Google Workspace vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4, while Microsoft is ranked #10. Google holds a 7.7% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Google Workspace and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server compete in the productivity and collaboration software category. Google Workspace appears to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and scalability, while Microsoft SharePoint Server excels in document management and customization.

Features: Google Workspace includes tools like Gmail, Drive, and Meet, facilitating seamless real-time collaboration. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers robust document management, version control, and customization options, including templates for generating sites and workflows.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace could enhance email integration with Outlook and improve its chat and video functionalities to rival competitors like Zoom. Microsoft SharePoint Server needs improvement in user interface and workflow processing, and additional CRM-like functions would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace offers an easy cloud-based deployment and is noted for reliability, though direct support is limited. Microsoft SharePoint Server’s deployment, especially on-premises, is complex but accompanied by extensive documentation beneficial for enterprises needing custom solutions.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace is cost-effective, with different pricing tiers and low hardware costs, providing a good ROI by enhancing productivity. Microsoft SharePoint Server potentially incurs higher costs due to additional licensing but justifies these with deep Microsoft product integration and enterprise-level customizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (2nd), Cloud Storage (6th)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Workspace is 7.7%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 7.9%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Mehdi Hasankhan

Head of Development and Implementation at Arak Petrochemical Company

Easy to use but offers poor integrations with Oracle and has inflexible security configuration

I can't configure the current security I want. There are a lot of bots in it. Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"G Suite is a powerful suite of tools for messaging and collaboration that has met the fundamental needs of my company, both increasing productivity and reducing costs."

"G Suite Enterprise is scalable."

"The solution is very intuitive."

"G Suite Enterprise provides many features, such as business increased search visibility, email address, and domain. It's a large whole ecosystem that is the major benefit. You can manage your whole team and have many tools. Over seven years, the solution has gone through some drastic upgrades and improvements which are done automatically, I do not have to manual upgrade."

"Overall, I rate Google Workspace a ten out of ten."

"The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive."

"The solution offers very good email. It's a very good email provider."

"It's easy to use."

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"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."

"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."

"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."

"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

"The collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

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Cons

"Not all tools are available in the one facility."

"The product could improve the number of participants allowed in a meeting and the strength of the meetings."

"Google Workspace needs to be more flexible, like Microsoft Excel."

"The UI could be simplified and made more user friendly."

"They could increase the number of third-party integrations on offer."

"The stability should be addressed."

"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."

"Google Mail's spam filter needs improvement. If I'm sending mail to another email user, sometimes it goes to the spam folder, and they won't know unless they check because they aren't seeing it in the primary inbox. They may miss important emails. At the same time, I'm receiving spam that shouldn't go to my inbox."

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"This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."

"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."

"The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included."

"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."

"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."

"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are several areas where a G Suite implementation can reduce costs: lower license fees than some competing products, reduced hardware, and IT support costs."

"It's about $8.30 up a user per month."

"2,500 Rupees per month per user."

"The pricing is a bit on the higher side than normal. For a basic Google account it costs $100, but Enterprise is %150."

"The pricing is very high, although I cannot tell if this is the result of the Indian vendors artificially inflating it."

"The price of Google Workspace is reasonable. I pay less than 100 a month."

"We normally purchase the license on a yearly basis."

"It's low in cost as compared to Office 365. There is an annual licensing cost."

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"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."

"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

The pricing for Google Workspace is moderate. I would rate it a five out of ten, indicating it is neither cheap nor expensive. The current cost is approximately seven to ten euros per user per mont...

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

I do not have any major suggestions for improvement. However, while the security functionalities are similar to those in competitors like Active Directory, they could be optimized for stronger secu...

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Also Known As

G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server

Overview

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

Google

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

Del Monte Foods, Unicredit Leasing, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Nokia Czech Republic, Perkins Eastman, JLL, ICA, óxito Software, Dorset Software, PKP Cargo, Arcapita Bank B.S.C., AVE CZ, Chesapeake Energy

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