G suite has really simplified on-boarding people, both because it works well with everything and because it's easier to start using than desktop software like open-office or libre office. Generally speaking, even folks who haven't used it before find it easier to use than other office suites. For people who are really accomplished in something like ms-office, there might be some annoyances but we have not had issues w/doing projects that had say excel and sheets users together. Google has done a really good job of looking at the entire set of features needed to make various docs, and focusing on the most important things be easy and work well, delivered in a cloud-centric way.

So much capabilities for the price.

G suite is great about Pareto optimization- it does most things really well.

G Suite offers an affordable, accessible array of cloud-based business productivity and collaboration tools.

G Suite offers an array of cloud-based productivity tools. Mail has a host of features to move the most important things to the forefront. Calendar is one of, if not THE, best calendar apps available. Drive is a hugely useful cloud storage app. Docs, Sheets, and Forms are all great cloud-based collaboration tools. Google Keep is quickly becoming my go-to collaborative note taking space.

There are no macOS desktop apps available for Google products! This would be helpful for cutting back on browser-based distractions.

This is a good cloud based document storage alternative to dropbox for nonprofits. At the price of free for nonprofits, it's worth using it and compatible with all of the google bells and whistles.

I love that this is a great alternative to dropbox for nonprofits. Since it offers cloud storage for file management, it enables our organization to keep documents in a central place for sharing with our board of directors, staff, and contracted development employees. I also like that I can create custom email addresses for my board members with the @myorganization'sname in it. It offers way more features than we use for our organization (calendar, hangouts, etc.) This is a good cloud based solution, and it is free for nonprofits!

As an admin, it can be extremely hard to learn how to use it. It isn't always intuitive and can be frustrating to figure out how to set up some of the user management features.

I've always used Gmail as my primary choice of email provider, and when I found out that I could use gmail with all of my clients and my own business to manage webmail for any domain it changed everything! I've used it for organizations with as little as 2 members to 5 to 10 to 20 and even 50.

The setup is a cakewalk, the features are undeniably overwhelming, and the price is unbeatable. Microsoft can try to compete all they want but there is no competition. The ability to directly integrate with other business apps, CMS tools etc makes it the one and only solution. Access control and Google Drive features allow this simple easy to setup solution cover all of the bases on a budget and more! You can even use MDM features and manage all of your business devices, apps, security, enforcement, etc.

Google Drive is great, but it is difficult to use and can be a little clunky at times. This is really the only complaint I have at all with the service, and its not even a necessary component as most people don't even use it.

I have used G Suite for more than one business venture. It works great and really is a good value for the money (in most cases). I could understand that if you have a large organization the costs could add up quite a bit. I use G Suite along with all other Google apps and it works great. Very user friendly for those that aren't very tech savvy. As the Admin, it's very simple to manage your users, manage permissions, etc. I just ask myself "how hard would it be to have these same features but custom build them myself?" and the answer is "it would be very very difficult." It would also probably cost me more.

Sometimes you run into issues with G Suite. Not often, but sometimes you'll run into problems when you are logged into multiple accounts under 1 browser. Take me for example, I will often have at least a few Gmail accounts open (personal, business, support, junk email, etc.). If you ever get up to about 5 accounts logged in at once, you start to run into problems and you'll get logged out of all of them at once. Also, the support is pretty good, but only once you're able to get ahold of them. It takes many steps to begin talking to a human. One time I had to do a big migration of data from one to another, and the process wasn't very simple. I had to get in conact with support and they were helpful but only once I jumped through every hoop to get there.

Using Google's App suite, I expected there to be a notable difference in usability between it and Microsoft Office. But I was wrong. I noticed zero difference. In fact, I use Google Suite more than Microsoft Office because of how easy it is to keep documents backed up. That alone gives me peace of mind that I won't lose any data should my local machine crash.

Normally, I use apps like Microsoft Office because of the known familiarity and ease of use. When a peer told me about Google Suite, I took a look at it, and I noticed that there are apps that are identical to Microsoft office, like word docs, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, etc. of course, Google names them differently. When I began working on my English paper, I was initially skeptical of how Google Docs would be since I was so used to using Microsoft Word. But when I used Google Docs, I was beyond impressed. It's literally identical to Microsoft Word, except, it's free, and it's on the cloud, and every small edit I make Google autosaves it in seconds.

Admittedly, Google's app suite can be a tad slow when in use. I noticed that when I use Google Docs or Sheets. But that's to be expected for something that is literally on the cloud. Plus, on my Mac, using Google apps online can increase my CPU usage, and make my fans spin faster than they should be. But really, those are the only complaints I can really give to Google Suite. But honestly, the pros simply outweigh the cons.

My overall experience with G Suite is excellent. Meeting up with a new group for school, work, or recreation, and being able to seamlessly throw together a collab-document is awesome. The G Suite is always my go to with group work and collaboration.

What I like most about this software is how easy it is to use. Everything is intuitive and there is no learning curve, which, in a world where immediate gratification is king, is very important. In addition, auto-save feature in google drive is certainly a stress-reducer, no concerns about lost data as long as your internet connection is stable. Also, I like that google drive is free up to a certain GB storage level. Only if you are sharing big data do you need to actually pay for the service. I only use the word processors and presentation software, and I am nowhere near my limit on my free account.

To be honest it's difficult to think of cons for the G suite, but when dealing with software like this there is always the issue of compatibility. It would be unfair to say this is a problem isolated to the g-suite, it is more the nature of data-sharing over different platforms and OS's.

G Suite is a business-oriented version of the popular Google productivity programs, such as gmail, docs, sheets, and others. Because the Google productivity apps are free and link with the nearly ubiquitous Google account, transitioning people over to G Suite should be a breeze.

Transitioning a business can be tedious depending on the size of the company and the current suite they may use. Two issues that might crop up are migrating existing accounts to G Suite and . The latter can be attributed to corporate inertia, change can be good especially in the form of G Suite.

G Suite is probably the best business software right now. With all the add-ons and apps coming along with it. Complicated business justa made simple by Google.

About this software, it's an all in one package. Got everything you need from a personal and business-related perspective. Everything is accessible and the ease and comfort of use is incomparable. The feature or add-ons is of great help to an individual user, specialli with the tasks, reminders and calendar. plus the chat options to keep in touch with clients, which is always a faster alternative for sending emails

About when the client sent me a MS Excel or Powerpoint document. When I need to edit such. It's somehow challenging in the beginning. So, it's confusing for beginners. but as time passed, I'm able to look for shorter cuts how to get things done.

G Suite allows us to manage our business communication centrally and also collaborate on documents and projects internally in real time. The best features include 1) Easy integration across the G Suite makes it easy to work on documents, send emails and collaborate (a huge thing for a company like ours). G Suite works with many existing file formats making it easy for us to quickly add documents and files to our drives and emails. 2) Gmail for business is king - The use of threaded emails in Gmail accounts is great (especially with the new Gmail interface), also being able to share files via Google drive and insert edited documents on the file from Google Drive.

