When advertising the G Suite, Google very rightly claims that G-Suite is ‘all you need’ seamless package, accessible from your computer, phone or tablet. Such versatility across platforms, such ease of use, as GUI is pretty similar to popular Office suites. All this is a result of an painstaking survey procedures followed at Google from conceptualizing to developing to updating Product offerings.
Working alone across various platforms and devices is still a manageable affair in comparison to integrating online with people on different devices and OS platforms. Google’s Suite of services does this with a remarkable ease and accuracy.
Let’s go through the various Google online or cloud based services that we consider are worth considering when planning to setup a team for an online collaboration.
Gmail – The good old gmail needs no introduction. In history, after success and recognition of Google’s Search, Google’s (Free) Mail is the second most talked about offering. Google’s ultra-reliable servers guarantee 99.9% uptime, this is like offering Enterprise-Level service to Corporates and Startups alike.
Gmail is also perhaps the most critically acclaimed in terms of filtering Spam and Phishing mails and it also supports junk filters. All the aforementioned features of the free 15 GB cloud space per account is also available as part of G Suite. Most of you would also be aware of delegation option available under Gmail, thereby helping one user to make multiple accounts and send and receive mails with different credentials from a single mailbox.
With the G Suite you can take your beloved Gmail to work!
Google Calendar – I would simply miss out on most important events of my life had it not been for Google Calendar. This is one App that you need to convert your Smartphone into a Personal Digital Assistant.
The color-coding capability of Google Calendar is par excellence! You can have multiple holiday calendars overlap within the single App and keep yourself informed about important events. e.g. you stay in the US and your client is form the Middle-East, you can load up both calendars from either countries and stay informed about upcoming public holidays and your may wish your client on a certain day which may be auspicious to them.
And the other general calendar features like requesting a meeting and thereby blocking timings for a meeting are built-in quite well.
Google Docs – This is an ecosystem built within itself. It features full spectrum of Office Suite services like Word processor, Spreadsheets and Presentations. Access to Google Docs simply means that you can work from anywhere and Collaborate from anywhere too. The Real-Time co-editing has been pinnacle of cloud use for common people. One can brain-storm with people from across geographies in real time. Sharing and exporting any file is robust and safe.
The capability to work with popular file types like formats of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint hit the nail bang on and makes the whole world its potential user.
Google Hangouts – This sounds like a instant messaging platform and it archives much more than just being an IM. You can add upto 150 users in single chat window and go on discussing your ideas. And if typing text is getting you anywhere in the crowd, switch to Video conversation.
Google Hangouts has been extensively used by celebrities to connect with their fans and deliver interactive interviews. You can add upto 25 people in video chat. With the Hangout Dialer App you can call any landline or mobile phone across the world (Free to call US & Canada, while tariffs apply for rest of the world).
Google Drive – Drive is the cloud storage for your personal files and mails. You can upload files into your Gdrive and allow your team members to view or even edit them. Best part is that all this can be done from any device with an internet connection. The 15 GB free quota of storage space is shared between Gmail and Gdrive.
G Suite Packages – The G Suite has three levels of packages with different Apps and features being added at each level aka Basic, Business and Enterprise. While the Basic Package offers Professional office suite with 30 GB storage at just $5 per user per month, the Business Package offers enhances Office suite with advances capabilities at $ 10 per user per month. And the Enterprise package raises the bar further with Premium Office Suite and advanced capabilities at $ 25 per user per month.
Some additional points worth pondering about Google services Suite:
- Enterprise-level security that keeps the data safe
- Ease of setup and use as there is no strange GUI for each suite and the whole suite updates automatically, so no worry about updates, ever!
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