Microsoft OneDrive for Business and SharePointīoth suites come with substantial amounts of storage, aside from the cheapest G Suite version, Basic, which offers only 30GB per person. Storage and file sharing: Google Drive vs.

Neither of them is directly integrated with its respective office suite, though. Office 365 and G Suite each offer their own social-network-like place to interact with one another, Yammer in the case of Office 365 and Currents for G Suite. They’re useful and straightforward tools, although not quite as powerful as Office 365’s offerings. Microsoft’s Skype for Business videoconferencing platform also integrates with Office 365, but it’s being phased out in favor of Teams.įor its part, G Suite offers Hangouts Meet for videoconferencing and Hangouts Chat, a messaging and workflow integration platform that’s tied tightly to the rest of G Suite. Microsoft Teams is a group-chat platform that integrates closely with the rest of Office 365. And Teams has deep ties to the rest of the Office platform, offering effortless integration with Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and more. Microsoft Teams, for example, combines group chat, online meetings, web- and videoconferencing, customized workspaces, shared team file repositories and more in a way that’s more sophisticated and useful than anything Google has. When it comes to more complex, enterprise-wide collaboration features, Office 365 includes tools that beat anything G Suite offers. Working together on individual documents is only one part of the equation, though.

There’s a deeper learning curve for using collaboration in Office 365, and even when you learn how to do it, it’s not nearly as seamless as G Suite.

Everything is in front of you to invite people to collaborate, set their collaboration rights, and chat with them while you do the work together. Microsoft TeamsĪs I’ve noted multiple times in this article, when it comes to collaborating on documents, Gmail is far superior to Office 365 - it’s baked right into the interface, rather than feeling like an afterthought as it does in Office 365. Of 2 Collaboration: Google Hangouts Chat and Meet vs.

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