Although we are impressed with G Suite as a whole, it is not without its flaws:

With Google being the giant that it is, I'm honestly not sure where to go if I do need support of any kind for G Suite. It's not like Google has a main switchboard that you can all in to and "press 1 for technical support." Perhaps they do and I don't know it. But thankfully, it's very very rare that I need support beyond what can be found online. I wouldn't hesitate to deploy G Suite with any of the companies I oversee.

When I came in to a new company, I inherited "Google Apps" as our platform. I had been accustomed to the Exchange Server world for email, Sharepoint for files, and was neck-deep in the Microsoft ecosystem in my past experience. When coming in to Google Apps (later rebranded as G Suite), I was a bit uneasy but the unfamiliarity was quickly overcome by the ease of use of Google's tools. One of the things I appreciate most about G Suite is that you never have to worry about the integrity of your data. You know your server's hard drive is never going to crash and bring you down for days at a time. You know you're not going to have to deal with lengthy outages because one upstream provider has gone down. Google is just reliable. It's rock solid, and it just works.

I think the #1 issue I don't like about G Suite is Gmail's "labels" paradigm. Yes, they offer IMAP, which allows you to mostly adhere to the "folders" model, but "labels" are not exactly the same and understanding the differences can be confusing at first. Also, I prefer to work through an email client rather than through web mail. There are a few programs out there that handle the "labels" implementation well, but many do not, so your choices for email clients become limited. Other than that, I really can't complain about the tools that G Suite offers, nor the price. It's affordable and reliable.

Overall G Suite is a necessity for new and established businesses alike. Administrating a G Suite account vs a Microsoft 365 account is like night and day, and my team prefers Google's ecosystem over anything else.

- Easily manage employee emails, cloud storage, calendars, and more

- It's not very easy to suspend terminated employee accounts and move data to another account

Honestly, it's been an incredible investment for our organization, and I really couldn't be happier. I feel like if I was paying, however, I would like the admin console to be a bit cleaner and easier to navigate - even cleaning up the confusing wording on the instructions would be an improvement.

It's free when you are in the education sector and you can't beat that. I can't begin to tell you how much my department has saved in data storage costs alone. Totally worth it to get just that, but the host of other tools in G Suite are also amazing!

It comes with a learning curve for sure. It can be a bit difficult to understand as an administrator, and although the customization options are AWESOME, they can be complex and require time to learn and understand what they do.

In our office, we use Gsuite to set up employees with a company email address. Google drive for data storage and file sharing. calendar application for keeping track of events, deadlines, and meetings. All of these items with a single login is extremely useful.

As a small business, we rely heavily on Gsuite. With Gsuite, we are able to establish an email address, data storage, and collaboration tools for a new employee all under one roof. The previous solution for our business had our emails separated from other tools, requiring multiple accounts for each employee. This consolidates it down to one. Can't stress how nice it is not to worry about emails again. Gsuite handles emails way better than Outlook.

Some might complain about the price per user, but considering what you get in return, it is a small cost for the amount of time it saves in the long run.

Extremely positive experience with G Suite. I use it all the time and the ease at which you can convert from Google format to Microsoft Office format is a huge plus, since many people still only use Office. It has overall saved me tons of time and I think really improved my students learning experience.

Where do I even begin? Well for starters, pretty much the most important things that G Suite can do are free. That is amazing for any student who is strapped for cash. The 2 most important features of G Suite for me are 1) As a scientist, the ability to take experiment notes in Google Docs or make a spreadsheet and share it with my Mentor so that he can keep track of my experiments progress without having to even be in the country. This is good because he travels a lot. And 2) There is an amazing feature on Google Slides where you can give a link to your presentation to anyone in the audience and they can go to the link on their phones or laptops and type out questions that I can then see on my computer!!! This is an invaluable feature when teaching larger classes and students are scared to ask a question and sounding stupid.

The features in all of the Microsoft office-like programs in G Suite are not really close to comparable to the amount and quality of features in the actual Microsoft Office suite (yet). I assume this will get better with time but for example the variety of transitions and animations in Google Slides is much less than PowerPoint. Also, in Microsoft Excel you can basically code programs if you know what you are doing, and this is just not achievable yet with Google Sheets.

Everything you need to keep your team productive and connected in one service. This platform provides a rich and reliable data management and facilitates collaboration.

All the basic tools used by most employees are available and easy to use in G Suite. Google Drive, Corporate Gmail, Spreadsheets, Docs and Slides are all connected and Cloud Based, providing a very reliable platform for collaboration. The administration area gives very clear information about how the service is being used and even provides mobile device management

The service is very scalable and depending on the number of users it can become high monthly investment. After a year using G Suit the company might get dependent on the services as most of the daily basic tasks are done in the platform, nevertheless, this is cheaper and more reliable than using local licenses and services

I am able to collaborate easily with clients with shared documents in Google Drive. I am able to have virtual meetings with a team of people in different time zones with Google Hangouts. And I'm able to have both my personal and business emails open in only one window.

I love G Suite! It contains a host of applications that make doing business seamless and so much more efficient. I recommend it for every client because you are able to manage your email, cloud storage, calendar, shared documents, spreadsheets, their version of PowerPoint (Slides), and so much more from one place. The email is the same format as Google, which sends promotions and social media notifications to a different folder, thus leaving my inbox for the most important emails.

The customer service is not so straight and easy to get a hold of. It's not impossible, they just make you jump through a few hoops. But the times that I've had to reach out for a problem are so far and few in between that I don't worry about this much. The power at your finger tips with G-suite's various apps shadow this con.

GSuite is all of the Google tools behind a customized interface and domain. The familiarity enabled us to get up and running pretty easily. But we eventually moved away from it because of upgrade woes- they'd change features and settings with no notification, sometimes overnight. It also didn't play well with other services (even Google services) that we utilized.

1. It included GMail which was a comfortable mail client

1. Integration with other platforms, even their own applications was lacking.

Collaboration, either via chat, remote meetings, working on documents and sheets, reliable email, those all are issues that G Suite have solved for us

G Suite takes the Cloud Software-as-a-Service model to a completely new level, and it's so easy and intuitive to use that you wouldn't even realize the sheer size of value delivered behind this product. With G Suite work has become do much easier, your entire business is available to you 24/7 even when you are using spotty internet. Long gone the days of installing multiple softwares to get your job done. G Suite gives the tools and the reliability to rest assured that to can work from anywhere

Development moves so fast in G Suite, that sometimes you feel change is happening faster than you can catch-up

Overall we are saving such much time with all the collaboration options that we use it for all of our companies. On top of having the peace of mind that everything is secured and always running.

