Google Chrome Enterprise Reviews

I have been using GCP for Kubernetes service, Cloud Run, and GCP VMs. They offer utilities for Colab, which is an open-source notebook that can be modified or set up with GCP.

I have worked with Google because the organization I was working with had their system set up on Google.

The OAuth service on Google Cloud enables integration of sign in with Google or sign up with Google option on websites. It requires adding the backend API and the front-end URL for setup. Once the authentication service is set up, it needs to be integrated into the front end and back end. The GCP front end usage was minimal as it only required entering the details.

It has been affordable. When I signed up to Google Cloud, I received between 100 to 300 dollars worth of credits to explore different services, which helped me learn Google Kubernetes service, Google Cloud Run, and GCP VMs. For the website I developed, I set up the back end on Cloud Run, which provides logs and details of backend operations. It has not been expensive to maintain that service.

I have found ways to improve the organization through implementing various services.

The OAuth service on Google Cloud allows integration of sign in with Google or sign up with Google option on websites by entering the backend API and the front-end URL. The authentication service setup is straightforward.

For the website I developed, I set up the back end on Cloud Run, which has been useful as they provide logs and details of backend operations. It has not been expensive to maintain the service.

I haven't used many of their services. The Google Cloud Platform UI can be confusing because service locations are not clear. With Azure, the entire directory of available services is provided and can be filtered easily. With GCP, this has been a challenge.

I have been using this solution for ten years.

It is generally stable.

I would need to scale it and it is scalable. I would just need to move the container I have set up on Cloud Run to a VM or cluster, which could be straightforward. They have made it simple to scale the backend.

There are features regarding QR code setup, compatibility, and security.

Positive

I have left that job, so I haven't been working with Microsoft Azure much. Recently, I have been working with GCP more frequently.

I have not used anything related to the initial setup.

I am acting as an independent user, so I would be the end consumer, not the business.

I have not worked with return on investment aspects.

I primarily browse. The interface is optimized in terms of the UI and user experience. That is why I use Google Chrome Enterprise.

I am using Google Chrome Enterprise for browsing.

There is one product for operating system called Google Chrome OS Flex.

Google Chrome Enterprise generally updates in the background with a button that appears for relaunching to update. The updates are frequent, occurring every two or three days. While tab history is saved, it can be inconvenient to close and reopen all tabs.

When an update occurs, a button appears on Google Chrome Enterprise indicating the need to relaunch. This requires closing all Chrome windows before updating.

Google Chrome Enterprise is simple to install. For Google Cloud services, installation is not necessary as services are created directly on the cloud.

It is currently running on public cloud. I don't have anything deployed on other clouds, only GCP.

I have rated this solution 6 out of 10.

My major use case for Google Chrome Enterprise is as a search browser.

Search browser is the only use case.

I have centralized management tools in Chrome, and we have centralized management.

It helps a lot to manage devices efficiently.

Security features such as sandboxing and automatic updates help with data protection, and it helps significantly.

The best aspects of Google Chrome Enterprise are its compatibility with everything, smooth management, and frequent security patching, which I find nice to use.

I find that it is easy to install and update.

In terms of areas for improvement, Google is improving; they are enhancing the updates and security, so they have a vision about the browser itself.

Regarding Google Chrome Enterprise improvements, they need to declare some security details; they are applying security but not publishing the details about the security applied.

When troubleshooting any issues, especially security issues, it is not easy to define the root cause.

I have been using Google Chrome Enterprise for about five or six years.

I find that it is stable and suits our needs.

I consider Google Chrome Enterprise to be both stable and scalable.

I have not used technical support from Google before.

I have not had any experience with support.

Negative

I have experience working with other browsers from other vendors such as Microsoft.

Comparing Google Chrome Enterprise with Microsoft, there are some big differences; however, if you are tech-aware, Microsoft Edge is built on a Chromium base already, so they are almost the same.

Ultimately, it depends on the environment, but I find that both are very similar.

In my case, I use both Microsoft and Google Chrome Enterprise to the same extent.

Regarding pricing, I am not aware of the prices.

I work with communication products and collaboration tools including SharePoint, Microsoft, and Google, and I use them all.

Regarding Google Cloud Platform, I am not familiar with Google Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy for ZTNA.

For cloud storage, I use Google Chrome Enterprise, but I do not use Google Drive.

I do not work with Google Chrome OS Flex or Chrome Remote Desktop for remote access.

I just work with Google Chrome Enterprise.

For cloud applications, it depends on the use case, but I do not require integrations.

For deployment, I have Google Chrome Enterprise on-premise.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Google Chrome Enterprise a 10.

