What is Google Drive?
Drive Enterprise empowers organizations to create, store, share, and collaborate in the cloud — without any of the risk or disruption associated with implementing new tools or technologies.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Google Drive?
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Drag and Drop User Interface
Team Collaboration
Real-Time Synchronization
Access Control and Rights Management
Mobility Support
Data Loss Prevention
Audit Trail
Enterprise Grade Security Controls
Large File Optimization
3rd-Party Integrations
Task Management and Workflow
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Google Drive Reviews
Vaishnavi G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Fantastic feature to store data on cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?
Google Drive is deeply integrated with other Google services like Gmail, Docs, and Photos for easy file access and collaboration. It offers 15GB of free storage, with paid plans for more space. File versions and easy restore help prevent data loss. Advanced search, OCR text recognition in images, and offline access via desktop/mobile apps help productivity. Overall, Google Drive excels in ecosystem integration, collaborative features, and AI-based technology like search. But services like Dropbox offer more robust syncing, while OneDrive integrates tightly with Microsoft Office.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Integration with Gmail and other Google services makes it easy to attach Drive files or save attachments to Drive. The tight integration enables seamless collaboration and access to files across Google products. The collaborative editing features allow multiple people to work on documents together in real-time. This makes group projects and collaboration very simple. Offline access and syncing capabilities allow you to view and edit files from your desktop or mobile device without an internet connection. Files sync seamlessly when you're back online.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While Google Drive offers some great features, there are a few pain points worth noting. The free 15GB of storage is relatively small compared to some competitors. Paid upgrades can get expensive for large amounts of storage. Google Drive's desktop syncing capabilities are not as robust or reliable as options like Dropbox, leading to syncing errors or conflicts in some cases. The web interface can also feel cluttered and busy at times. On the collaboration side, version history and tracking can get disorganized with many collaborators. Drive's integration with Google Docs files can cause formatting issues when exporting to Word.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you heavily utilize Google's suite of products like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, etc., then Google Drive is likely the best cloud storage option as it tightly integrates with these services for seamless workflow. The collaborative editing features enable easy real-time collaboration on files, making Drive great for teams. Take advantage of the advanced search features to easily find files by content, edits, format type, and more. Use the mobile apps to enable offline access to files for productivity on the go. To get the most value from Drive, do take the time to organize your files thoughtfully in folders and use star ratings
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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Enrica M.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
definitely the best software to share docs online
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?
Top UX and UI and a fantastic speed
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
security, integrations, easy to use
What do you dislike most about this product?
I'd like some more automation and maybe some functions to help find old files
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
it's the top in its category and can also grow
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Dipak p.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Most used file storage product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?
Easy to share any docs/files with anyone , multiple online document view option like google presentation , sheets , docs etc . very popular product in the world and comes with google account for 15 GB storage.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Online document view , 15 GB storage which is enough for your files storage , other person can also edit in the document which is also cool feature , you can limit the acccess like view only as well. GUI is easy to understand.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike if you get product like google drive.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
you will love it if you are looking for file storage and file sharing.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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