Yes, I love having all the required basic tools to run my business like emails, calendar, drive storage, docs and everything else. I could talk about all the obvious features everyone knows about G Suite but for me the value of G Suite for business goes beyond that. Considering that running a business in 2019 almost always guaranteed that you will need to have an online presence of some sort, being on G Suite simplify a lot of the processes and required tools access needed to run your business online. Let me explain.

Not that much, it's easy to setup , however, it can get a bit complicated for new users to setup advanced features. But again the support section is very detailed.

G Suite is great for performing basic office tasks. But if you’re looking to dive deeper you may want to spring for office 365. However the way it integrates with Gmail and with your website are very nice. If your business does it need to perform detailed spreadsheet modeling it should be fine.

G suite is versatile, easy to use and flexible. Google makes collaboration very easy, and obviously search is a strength of the platform given the publisher.

The software that is intended to compete with Microsoft: sheets, slides etc. are all a little light on features. Google sheets in particular cannot hold Microsoft Excel’s jock. As a basic spreadsheet platform it’s fine, but don’t expect to do any detailed number crunching or data modeling.

G Suite has completely changed how I can share information with other members of my company. Things from quick one sheets with details for upcoming events, yearly calendars that evolve and you can see it happen in real time, to intricate detailed financial statements. G Suite has saved me so much time when trying to locate the correct version of documents and ease of communicating that I cannot imagine going without it. It has literally become my lifeline!

G Suite is perfect for companies with a large amount of employees or employees that are not located all in one place. The ease of sharing documents is extremely helpful and so easy to use. I also love that I can save documents to any part of the G Suite and pick it up on other devices, not just the device I began the document on. So if I started a document on my laptop and it's my day off but someone needs information from that document but I left my laptop at the office, NO WORRIES! I can access it from any smartphone or tablet that I have downloaded the software on. Another key aspect that I love is that multiple people can edit the same document without having to pass around an attachment which leaves a lot more room for error. Bottom line is G Suite is simply a time saver, document genie and life saver at times.

The only thing I don't like about G Suite is having to download all the app on all my devices. That is literally it. That honestly isn't even a bad thing, it only has to be done once!

Overall, I highly recommend G Suite for any small business (or any sized business really). The only caution I would have is be sure to map out how G Suite use will impact users' Android systems and use of Google Apps on Android. I've encountered difficulties accessing some features on this platform after switching from a general user account to a paid G Suite account.

G Suite has been a tremendous help to my small business. It's integration of professional email, storage, and productivity tools has been a money and time saver, allowing me to quickly create an online presence. The rates for services are a great value, and include a wide array of versatile and useful applications for both technology products and publication/content management products.

The main issue I have with G Suite is more my lack of immediate skill in G Suite administration. This has not impacted many things negatively, but only produced some small annoyances. As a small business owner, I'm both user and administrator. Some settings on the administration side have proven difficult to figure out, even with Google's forums and instructions. This has slightly impacted the ease of use of Google products that I did not previously have any issues with, such as Google Maps. For example, using my professional account purchase through G Suite I've been unable to activate some features of Navigation on my Andriod phone, effectively turning off the ability to save addresses. Every time I've thought I addressed the issue, it reverts to the previous state. Not having customer support to contact has left me a bit frustrated with the professional version vs. the features I'm able to make use of as a private user. However, this is also a bit of a side-effect of me being my own administrator - user error or user inability is almost always the fault of the user - I can own that.

I have setup GSuite for my own company and for others. There are other options but GSuite is the best overall option for integration and working with all devices. The administration is fairly logical but not great. It shines in end user implementation due to familiarity and quality infrastructure. The infrastructure is the most reliable and without peer in my experience.

Integration of desktop and cloud with mature tools and pretty much without peer, reliability. Vast array of third party integration and add-ons. High quality mail eliminates SO MANY headaches of running own mail server.

Google support is not great at any level for any product. Frankly they come across as an arrogant company to me that doesn't value individual customers. I also started setting up GSuite for others and did not get credit from the GSuite referral program. The program itself shows the Google arrogance. Instead of what you'd expect from a referral program it is just vague, "trust us" assumptions with very little in the way of tracking your progress (this from the company that specializes in Big Data on an unequaled scale) that you have to go along with or not participate. Google rides the back of small business developers (primarily Adsense) but treats them with indifference and also kills off small business industry and while taking advantage of Open Source surreptitiously eliminates many of the great open source and "free" community based tools and services that the Internet was built on. (Google of course not the only Big company doing this. It is pretty much standard Silicon Valley) Normally I would just move on from any company like this, but Google is like the government of technology. They get their piece of everything and you have to take it. It is just too bad that they choose to be a dictatorship in their unique position, rather than egalitarian.

G Suite helps us stay organized by having every file, spreadsheet, asset, email, etc accessible from one platform on both desktop and mobile. It makes doing business on the go as easy as sitting in the office.

It makes storing, sharing, and viewing information very easy. Everything is stored and accessed in one place, from email to calendars to spreadsheets and other files. G Suite keeps our company organized and secure with Google Cloud and mobile accessible apps.

Customer service is not the best. Even getting in touch with a live human tends to feel like a robot, as they tend to give canned responses and simply restate what is found on the FAQ and support pages.

We use G Suite for Calendaring, Email, Documents mostly. We also have tried their Slack competitor and are closing following the work on Google Voice which would potentially allow us to replace our phone system. We really like the features we get for the price that we pay. We feel like it is a better value than what others are offering and it is tools that people already know how to use.

G Suite has been an excellent tool for our small business. We started with just 3 employees and have grown to over 50. G Suite gave us a simple and full featured system that included email, calendaring, word processing and spead sheets for much less than Microsoft's offering. Because Gmail is so universal, our employees all had experience with how stuff worked and so it has basically required zero training across all the employees and years we've used it. We appreciate that Google has continued to up the storage that is included and added new features over the years.

The G Suite is cheap because the support is done either through forums or searching through help articles. If you're not technical or don't have technical staff I imagine it would be hard to get it up and running. When things go wrong it can be super frustrating since there is no number you can call to get help.

I've used G Suite at several companies, and I also use it for my independent professional persona.

G Suite is easy to use, highly customizable, and integrates with everything I need it to. Really easy to right-size to your organization, whether you have 1000 employees or you're an independent consultant.

Obviously it runs best on Chrome, and Chrome runs soooo many background processes, it's taxing on your machine. Not necessarily a criticism of G Suite itself.

-Good Design

-The admin portal is extremely hard to use

This software has given us the abitility to move into the future with the way we operate and think.

G Suite has made managing our daily presence on the web fun! The G Suite Admin Console is one of the easiest to use administrative tools that I have ever used. All the resources are right there at your fingertips. Navigating around is easy and make any user feel like a pro almost instantly. Very simple controls all the way down to as granular as you want it to be.