There are different use cases for Google Chrome Enterprise. In my organization, we use it for Hangouts, chat, meetings, Google Workspace, meetings, Google Slides, and Google Docs for sharing documentation and other things.

The standout advantage of Google Chrome Enterprise is its ease of use; it is easy to share information within the Share Drive.

The centralized management feature in Google Chrome Enterprise is quite good. This centralized management feature helps because it is quite secure; it is password protected, so you cannot access it without proper authentication. It is easy to share information when you have password-protected documentation, as nobody can access it other than the person who knows the password.

The automatic updates feature in Google Chrome Enterprise is quite useful. When I am working on any documentation, it auto updates at the same time I am using the slides or other features, making it a really good feature.

The features that are lacking in Google Chrome Enterprise are related to Teams. If you use Teams for a meeting, the experience in Teams is much better than in Hangouts. People usually get confused about how to present and stop presenting in Hangouts, while in Teams it is quite easy and self-explanatory. One more feature in Teams is that you can share live presentations, but Google Chrome Enterprise does not have an option for presenting live presentations.

I have been using Google Chrome Enterprise for quite a long time, around nine to ten years.

I have not integrated Google Chrome Enterprise with any third-party solutions; I am just a user of these services as an end user.

Recently, when I was using Google Chrome Enterprise, I found it stable enough and did not see any issues. I think it is a good solution and it is stable.

Google Chrome Enterprise is scalable; you can add as many new users as you want within a particular organization without any issues in scalability.

If I were to rate support for Google Chrome Enterprise from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best, I would give it nine.

Positive

Google Chrome Enterprise is easy to install; it is SaaS based so there is no installation, just use and authenticate, and you are good to go.

I think the solution is affordable; I did some research on it, and I think it is good. Nowadays, more organizations are moving from Microsoft to Google because the pricing of Google Chrome Enterprise is much better than Microsoft. There are some features which are lacking in Google compared to Microsoft, but overall, within the price, you get a good offering in Google.

I am actually not sure if I have tried both options for Google Chrome Enterprise deployment; it is on-premise and on cloud.

I do not have an idea about the time savings from Google Chrome Enterprise because I am not the admin of any organization; I think the admin would have this idea. I am actually the end user from the organization.

I would say it is good enough. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Google Chrome Enterprise an eight.

I use Google Chrome Enterprise on a basic level because I don't deal with a large volume of data at the moment. For me, I'm using it for Google Drive, first of all, for my personal data storage, including photos and everything.

For my business as an entrepreneur, I use it for sharing the data within the team and externally. Then with Excel, I mean the spreadsheet where I have my contacts. Even though we have CRM, we use it for certain purposes to organize things, but not at an extreme level of huge volume of data.

For my work, I am using Google Chrome Enterprise for browsing and everything related to my day-to-day activities. For emails, sometimes I'm using web email; it is day-to-day, from morning till night for everything.

I use Microsoft Edge sometimes for specific tasks; for example, one of my bank web links works better in Microsoft Edge. It is not that I am not using Edge at all; it's very minimal. Whenever I am using the bank site, it is not properly working on Google Chrome Enterprise. Maybe specific components are missing in the update. Just because of that reason, I use Edge, but 90 to 95% of my tasks are on Google Chrome Enterprise only.

I use the automatic updates in Google Chrome Enterprise.

I am using Google Admin console for managing my devices. It is actually convenient. I am using that for managing multiple accounts and parent accounts. I think the functionalities I am using are suitable.

Google account storage could use some improvements. By default, 15 GB is available in the Google account. But with high-volume data and increasing quality of pictures, it feels insufficient.

Google Chrome Enterprise has been acceptable in terms of stability. This could be the reason we continue to choose it.

I can't use Google Chrome Enterprise for my bank site because it could be the bank site issue. Something is breaking on the logging page itself, so it could be a cookies issue. As long as it is working in Edge, I am content with that.

Google account storage could use some improvements. They should have a better compression mechanism or increase the free data space to the next level; at least make it 30 or 40 GB. According to the current trend, increasing the free version is better so that people can sustain for some time before making a purchase.

There could be more flexible options for pricing and license for Google Chrome Enterprise. Currently, there are maybe two, three, or four options, but there should be something lesser than one TB. Customers should be able to choose extra storage according to their needs, such as 50 GB on demand, rather than predefined sizes.

There aren't many complaints about the Google Admin console; maybe some improvements, especially with the parent control part. Perhaps I didn't explore that much; that could be a reason.

