small and medium-sized businesses."

"Approximately $6 per user, per month."

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"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

I'm not satisfied with the cost because I feel these services should be free as they use our data.

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

As far as Google Workspace is concerned, it is working fine for us. Our needs are fulfilled, so that's fine. However, integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved. The new integration was i...

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Also Known As

G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server

Overview

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

Google

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.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

Del Monte Foods, Unicredit Leasing, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Nokia Czech Republic, Perkins Eastman, JLL, ICA, óxito Software, Dorset Software, PKP Cargo, Arcapita Bank B.S.C., AVE CZ, Chesapeake Energy

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