If there was one thing that I would like to see is more visibility into the devices that we own and manage from within the console. For example, with Chromebooks, we own the Chromebook and purchase a License for use with the G Suite Console. With that said we still are not allowed to have the console report IP address information back to us. The console has the fields listed, but the information is not provided. Google says this is a privacy concern. I feel like that is not a valid concern. If someone is using a Chromebook we own and pay for, and have accepted our TOS agreement, we are entitled to monitor as needed. If a device goes missing, I cannot even go into the console and see if online, or if it is, what IP address it has. This information is critical to determining if it is still in our buildings, or if it is being used outside our organization. Apple has this feature in all their MDM solutions. Whenever an iPad get lost or stolen, at least we can track it and attempt to recover it, or know where to look for it. Google, get with the times on this, you are the only ones not doing it!

I’ve used it in two businesses now. Mostly because of economics. Also, portability is a plus.

I like the price and functionality. Integrates well with Microsoft documents. Able to share and edit documents within the group. Easy to “send” a document out side the group, without having to attach to email and risk a bounce because the file was too big.

I miss the way Excel does graphing. Overall good, I’ve found most of the workarounds. Some retraining of people accustomed to Open Office or MIcrosoft.

Overall, G Suite is a dream to use – so long as you have a reliable internet connection.

I love the collaborative aspects of G Suite. The ability to create shared folders and documents that are accessible from anywhere, the ability for multiple people to work in and comment on documents all at the same time. The ability to tag/call out colleagues in a document, and assign them sections to work on is amazing as well. There is even a built-in chat function to host a discussion within a document. Moreover, the accessibility of documents from anywhere with an internet connection is great. It's as easy to do from within a mobile app as it is on a desktop computer, making sharing items on the fly (or while out sick) a snap!

Some features are a little less intuitive than others, which sends a curveball. In some ways, Google have set the bar so high for themselves with the way some features work, that they almost set themselves up to disappoint when other features don't perform or are less intuitive.

Overall, G Suite is exactly what you need. For everything you need that it doesn't have, G Suite can likely integrate with it. I have tried Microsoft and Zoho, and G Suite easily comes out on top in terms of seamless interaction and overall functionality.

- G Suite brings in nearly everything you need to run an efficient company's documents. Sheets, Docs, Drawings, Storage, Email.

- The cost per user does feel a bit high when compared to other suite products (like Microsoft of Zoho).

I own over 200+ of the leading SaaS solutions currently on the market, I am a lean startup coach so like to follow the journeys of new fresh SaaS companies. Anyways, the more I gain access too, the more I realize, oh, this can be done with gsuite (I'm talking down and dirty, some serious duck tape). But completely doable.

It is a complete business toolbox. With a little bit of thought power, you can achieve almost anything. Moving into the age of automation, the strongest aspect of GSuite is it's flawless intregration options with just about anything online. But the cream of the crop is google sheets, and how you can custom built solutions tailored for your business. Don't believe me, you can build crm, a payment processing and invoicing app (completely automated), etc, etc, etc. There are no excuses, only lack of imagination.

It isn't pretty, it is raw, but functional. Being a gsuite account holder since a week after it launched, the biggest drama always comes via the piss poor support. Thank the gods that I rarely need support.

We used to host emails over our own server which was somewhat unreliable, and using other email services like godaddy made for extra steps to manage the accounts. We were also stuck using microsoft word and emailing documents as attachments. There was a lot of room for private data to leak and a lot less accountability. G suite has made this far more manageable for us.

G suite has been really convenient for us because we can handle team members' email accounts and things like docs all in one place. We don't have a high turnover rate at our business, but our work involves enough private data about our clients' businesses that it's really important for us to be able to quickly disable former employees' access to all of our core data related services (like docs and emails) and g suite securely keeps everything in one place and makes it really easy to disable old accounts and add new ones.

I love almost everything about G Suite except for the name! I feel like the name sounds like a silly attempt at being cool in a professional environment and I get annoyed whenever I have to say it. I also wish there were more discounts associated when you're paying for larger numbers of accounts, but the price is pretty decent anyways.

We have managed everything in the Google ecosystem for so long and with so much ease that it took away the worries and problems of mantaining a server and investing in infraestructure for a business with not so many employees, but with productivity software needs too. We can rest assured that Google will work 99,9999% of the time without putting in risk our data and connectivity.

The fact that it's all cloud based is what makes GSuite the perfect solution for businesses of all sizes. Starting with Gmail (everyone's used to this service) and having really competent alternatives to Microsoft Office products makes this a dream. It's also cheap enough and scalable on the pricing side. They've got all covered for sure.

It's hard to find a con on an almost perfect service, but sometimes they take a long time to update the iOS apps with their latest features, something that in Android doesn't happen, of course. Also, the Google Drive app for macOS needs some more work to be up to their standards.

G Suite is a must for the modern business. It's completely backward compatible and platform agnostic, meaning you can give your clients exactly what they need no matter how old their tech is.

G Suite is comprehensive. It includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more. They are constantly up-to-date and their web apps are practically bulletproof.

My biggest complaint about Docs and Sheets is how long they take to start up and load a document. Because there's no native desktop app, these startup times really add up when working with multiple documents. Besides that, I wish Docs had more formatting flexibility so I could create my own heading styles, paragraph styles, etc.

G Suite has allowed better real-time communication, company branded emails, and provided lots of integrated software tools that are easy to use, share, and adapt for various projects. The ability to share and edit documents among a large group and in real time has greatly reduced administrative time in managing group projects (e.g. minutes can be taken during a meeting with several people entering information and then instantly shared with all).

I began using G Suite many years ago as the Director of a small foundation. Since we were a 501c3 we got it for free!! Now that I'm in the private sector - I still appreciate knowing that Google supports non-profits in this way. Bonus points! Anyway - back to the product. G Suite allowed me to set up unique email addresses that used our website url ending (rather than gmail) for our staff, board members, or special projects. We were able to create surveys, forms, and other documents and then set the access and privacy as needed for each item. This was a huge game changer for me as an administrator. No more getting 12 various emails and attachments with feedback on a document. All of us can make notes, suggest changes, etc. in real time.

Occasionally I have run into limitations on my ability to do things that are easily accomplished with Microsoft desktop applications or other software providers - like formatting documents, creating word limits in surveys, etc. I've also been unable to access cloud based items on a couple of occasions due to G Suite errors. These were quickly resolved but still inconvenient in those moments.

It's the tapioca pudding of enterprise email and scheduling software. I'll buy it because it's on sale and I'll feed it to a friend if they're starving but nobody's walking away totally happy.

My team can access ALL the bare minimum requirements, including: Sending emails! Storing files! Having a calendar with the aesthetic of a 60s soviet bloc housing complex! And even more! Yes literally everything that I ask G Suite to do, so long as its within its core competencies, it manages to not mess up.