I didn't have much experience with technical support from Google as a normal Google Chrome Enterprise user or Google account holder. I had some issues with the corporate account, but the response was fast, and I didn't face many issues with the support.

It was a long time back, but I would rate my experience with support as an eight.

Positive

I prefer Google Chrome Enterprise over Microsoft because technically, I can't find a specific reason. First of all, I am used to it. That is why I prefer Google Chrome Enterprise. I cannot say I have a technical reason; it's more of a comfort. I have all my saved links and everything in Google Chrome Enterprise. If I am told that I cannot use Google Chrome Enterprise, then I would have to get used to a new one, maybe we will shift to it. But otherwise, it's more of a comfort.

I am not using the centralized management feature in Google Chrome Enterprise.

Google should offer something after the free quota, then one TB, and then two TB; they should have something 50 GB space available on demand. Instead of being forced into predefined sizes, customers should be able to choose. I don't want to spend for one TB; instead, I will spend for 50 GB data. Something that should be available.

I rate Google Chrome Enterprise a nine out of ten.

I use Google Chrome Enterprise consistently across various industries I consult. Regardless of the sector, I consistently rely on Google Chrome Enterprise for internet browsing.

I regularly use the incognito window feature in Google Chrome Enterprise. Although I am uncertain if other browsers offer this, I find it very useful. I often have four or five instances of Google Chrome Enterprise open with numerous tabs at the same time. Google Chrome Enterprise is my preferred browser over Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

There are many plugins available, which are often promoted through ads. However, there's a lack of clear information on whether they are free or if they will eventually require credit card information. This causes hesitation in installing them due to concerns about hidden costs and inadequate information. Furthermore, the integration of AI, specifically Google Gemini, can sometimes be misleading.

I have been using Google Chrome Enterprise for many years.

Google Chrome Enterprise is stable, and I haven't faced any stability problems. However, those using an i3 processor and opening hundreds of tabs might encounter instability. I have an i7 processor, and for me, it remains stable.

Both Google Chrome Enterprise and Firefox are scalable. I've heard that Firefox is slightly more efficient as it uses less memory.

I haven't used Google's technical support services. I usually find answers through online forums like Stack Overflow. However, there could be more detailed guidance on new installations like Google Authenticator, as the process is often vague and lacks fine-tuned information.

Neutral

The initial setup of Google Chrome Enterprise is straightforward. On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the easiest, Google Chrome Enterprise would be at the easier end.

Google Chrome Enterprise helps to keep IT support and maintenance costs low, especially for smaller teams.

I haven't paid for any services related to Google Chrome Enterprise.

I have used Thunderbird for self-hosting in startup environments. Other solutions I've considered include Zoho Mail and Rediffmail.

It's challenging to determine which app or plugin to use from review sites, as they often lack detailed information. In general, it is difficult to find specific guidance in app stores, which makes it hard for many users. Overall, I would rate Google Chrome Enterprise an eight out of ten.

I primarily use Google Chrome Enterprise to browse the Internet and access Oracle applications.

I have been working with Google Chrome Enterprise for quite some time and have not found any challenges with the browser itself. The interface of Google Chrome Enterprise is very friendly, and the options in the settings are easily understandable, so if I want to change something, I can quickly go into settings and do it all by myself without spending a lot of time to understand how it can be done. It is all very user-friendly. I find it very useful, as I consider it very user-friendly. I primarily use it to browse and access some of the applications that we build. For whatever I do in my day-to-day activities, I find it very useful.

If Google Chrome Enterprise could intelligently block ads or unwanted content, that would be helpful. Whenever I search for something, content with ads comes up first, and if the browser could somehow filter that out because that is not what I am looking for, the real content without ads would be helpful.

I have been using Google Chrome Enterprise for more than three years overall.

In terms of the browser itself, it is very stable. Sometimes I see challenges because of the underlying applications I am trying to access, so I would say the browser itself is very stable. It faces some challenges, but it is not because of the browser; it is because of the bundled applications.

Google Chrome Enterprise is scalable. I would rate its scalability at eight. It is very good for what I am using now.

I work with Firefox and still do, but I somehow prefer working with Google Chrome Enterprise. I prefer Google Chrome Enterprise, maybe because I find it easy to use, and I have been using it for a while. I did not find any cons with Firefox, but Google Chrome Enterprise is my preferred browser.

Google Chrome Enterprise is just on our system. We did not deploy it, so I am not very much aware of how difficult it is to deploy.

