Google Workspace Reviews

I am working as a consultant in Google Workspace, providing solutions to Google Workspace customers. We offer deployment, management, and support for the product.

Google Workspace enhances collaboration by integrating Gmail, Chat, and Meet, making it easy to share documents and collaborate on projects.

The valuable feature of Google Workspace is its integrated environment where everything is pre-integrated, like chat and document sharing in Gmail. Gemini, the AI feature in Google Workspace, helps in creating documents, composing emails, and enhancing productivity.

The downloading options need improvement, particularly in converting and viewing data formats like PST and inbox formats easily. It should be improved for Gmail and mails to make data export and import seamless.

I have been using Google Workspace for nine years.

The stability of Google Workspace is rated at nine out of ten since there is no such major downtime with the service.

I rate the scalability of Google Workspace an eight out of ten. It is overall scalable.

Earlier, Google technical support was very good. Now, sometimes, it seems slow in certain cases. Currently, I would rate it a seven out of ten.

Neutral

I have not used other products much, but I find Microsoft's suite to be quite confusing compared to Google Workspace.

The initial setup for Google Workspace is straightforward and easy to manage, from provisioning a new domain to setting up DNS records.

When moving from another platform, the implementation requires a proper project plan, timeline, and management of resources.

Pricing is a major concern for customers. Google offers competitive pricing, but there is scope for more affordable options. Costs can be high unless planned for long-term use.

I recommend Google Workspace for its user-friendly interface, ease of collaboration, and the availability of data access from anywhere at any time.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I utilize Google Workspace for my active files. I personally prefer to store all my files on Google as it allows me to access them from any device, provided I have an internet connection. The benefit of using Google apps is that they function similarly across all platforms, so it doesn't matter which device I'm using, as it all works seamlessly.

The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is its ease of use and stability.

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.

I have been using Google Workspace for approximately 10 years.

I have only seen the solution go down twice in my usage, it is stable.

My university used Google Workspace for approximately 50,000 students.

The free version does not have support. However, if you are using the paid version the support is good and quick.

The setup is easy. However, the help files could improve.

I did the deployment of the solution myself.

The price of the solution can vary.

We have one person for the maintenance of the solution.

I rate Google Workspace an eight out of ten.

We use the solution for email, chats, meetings, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Meets.

Google Workspace has consolidated in one place our ability to send and receive emails, conduct meetings, and document our work.

The most valuable feature of the solution is email.

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.

I have been using the solution for five years.

I give the stability of the solution a ten out of ten.

I give the scalability of the solution a ten out of ten.

We previously used Microsoft Office and Outlook. We got weary of Microsoft Office, so we switched to Google Workspace which is a product that is a little easier to use, and we have more in-house control.

The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward.

The implementation was completed in-house.

We have seen a return on investment with the solution.

I give the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most affordable.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

We have nearly 330 people using the solution in our organization.

I absolutely recommend Google Workspace to others.

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.

Learning the tool is straightforward because we're only using email. We need to verify that we have enough licenses. If we don't, we buy an additional license. Then, we create a user request for the new user.

I find the price high for the full suite features. Compared to Exchange Online, the price might not be too high, but you cannot choose only one functionality. When you buy Google Workspace, you have to get everything, including file storage and communication tools, which I don't use.

A more granular offering would be better, allowing me to purchase just the mail server with full online backup at a more competitive price compared to other solutions.

I have been using the product for 14 years. 

We have grown from 10 to 19 users and haven't seen any issues. 

At the very beginning, during the setup, we did contact Google support.

I don't use the fax system from Google Workspace; I use Dropbox. For local apps, I stick with Microsoft products. I haven't found anything better. I also use Exchange Online for some of my work, which works fine.

I like that Google Workspace eliminates the need for on-premise servers with tape backups to keep emails forever. That's why I use and continue to support it, even if we're transitioning to other tools. For instance, we might move from Dropbox to SharePoint and OneDrive. However, OneDrive hasn't convinced me yet, so I continue using Dropbox. The same reason I use Dropbox is why I use Google Workspace: it's the closest thing to the old-fashioned server and tape backup solution.

The biggest return on investment we've seen from the tool is the ability to save money by finding any email anytime, which is particularly useful in legal cases. However, from an operational perspective, it's more expensive than Exchange Online for our use case.

We have purchased an annual subscription. 

If users forget their passwords, they need to reset or change them, which involves contacting IT support. However, this doesn't happen very often.

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. I don't have specific advice for IT professionals because the documentation is straightforward. I would advise considering the safety aspects before using any cloud solution, whether Google Workspace or something else. My feedback mainly applies to email usage, as I haven't used the file-sharing and communication tools enough.

I use Google Workspace for Gmail and as my workstation.

The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is the sheets and documents.

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.

I have been using Google Workspace for approximately five years.

I rate the stability of Google Workspace a ten out of ten.

The scalability of Google Workspace is good. I have not doubted the functionality of the solution. There are a lot of scalability features. There should be more resources to learn how to scale the solution.

We have three people using the solution in my company.

The support is good.

I rate the support of Google Workspace a ten out of ten.

Positive

I have used other Google solutions and they all work seamlessly with one another. It is a large benefit.

The price of Google Workspace is reasonable. I pay less than 100 a month.

I rate Google Workspace an eight out of ten.

If the solution had better documentation I would give it a ten out of ten.