Except YouTube, which deleted our company page once. And then demonetized it when we replaced it (our commercials about wheelchair equipment were clearly very risque). And then of course there's the admin interface, which is just pants-on-head ridiculous. It takes so many clicks to get to the most minor of things, and then it won't be QUITE the minor thing that you wanted to click, and God forbid that minor thing was about modifying employee phone permissions for Android or something like that because then that thing is bricked.

Pleasant, and customer services reps very helpful. Couldn't imagine going to any other service for our office's productivity, organization ,and communication needs.

I mainly use G Suite for the email and calendar functions as well as the added security measures. It's nice to be able to easily assign email addresses to our employees and monitor their use and activity, leading to better productivity. Also had great interaction with the customer service folks at Google to help transfer our emails from one server to theirs. Smooth transaction, and so far very pleased.

The G Suite dashboard can be very overwhelming for someone who is not a computer engineer/programmer, and you can run into login snag-foo's that require some research to find and fix, especially if you operated on multiple devices. But once addressed and fixed, it was not an issue, just a minor annoyance.

I set it up in my business and is very easy to configure it all and have a good way to administrate all the resources and accounts, the domain set up was very easy and this never have downtime, it's always working as gmail, this is a really good product.

Easy to use, perfect design and Customer Service, perfect integration with all the Google Ecosystem.

Price (this software is a little bit expensive). The prices start from $6.00 per user and are not too expensive if you have some users but in our company (up to 50) it turns a little bit expensive.

Suite is awesome! when I wake up in the morning, I load up Google Sheets, Drive, Keep, and Gmail to start my work. I'll open up a hangouts tab to communicate with my friends/clients. I can review photos I took on my phone, load up youtube videos, etc. What I love is that it is cloud based. I can access it from multiple devices. Less Apps I need to download means more storage space for other things.

Whats not to love? Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Youtube, Hangouts, Keep, Drive. etc. I'm an Android phone user and a Chromebook user. Everything I need for work or play is in the Google Suite and easily accessible through multiple devices.

None. Best I've used. Comes with your google account.

1st step was solving e-mail headaches, and migration to business gmail was quick, easdy and painless. We then started using drive for files and calendar for events / reminders. After a while we switched to docs/sheets/slides and hangouts. Btw, Meet is a top product many forget they have :)

With G Suite you are getting a COMPLETE collaboration suite which can help your company begin (or finish) it's migration to cloud.

We needed more time than expected to completely adapt to docs/sheets after using Microsoft office for 20 years.

Our company uses G-Suite for all users. Simply great experience

Simply great product that hands down beats all other mail applications. Very customization and lots of control options. Great help and support available online. Lots of integrations with other google products. If you make corporate-wide decision to use G-Suite, then communication and information exchange is a breeze

A bit complicated for newer users, but nothing you would not be able to learn. Cloud drive needs some work and usability improvements.

Gsuite has a minimal cost for us, and it allows us to collaborate within our organization and with all of our customers as well.

Our organization wouldn't be the same without a tool like Gsuite. Most school districts use Gsuite because it is a free service. We can share and collaborate on just about any kind of document. 90% of our employees do most of their daily job within Gsuite. GSuite also connects to hundreds of 3rd party apps and it can be used as your centralized user database.

Enterprise security measures are not a top priority. Google is constantly improving this concern, but I believe Microsoft addresses these concerns better than Google.

We started using GSuite to move aways from managing our outdated Outlook email server. While email functionality is painless across PCs and Mobile devices, it's been Google Drive and Google Sheets that have solved many of the sharing problems we had.

This platform is extremely easy to setup and has tons of resources online to get help. The integrated nature of the products (spreadsheet, gmail and drive) along with countless interfaces to other software make this solution a really powerful one for companies with limited IT support.

The core apps of spreadsheet, presentation and word processing are not what you're used to if you are coming from MS Office. They are somewhat limited in terms of in-app functionality. The email editor in Gmail is also pretty basic with not a lot of formatting options for your emails.

all in all the G suite is very useful as it has filled the gap that was there for a good standard office software that helps in collaborative work in real-time. Some issues like the one mentioned in the cons plague it but it is still useable and that is what I appreciate about it. I don't think i will be able to use another software for online group work like the way G suite works.

It has a group of very good apps that are useful for college students especially when a group project or assignment is assigned. Google doc and slides have been very useful to collaborate and edit in real-time things from any corner of the world. features like Edit history have been useful as it helps identify the person responsible for the change and also if need be the change can be reverted with the version history feature.

The only thing I dislike about the google suite is its lack of cross software compatibility. what I mean by that is for example: when a google doc has been completed and written and when it needs to be opened by someone like the professor who most likely will open on MS Word the file will look different and the formatting gets messed up. I understand that G Docs and MS Word are competing softwares but if this software can improve upon this then it would be appreciated by the users.

I use G suite to manage the communication flow of the academic division of a small private college. My experience with it has been as positive as it has been diverse. I would strongly recommend it.

Having a unified user interface is tremendously helpful; once you've got Gmail down, you have an intuitive sense where to look for things elsewhere in the suite. Google Calendar is fantastic, as is storage on Google Drive and the various applications available there. I love the fact that the whole suite can be accessed from my office, my home computer or wherever I happen to be.

I love the add-on applications for programs like Google Sheets, but the permissions these third-party programmers request don't seem to have nearly enough legal firewalls built in. For example, to mail merge with an add-on in gmail requires turning over access to your contacts and other data that requires a lot of trust. The functionality of the suite is amazing, but especially with third-party app developers, I question at what cost. It also drives me MAD that there is no way to quickly create a group within google contacts without entering the people one-by-one.

Gsuite has really improved our team productivity by making things faster from the mobile phone, making the presentation easier and automating tasks with google sheets with app scripts. They have added incredible value to the our company process.

Gmail, Sheets, Presentation are the best collaborative and productive tool which we're using within our organization. We communicate with our customers from google mail, sheets to automate sales, product planning process and presentation to pitch to our partners, customers. Hangouts meet is wonderful app in Gsuite which enables to schedule meetings and remind with Google calendar. The overall suite is helpful and makes our team productive.

GSuite admin interface is vague and the mobile app is disabled by default for the organization. it's pretty hard to add employees on the go from the mobile app. Other than that we're always happy with the suite.

When you are in a hurry in a place without Microsoft Office, the whole G Suite is a life saver.

What I love the most is that everything you need as online software is in one place... The integration of Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheets, slides, forms, when you are in a hurry, Vault, domains, etc. It just gives you peace.

30GB in Gmail isn't enough anymore now that everything is digital, also there are some compatibility problems between Google office Suite and Microsoft office.

We require a solution that is designed to engage teams in a productive and efficient manner. G Suite's services work so well together it's nearly seamless.