I am happy with Google Chrome Enterprise. I use Google Chrome Enterprise as my default browser, and I am happy with that. It does not require any maintenance from my side. Google Chrome Enterprise is installed on all our systems, and many people use it, but I am not very sure about how many people are using it because some people are familiar with and use other browsers like Firefox, but it is there with most of the users, and they will be using it for one purpose or another as well. I have not integrated Google Chrome Enterprise with any other products in my company. My overall rating for Google Chrome Enterprise is eight.

We manage our district email accounts with Google Chrome Enterprise. We also manage Google Drive and Chromebooks with it. We manage everything that kind of touches any of the aforementioned tools. We also have it hooked up to various other services, so we use it for single sign-on. The purpose is that really here sort of how to describe beyond that, I'd need a sort of more specific target in order if you wanted more details about it.

I love not having to deal with Exchange or other email servers. By large, Google emails are pretty easy to set up and keep running. With enterprise-level tools, you get a lot of useful troubleshooting and security stuff. There have been instances where we've had phishing and spear phishing attempts where once we found out about it, we could, like, literally, within a couple of minutes, remove that exact email from every single inbox of the users within a matter of minutes. As you can imagine, that's a wondrous tool to have because it's a lot more effective trying to tell a bunch of people not to open an email. Those are some of the main things I can think of, sort of, off the top of my head, besides, you know, you can use it for SSO. And sometimes, even user provisioning other stuff with a variety of services is also pretty handy.

Setting up anything resembling a shared inbox is still kind of a giant pain in the solution. Also, it's hard to sort of use Google Drive at a large scale for shared documents and procedures and stuff like that. Those are sort of the only real pain points I can sort of think of right now. By and large, we've got it pretty well plugged into a lot of other stuff that may just make any sort of pain points pretty manageable.

I have experience with Google Chrome Enterprise. We have been using Google Suite Enterprise Edition since late 2020.

By and large, things are pretty stable. If I remember, last week, it was exchanged when it got hampered. I heard it wasn't working globally for a while. We haven't had anything like that. So, there wasn't any effect of our actual network getting hampered or something. So, it seems to be pretty stable overall.

It has been working pretty well for us, but we're a pretty small institution overall. We've got 1800 students and 400 staff members. So, it works pretty well for our site. There are organizations that are larger than us that apparently use it just fine, and that makes it believable when I say that it scales up pretty well.

I have contacted Google's technical support. I rate the support an eight out of ten. They do tend to be useful since, at one point, they actually put me in contact specifically with one of their experts when I was having trouble integrating our setup with another service. For that particular incident, the expert discovered after running a couple of experiments that the documentation both on the Google side of the equation and on the other vendor side of the equation was actually slightly out of date and incorrect, which are about a couple of very small but critical things. So, overall they offer positive support.

Positive

We use Meraki for around 90 percent of our networking stuff. We use Vivi for screen projection. Also, we use Hapara for classroom management, and we use Securly for web filtering. With Meraki MDM, I only played around with it briefly when we were exploring different MDM solutions. It basically looked really nice, but based on the limited amount of time we spent playing with it, the problem was that the price tag was a little too rich for us.

I can't comment on the setup since the tool was a part of the institution before I joined.

I haven't compared their pricing with any other equivalent services recently. So all I can say is just for us since we just recently re-upped our three-year contract for Google Education Enterprise, whatever the name is for their highest level enterprise. With the education enterprise suite, I found the pricing to be pretty reasonable overall.

To those planning to use the tool, I would ask them to learn how to use dynamic groups really early on. That's a pretty feature they added a year or two ago, and we've slowly been taking advantage of it. So, that's removed some of the biggest sorts of annoying pain points we had to deal with in the past. For instance, we couldn't previously make groups that were automatically tied to org units. We can just create a dynamic group where the sole user properly looks to see if a person belongs to the organization. If they do, it adds them to a dynamic group. So, learning how to use dynamic groups early on would probably be very advantageous for a variety of reasons.

Overall, I've been pretty happy with it. I just haven't been able to, you know, use any sort of other equivalent rivals with which I can provide an accurate comparison from an overall perspective.

I would rate the overall tool at least an eight out of ten. I would even maybe rate it a nine, but an eight out of ten would be safer.

Speaking about use cases, it's the predominant browser in the market. Also, it's the first choice for working with Google applications, like Google Workspace is the product we use the most, while the extensibility and manageability of Google Chrome when you have a browser that is enrolled and managed by your Google Workspace is fantastic as far as to restrict things and prevent people from loading any old random extension and whitelist and pre-install certain extensions for other people in your organization and also while being able to use them without having to get the tool themselves. It is a pretty direct, robust, and flexible solution. Also, the fact that Chrome is basically the commercially released public solution that resides on top of Chromium, which is used for a lot of other things as well. S, it means you've got a lot of great interoperability capabilities, and a lot of people's eyeballs are looking at the functionality and security of this product.

