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    Google Workspace Essentials

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle now offers Google Workspace Essentials (formerly G Suite Essentials), providing a solution for users of Outlook or Office whose teams want to use Google Meet and Google Apps without needing to involve a personal gmail account. Google Workspace Essentails includes Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs, as well as Google Meet, Google Drive, Forms, Sites, and Keep, in a bundle minus a gmail account. Basic Essentials supports (via Meet) meetings with up to 150 participants, and Google Drive with…

    $8

    per month per user

    The Free Website Guys

    N/AN/AThe Free Website Guys are a design service that builds websites for small businesses at no cost, that includes web hosting with entities like Bluehost, who act as affiliate partners for which they receive a commission. The end user pays for web hosting and receives the site design from The Free Website Guys at no additional cost.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    User Ratings
    Google Workspace EssentialsThe Free Website Guys
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Google Workspace EssentialsThe Free Website Guys
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    I will state this with 2 basic examples, When I require documentation to be edited by many editors then Google workspace is the way to go. It provides the best synching capabilities and also sharing capabilities. In case of meeting conduction through google meet a notes section would be awesome for personal notes and the capability to record the meetings would also help a ton to improve the productivity of all users
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    Pros
    Google
    • Google Docs & Google Slides are essential to our company as we are remote. Multiple people can work on the documents at one time.
    • Easy to share and store files in Google Drive.
    • Google Calendar is amazing, it integrates seamlessly with other Google products and it's our company's primary calendar tool.
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    Cons
    Google
    • I'd love to see a formal integration of an Airtable-like program that expands on something like Sheets to really make project management extremely efficient and robust.
    • I think it would be useful if public-facing pieces like Google Forms were more customizable to our org's brand.
    • Creating some sort of easy-to-manage/integrated CRM, donor management, and marketing software would really change the game.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Now that our department has used G Suite Essentials for close to 2 years, I can't imagine not using it. It has proven to be a very practical tool for sharing files / folders on a shared drive. It also makes it easy to modify and update content. It is user friendly and the interface is simple.
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Workspace is very easy to use. Even the advanced features are also rendered with an intuitive user interface. Opting into new features is easy, with a clear indication of whether they cost extra or free. Communications about new features as well as security threats are easy to understand and follow up on.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Workspace Essentials is more robust than Dropbox with the other features that are available. Google Workspace Essentials is very comparable to Microsoft 365, and we ultimately went with Google because at the time, it was free/priced better than MS, and now we have lots of legacy files already stored on Google servers, so a switch would be too time-consuming. We went with Google Workspace Essentials over OpenOffice because of the email features of using Google.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Not being able to record some meeting had an impact on context loss which hampers ROI
    • Seamless integration has increased ROI in some cases
    • Ability to not convert the office work files to MS office format properly has reduced ROI in some cases.
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