The collaboration suite is by far the shining star if you're a standard small-medium business. Shared Drives is a life saver and makes collaboration feel like it should. If you're an enterprise with custom in house applications and/or relies on integrations to third party solutions, Google's APIs are well maintained and documented, not to mention the cloud console making maintenance of your service much easier. Thanks to the heat put on by MSFT, Google has been doing better about adding more value to their license tiers by opening previously Enterprise only features to Business and Standard accounts. They've also been overhauling their admin console making it easier to manage users and services in your domain.

Gmail has seen many improvements and new features added in recent yeras, but It's about time for a major overhaul to a solution that doesn't consume a substantial amount of memory just to have open in the background. The new Google Sites still suffers from missing granular permissions settings that were available with their legacy sites solution. This is usually not a deal breaker for most, but if you're one who relies heavily on segmentation by page permissions, you may find yourself struggling.

I am in love with this software and I will not go through anyone else with all the service they give us! Their customer service is really effective, too. Most of the employees with the company know what they're doing and can help you with any and all issues that incur within the apps.

It's easy to use and you can add, delete and edit any and all users that are within the company with a few simple clicks. Our company uses the G Suite business e-mails as terms of communicating faster. It's very reliable. My company also uses the calendar app which is really useful for meetings and set information since it can be shared with everyone within the company. Google Drive is really good for sending documents and important information because it stores it into the drive for the company. Anyone can access it which saves time and effort with the search bar. Google Docs and Google Sheets are amazing for organizing information for meetings and casting calls. It's a simple way to leave notes where anyone can go in and view and/or edit the documents. These documents are also automatically saved in the Google Drive. Hangouts is nice when you're not in the same town but need to have a company meeting. Everyone can be in the conference call and it's hassle free. They also give you a full month of a free trial with everything before you have to pay, which is nice for businesses starting out.

I wish that the free version had a little bit more in depth services such as just one company e-mail, instead of having to pay five dollars per user. It would be essential for online businesses.

Overall my experience with Gsuite has been such an adventure.

I enjoy that this software has so many integrations and is flexible.

I sometimes find that tools are all over the place. There isn't one 'Operating System' of sorts that puts them together. This is where something like Chrome OS comes in handy, however on my windows machine I rely on bookmarks, pinning and browser extensions to have my frequently used tools together.

This product is essential to the workplace, and there isn't an alternative that provides all the products, services, and features included in G Suite. It provided a cost savings by allowing us to cancel subscriptions to other services that are included in our G Suite subscription. Overall, it's a must have for any office.

G Suite encompasses our email, file storage, backups, spreadsheets, documents, forms, collaboration projects, and much more, all in one place with one login that I can access from anywhere with a computer, tablet, or from my phone. I can't imagine having multiple vendors to provide all the services we get with G Suite. The ability to work with multiple people, both inside and outside our organization, to update the same spreadsheet or document in real time is extremely beneficial. I can also save files to my Google Drive directly from my computer, without having to log in and upload them. If a person leaves the company, we retain all their data, should it be needed. Also, when an employee leaves, he or she can migrate a copy of all their files and emails to a personal account if they wish, but no longer have access to the company account and the company copy of all their data.

Customer service mostly consists of reading support docs, forums, and articles. You can't call a person for assistance if you don't know how to do something.

All businesses should move to G Suite unless they don't trust Google or have some compatibility reason to choose another cloud solution. The service is great and google support usually fixes problems quickly when there are any.

The google suite makes it extremely easy to collaborate within an organization. When using the product, I feel like the developers use the product as well and make the software something that they would like to use. All of the office suite competitors sync and save automatically, have great sharing and saving options, and have all of the functionality of paid alternatives.

There are rarely bugs but when there are, they are annoying. Most of all because I grow to trust the software to "just work" and when it doesn't, either I or my users end up with some data loss or a file not being moved when it was supposed to be. Data loss is mitigated by the ability to simply sync offline documents to the cloud however.

G suite helped with a multitude of problems in one go. From standardizing office tools, to connecting us via Google Meet. All in all, it's been an amazing experience and transition from the painfully slow alternatives we had before.

G Suite is quite simply, the unmatched, king of office tooling. Their online alternatives to Microsoft Office products not only work just as well, they also offer unmatched flexibility thanks to their online nature. Combine that with the huge array of collaborative tools offered such as private sharing via Google Drive and change tracking, and it's no secret why so many companies are switching to G Suite. Also, as a cherry on the top, Google Meet is by far the best conference platform I've ever used. It's extremely performant even on slow connections, requires 0 installation, what's not to like?

The achilles heel of G Suite is it's over-reliance on an always online internet connection. Which while it may not be a deal breaker depending on your use case, you should still consider this before committing to it.

We have integrated our own document collection app with G Suite. This allows us to store all of our PHI in a HIPAA compliant location.

-The ability to store our information in a HIPAA compliant cloud. -The Google Sites feature which we have created and host our handbooks on.

-The poor selection of add-ons for different business features such as collecting documents. Although this isn't G Suite performing poorly, I think they could find some better add-ons to connect with.

In our business we cover a very large area (over 800 miles) so communication via email is key. My Gmail hasn't let me down yet. As you can imagine, in an area this large, there is a lot of travel involved so Maps comes in handy when estimating travel costs or planning a business trip.

This product is easy to use, looks great and gives me access to a host of information I need on a regular basis from just about anywhere. I love the fact that when I hit a roadblock, G Suites has a solution, or can link me to another provider with the solution I need. It's also nice to sign in once and have access to a host of other programs that are a part of the G Suites family or another provider. Saves me a lot of time and frustration!

Can't complain as I haven't had any issues in the past 5 years. This product came highly recommended by a friend and business colleague and has been well worth the money.

The ability to have access to files from anywhere in our drive and edit together at the same time is amazing because my team all works remotely. We can be in a document making changes and working on it together.

My personal email is gmail and that is the same for most of my team. So, when we were looking for a place to host our email services I was so excited to see that gmail had a professional option. Most email management don't have all these features that integrate so seamlessly. I can even schedule zoom meetings through my calendar invites!

I don't love the filing system with the labels and I wish there was some introductory training that I could have taken to learn all the features that now I use but I didn't even know about when we first started.

Business problems we are solving with G Suite are redundancy - completing the same work multiple times or in varying ways, communication - everyone on the team is in the know and able to access and utilize resources as well as discuss them, practicality - the team does not have to be all in one place nor does each team member need to be tracked down in order to discuss or share or have access to important docs or info.

In my business it is crucial to minimize redundancy as much as possible and part of that is being able to share completed work and work in progress with the entire team. G Suite makes that possible and provides many resources for doing said work. Our team is working on streamlining our processes and documentation for the purpose of being more efficient and adhering better to the high CARF accreditation standards. G Suite is crucial in this. This is particularly useful as we have two locations separated by hundreds of miles.