G Suite Enterprise provides many features, such as business increased search visibility, email address, and domain. It's a large whole ecosystem that is the major benefit. You can manage your whole team and have many tools. Over seven years, the solution has gone through some drastic upgrades and improvements which are done automatically, I do not have to manual upgrade.

These types of solutions were code-heavy five years ago, but if you're to recreate it using the no-code environment, they're not only growing in that perspective they're also growing the AI. "How do I handle the data at the end of it?" HubSpot is not growing those services.

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.

I have used G Suite Enterprise within the past 12 months.

The solution is stable, we have never lost data. They don't let you delete stuff in some sense.

G Suite Enterprise support is very accessible. I can click on call back connect with someone, and they can solve my problem immediately. They are a utility company that answers the phone.

I have used HubSpot previously and they are not as dynamic as G Suite Enterprise.

If HubSpot wants to be a utility company they have to be able to answer the phone. I'm planning to move to Shopify, and it has an integration with Google Adwords, you can have fulfillment and everything in a separate ecology. I'm sure G Suite Enterprise has other things that plug into Shopify that's been built new. HubSpot is not a growing platform anymore, people have gone elsewhere, especially in e-retailing.

G Suite Enterprise requires effort to set it all up.

The price of G Suite Enterprise is reasonable compared to HotSpot. I'm not going to say G Suite Enterprise is affordable. It's valuable, you find value in paying your gas bill or your electricity bill, because of what it allows you to do.

I rate G Suite Enterprise a seven out of ten.

We have different use cases. We have a set of people, like the executives and recruiters, who use G Suite for documentation, email, and everything. There is a separate set of people, like the leadership team, who use it just for emails. We also use Google Meet for team meetings. All our laptops are getting backed up to Google Drive. Google has covered everything in one shot.

Being able to back up our data on Google Drive is a critical and valuable feature for our customers. It is just in sync. Imagine you change a file on the desktop, and it gets updated directly to your Google Drive. Our laptop is completely in sync with Google Drive. 

Google Meet, Google Sheets, and Google Docs are also amazing products. They're very versatile and easy to use as compared to Office 365. I am using Google Sheets and Google Docs, which first save the work on my memory or ROM, and then on my RAM. It gives me better productivity through Google Sheets and Google Docs.

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.

I have been using this solution for the past three years.

It is stable and reliable.

It is scalable. Scalability is the main feature of G Suite. We have somewhere close to 900 to 1,500 users who use it on a daily basis.

I haven't contacted them. I'm an ISM, and my IT team was responsible for handling the hiccups that happened 45 days ago. When the server was down, they were in touch with the technical team.

I didn't find it complex.

I deployed it on my own. It is maintained on its own in the cloud.

Being an ISM, I regularly audit the logs for the G Suite to find out if we have any kind of hiccups. Around 45 days back, our server went down for almost eight hours. I could figure out through the logs why it was down and what was happening. It is not much work when it comes to the maintenance of G Suite.

I had started doing research from my side about what is G Suite and what other options we have for an enterprise solution. Coming from an IT background, it took me a day or so to understand what G Suite is. It did not take me long.

From information security, that is, confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) as well as stability and reliability point of view, G Suite is the product to go for. 

I would rate G Suite Enterprise a nine out of ten.

We use Google Workspace primarily for email communication, Google Chat features, and various email groups. Employees utilize Gmail as the main product, and we manage emails and communication tools within Google Workspace.

Google Workspace has positively impacted our operational costs and productivity. It has made communication more efficient and reduced my workload significantly by being easy to configure and deploy. The tools provided, especially Google Vault, have been very valuable and efficient for data management and security.

The most beneficial feature is Gmail, which we use extensively. We also appreciate Google Vault for its efficiency and value. The search facility within Gmail is outstanding. The ability to manage employees' emails and email groups easily and the comprehensive help section for administrators are also very valuable.

It would be a lot nicer if the default Gmail came with features that we currently need add-ons for, such as tables, automatic BCC, resizing of the panel on the left-hand side, email highlighting, and configuring the display of time and date against each email. Although these add-ons work fine without issues, it would simplify the process if they were included by default.

I have been working with Google Workspace for about five years.

I would rate the stability a ten because we have not encountered any issues around the stability of the system in the entire time we have been using it.

I would also rate scalability a ten. We can easily add or remove users and adjust costs accordingly. Managing and controlling employees’ data is very fluid, and features such as Google Takeout allow for easy data export and backup when an employee leaves.

I have only had a few occasions to contact Google technical support, and I always received very quick responses. I would rate their support a ten as well.

Positive

Before using Google Workspace, I managed an in-house email exchange server called MDemon a long time ago, around fifteen years ago.

The initial setup was very straightforward, and I had everything ready within a day. It was an easy deployment process.

I handle the technical side regarding Google Workspace myself.

I would rate pricing a seven. While Google Workspace is cost-effective, Microsoft Exchange (part of Microsoft 365) might seem to offer better value due to the inclusion of widely-used Office applications like Excel and Word. However, the advantages of Google Workspace keep me satisfied with our choice.

I currently manage Microsoft Exchange for another company and have experience with Office 365, but I prefer the advantages of Google Workspace.

I would recommend Google Workspace to other organizations due to its ease of setup, excellent help section for administrators, and outstanding searching facility within Gmail. The platform is very user-friendly and significantly reduces the workload of managing emails and data.