I sometimes find Google Docs and Google Drive confusing. I'm not sure how to properly use either of them, though they do get used by our team. I don't think this is a flaw in the product but rather a lack of knowledge on my part. I suppose more tutorials on these resources would be helpful for someone like me.

The times that I have contact customer service resulted in immediate responses. I also like the features that allow me to customize my emails with signatures and images. The G Suite also reminds me when I forget to attach documents that I intended to send, which has saved much time and effort on my part.

The G Suite allowed me to be able to reach more customers with my communications. Since many of my business connections use gmail, it was very convenient to contact them as well as save their contact information. I also like the fact that G Suite allowed me to integrate my website email into gmail, which saves a great deal of time because I can access gmail and be confident that all of my business email is accessible in one place.

I did not really experience any negative situations with G Suite.

It provides the essentials for running an entire business. I set up all companies on g-suite to get started with web hosting, and business communications.

Ease of setup, walk-through. sso of all google products like YT, domains, analytics, etc, etc. admin panel interface is great.

Needs actual LDAP integration. buyout of Jumpcloud to build SSO onto physical devices other than Andriod based mobile. Groups management is really bad. They should not be integrated with other products for collaboration, or pull the distribution lists out of it. ediscovery has a hard time getting in sync with the data so there are a lof of errors when starting the trial.

Regardless of some relatively minor setbacks, G Suite has made it easier for us to operate all aspects of our digital marketing agency. I recommend it to any business professional.

I've always appreciated the next-gen instant-sync capabilities of Google's whole suite of apps, especially Drive and Gmail, and G Suite brings all that convenience to a business level. Not only do we get a Gmail attached to our own custom domain name (better for business purposes), but G Suite's unlimited Drive storage allows us to easily manage most of our marketing agency's operations all in one convenient place - we have our own space for business assets, and we can access vital documents wherever we go, whether it's for internal operations or client work. A real life-saver!

1. G Suite has so many different features, it can be confusing to navigate the way through what exactly is what, and some of the help docs aren't the most transparent about how to use certain features. With that being said, their great support team is at our service to clear the confusion around anything.

G Suite has helped us work together more productively as a company.

G Suite is an excellent cloud based alternative to on premise software. G Suite is very affordably priced(based on the number of your users) and includes superior collaboration and sharing tools for all communication functions needed by every office including G Mail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, and Google Hangouts. G Suite is cloud based software easily accesssed on any browser so it's available 24/7(and it's particularly convenient for employees who work remotely or who travel for business.) Collaboration and communication is the key benefit to G Suite by being able for employees to seemlessly work together on documents and projects in real time. Storage of documents and files is very easy and expandable using G Suite too. Installation was effortless and practically no training was needed to start using G Suite.

Security and Privacy may be a concern to some companies since G Suite is cloud based software located on Google's servers. So be aware that you are entirely leaving security of your data in the hands of Google.

I have been extremely dissatisfied and disappointed with G-Suite support and the professionalism of the staff. I was advised to use G-Suite by my web designer who spoke very highly of the offerings provided by it.

G Suite offers a wide variety of office and productivity-related solutions, all under one account and can have your domain as the end point URL.

I have been incredibly disappointed and disillusioned with G-Suite support and the polished methodology of the staff. I was encouraged to utilize G-Suite by my website specialist who talked in all respects profoundly of the contributions given by it. I was initially fulfilled and awed by G-Suite yet the most recent a half year have left me completely disappointed. I discovered it somewhat hard to import my telephone contacts to the Gmail application utilizing programmed match up. I just physically enter them, which for my situation, is really valuable as I'm ready to alter immaterial contacts and pertinent contacts.

G suite is definitely the best internet tool for everyone, especially for organizational purposes.

G Suite became an indispensable part of my life. I use it for years in my personal and business life. Gmail is my favourite email provider in the market. I really don't bother to use others because it meets all my needs. I can access my accounts from anywhere with just one click. I can interchange between accounts very easily. There are also some cool features of Gmail. For example, did you change your mind immediately after sending an email? You can get it back before it's too late. You can unsubscribe all of the mailing lists that you are obliged to sign up with just one click. Calendar is a life organizer. Seriously, I plan everything (meetings, holidays, parties) using Calendar and its reminders. It is really helpful if you have a busy life. I use Drive to store and organize my files. It is nice to store your files in the cloud so you don't have to worry about losing them or about storage limits.

There isn't much to tell as cons. The admin panel may be more user friendly but you figure it out eventually.

Using it daily, I love the 'Suite overall, and I've rarely come across something that I didn't like. Obviously there aren't many better options, and at this high of a level, it really comes down to what your company is doing. If lots of what you are sharing is internal-based, then this is perfect. If you spend more time sharing documents with other companies who do NOT use G-Suite, then either consider other options, or ensure you have the proper processes in place to ensure you don't create a headache of reduced productivity resulting from having to switch document formats all day long.

G-Suite in it's entirety is a great package. In our case, we have team members all across the world who use it, and the ease of sharing documents between those members is fantastic. From an administration level, it is easy to setup all the rules and access-privileges that you could ever want.

I have found that other solutions don't always play well with G-Suite, especially when it comes to Sheets and Docs, which requires you to either use limited functions by editing documents that are still in other formats (.doc for example), or importing into G-Suite and then having to export it back out. This isn't really G-Suite/Google's problem, however I'm sure there could be better integration there somehow.

Extremely positive! Grateful that G Suite was developed!

Long gone are the days when teachers had to make hundreds of copies, keeping filing cabinets full of documents, worry about a dog eating the homework, worry about a computer shutting down and not saving something, and struggle to collaborate with peers. G Suite is an educator's dream come true! Here's why I love it from a teacher's perspective:

My only con (and this isn't really a con, more of a concern) is that your creativity potential is limited by how much cloud storage you have. Everything you create or build uses space - so make sure you have enough. Different than the hard drive era of years ago also is the fact that you will have to continue to pay for this cloud space - you can't just buy a hard drive (one time fee) and store your items with G Suite. Hopefully, though, your district or school system purchases access to this for you as a part of your employment.

G Suite is a must for the modern business. It's completely backward compatible and platform agnostic, meaning you can give your clients exactly what they need no matter how old their tech is.

G Suite is comprehensive. It includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more. They are constantly up-to-date and their web apps are practically bulletproof.

My biggest complaint about Docs and Sheets is how long they take to start up and load a document. Because there's no native desktop app, these startup times really add up when working with multiple documents. Besides that, I wish Docs had more formatting flexibility so I could create my own heading styles, paragraph styles, etc.

G Suite is so easy to use and it's awesome because it allows you to sync with all Google products. The setup is so easy as it guides you through everything in detail step by step. You can sign into G Suite using Gmail and you can use it on almost any device. G Suite is just a like a Gmail account but it is with your own domain. G suite allows you to send emails super easily with your own domain and it allows your team to collaborate better. You can edit and work on Google Calendar, Google Docs, and many other online softwares and tools for free and in real time. Everything about Google products like G Suite is fast and most of the things are free to use. You can control your team's projects and communicate with them much better. The support is top notch as it has online chat, phone, and email for whatever is convenient for you (but I guess it comes with a price, the monthly price per user). G Suite is fast, easy to use, and very straight forward.

G Suite does have a few bugs like not being able to create an account on YouTube the first 30 days your G Suite account is created. Other than that, the pricing is a bit steep compared to how it was free a few years ago.

Ease of use between desktop web browser and android.

G Suite provides an excellent office productivity and collaboration platform for small offices to large organizations. End users will certainly enjoy all of the familiar Google apps they are accustomed to using in their personal lives and system admins will enjoy the advanced configuration and user settings. Three of the best features of G Suite are its seamless workflow, unlimited storage (Business & Enterprise editions only), and its marketplace of available apps/integrations. G Suite makes it easy to work between apps and keep your work saved. Multiple users can work the the same document and previous versions can be restored should something go wrong. Business and Enterprise subscriptions enjoy the benefit of unlimited storage which is a necessity in today's data hungry world, plus, you won't have to suffer from storage anxiety by trying to figure out what to back up locally and what to save in the cloud. Lastly, G Suite has a great marketplace of apps (free and paid) that provide excellent integration with other apps such as Smartsheets, Trello, and many many more making G Suite an even more powerful business tool.

Potential cons of G Suite when compared to other office productivity software such as Office 365 include lack of robust tools/features within apps, the existence of too many similar collaboration apps (meet, chat, hangouts) and the standard gmail viewing pane. While the basic office productivity apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides) probably offer more functionality than 95% of users will need, power users will find a sort of disappointment in the tool/property selections and workflow roadblocks. For example, if you want to insert a basic shape in your doc, drag and size directly in the doc is not possible. Instead you must draw out the shape on a drawing canvas before it can be inserted. Manipulating the properties of that shape afterward also is challenging. The second con of G Suite is the presence of many seemingly similar collaboration apps. There is Meet, Chat, and Hangouts. While they do have differences, they all seem to incorporate elements of video conferencing, screen sharing, document sharing, and quick chat. It would be much simpler for end users to just have one unified communications app. Lastly, a con of G Suite is that the mail app defaults to the standard view of listing emails without a preview. Luckily this can be easily fixed in the settings to incorporation a top or bottom preview pane. You can also use a Labs feature to get that "oh so Outlook" feel of a side preview pane.

Being able to start a small business with little overhead

First off, we're grandfathered into the Free tier, so we can have up to 50 accounts absolutely free. I know most people can't get it anymore, however, even the paid price is not much. When you consider all that you get, it's totally worth it! Gmail is obviously the best part, not having to deal with mail / Exchange servers or Microsoft Outlook. There's no need for any Office software either. You can easily replace it with all the different parts of G Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) and even get some cooler things like Forms (be able to solicit form-based responses directly into a Sheet). Managing users, aliases, groups, security controls, etc. is simple from the web interface OR the Android app (my favorite). I can't imaging trying to start a small business without it.

I may well have a unique complaint simply because of being grandfathered onto the Free tier. Sometimes we feel like the unwanted child because we're not a "paying" G Suite customer like all the new people who sign up, and we're not the free Personal users that Google likes to experiment on. So we end up in a limbo-land where we're the last to get updates, new features, etc. Again, all that could be eliminated if we upgraded to the Paid tier, but so far it hasn't been TOO much of an inconvenience to justify the extra cost.

GStuie, and Google in general, gives the answer to so many questions and provides so much for such a great price, it is ridiculous to conceive of using anything else.

There are so many things that GSuite can do that it would be impossible to list all of the pros. I'm going to just focus on email for this review to try to simplify things. The greatest thing about GSuite for your company email is that if you have a parent company, with multiple smaller companies underneath it, you don't have to pay to have email service for every single domain! Each domain can be set up as a subdomain of the parent company and then every user can receive email at [email protected] in the same mailbox! Additionally, you can create a "group" like "support" and it will then work for the main domain and each subdomain in the same group section! You can have them all go into a group messaging system where any of your users can respond, or you can use routing to send them to a ticketing system! Easy Peasy! That's just one part of one product, out of MANY, Amazing!

It almost always has the ability to perform the function that you need, the only problem is that sometimes finding that information can be a little difficult, specifically finding the correct wording to search for if you're not familiar with the lingo for a particular feature. Additionally, Google support can sometimes be a chore to contact, but once you do get a hold of them, I must say they are exceptional overall! Also, they don't allow API Keys for subdomains, so linking some services like email or maps with other programs to do automated stuff on your behalf for a specific subdomain can at times be challenging.

Main benefit was bringing a lot of offline data and applications online, allowing co-operative working.

When we got the internal note announcing that our company had signed up for Google Suite and we would be migrating to it and its tools, I was genuinely content. All controversy about Google aside, in my private life I had already been using Google's tools for ages because of it's ease of use, cleverness and wide scope in products. I definitely saw the benefit in using the same toolset (and some extra only available in Google Suite / Google For Business) in my professional life.

While Google Suite does a lot of things very well, other applications do few things, but they do it better.

Unless you're an Apple user (which, as a recovering Apple fan, puts a lot of roadblocks in the way of your computing experience), you have two choices for an integrated cloud suite - Google or Microsoft. While the latter caters to larger businesses, and has a comprehensive if dizzying collection of tools available, my experience on that platform was terrible from a small business owner's perspective. My brief experience with Office 365 convinced me to return to G-Suite (formerly Google Apps), which I recommend wholeheartedly.

As mentioned above, their support and documentation can be a bit opaque, but they are available on the phone if you really need to talk to someone. Microsoft's cloud initiative has been good because it has forced Google to be more responsive to customers. Otherwise, I have no complaints. One piece of advice: make sure to use the two-step authentication on all of your Google accounts (-Gsuite, Play, Wallet etc.) to avoid getting hacked. Google won't hesitate to blame you and charge you for anything on your account, even if you can prove that it wasn't your charge.

I have been using G Suite for Education for over 6 years, at two different school districts. Google has made huge strides for both in the classroom, for common user use, and overall IT Administration from the the backend. There are Pros and Cons in both G Suite and Office 365, if you are looking for a comparison. I personally feel they both have their own spaces where they excel. For what all you get with G Suite for Education, it's hard to pass up and not implement at some capacity.

A complete cloud-based solution, that's not dependant on thick-client software installs to operate. Easy collaboration for the G Suite users, a crossed all their G Suite Apps. For Education, it's free. So you are able to take full advantage of the entire G Suite Package at no additional cost to the district.

Since G Suite requires an internet connection to operate, you have that inherent dependency on a reliable internet feed, with adequate bandwidth.