The solution has so many features that it's hard to pick out just a couple. Again, I think having a user signed into their Google Workspace account and having the browser enrolled, then those functions can be managed through our Google admin console. Also, it is fantastic from a fleet management and user support aspect. The breadth and capability of the various extensions and plug-ins that are out there for Chrome to do additional things on top of just working in the browser are fantastic. At the end of the day, it is a browser that a lot of people seem to prefer considering that in our organization, we don't force people to use Chrome. We tell them that it's the browsers that we officially support, so if something doesn't work in a different browser, we ask them to try to do the same thing in Chrome. From over five hundred users, I have less than ten percent that seem to be using anything other than Chrome on a regular basis.

Speaking about improvements needed in the solution, I would say that their security is great overall. I wish there was a way that they could update things a little less often if anything. I think a lot of enterprise customers are frustrated with the browser providers and a lot of web 2.0 technology providers in this internet era where there's a lot of thinking because of the developments going on, where every six weeks, you're going to have a sprint before releasing new features, etcetera. So, we want new releases on a quarterly basis. We want it once a year. Otherwise, too many features are introduced too quickly. Honestly, other than that, there was something else I was going to say. So, a big concern is coming with the way that they're changing the way that Chrome interacts with extensions and plug-ins in the next two generations. Certain plug-ins like ad blockers will lose some functionality in the next quarter to half a year. And while that ad blocker is not something that I use, I know some people use it to deal with junky ads, etcetera. So there's a lot of concern that Google's not listening to the community on that one because folks have said they don't want that functionality to change. And I think Google's perspective is that making this change allows them to better secure their browser. But, I think it's really something that should depend on the preference of the users. If I can take that little bit of risk of vulnerability, it means I'm not having every ad pop up in front of me.

I have supported Google Chrome Enterprise for thirteen to fourteen years. It's pretty hard not to use the latest version of the tool. I am a customer of the solution.

The solution is pretty stable for me, and I know there are some who have issues with it occasionally, but I'm going to give it a ten out of ten for stability too.

The solution is highly scalable, and it's gotten so much better over the years. There were issues back when it first came out that prevented us from doing a lot of things or things we could only do to configure a file from the endpoint. Now I feel like almost every aspect of the browser can be remotely managed if needed. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I hope I don't have to contact the support team because if you want, it's not easy. When I was at Chicago Public Schools, we had issues, and we would be able to reach out to Google support because of the level of contract and level of commitments that we had, but that was, again, hundreds of thousands of users and that we were very high at that time when they were doing a big education push with Chromebooks, etcetera, so they really wanted to be able to get our feedback and to help us with our use cases and solution. But nowadays, I feel like if we have an issue, we just have to sit around and hope that a lot of other people have that same issue, which will get passed in the next version of Chrome.

The installation process is super easy. So, you install it, and then it updates itself, especially if you've got an old version that you had installed somehow previously. So, there are a number of enterprise settings available. Suppose you need to customize the way that it launches the first time or the way it does certain things. In that case, you can customize many, many aspects of the browser, either in stand-alone or packages that you're deploying to your endpoints or via that Google Workspace admin console where you've got your browser enrolled since there's a configuration deployed with it to automatically enroll your browser in your enterprise endpoint. And then, all those settings you want just get delivered from Google Workspace. So, that's fantastic.

They're the king of the market. So, they do improve it all the time. I would like to see everyone not just using Chrome or a Chromium browser. Either Microsoft is using the same engine as Google now, and that's good as far as compatibility, but not necessarily great as far as having things on the web being done in a way that is generic and useful to any given web browser, whether it's using Chrome as its underlying engine or the Chromium base, or whether it's completely separate. I rate the overall solution a seven and a half out of ten.

I use the solution in my company as a browser.

The solution's most valuable feature is its browser, which offers good performance. It doesn't crash as much as it used to happen in the past.

The tool is not very user-friendly. All Google products can be improved from a UX perspective. The UX is not great in Google Chrome Enterprises compared to other tools from Microsoft, Slack, and other such platforms.

I have been using Google Chrome Enterprise for two years. My company has a partnership with Google.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The tool's scalability is good. There are no problems at all on the scalability front. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Around 3000 people in my company use the product.

My company gets support from Google's resellers. If I try to get direct support from Google, it takes time. With Google's resellers also I don't get instantaneous support and there is a delay of 48 to 72 hours. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

The product's initial setup phase is very easy. The configuration part can be a bit tough. There are a few areas where, even if someone follows the tool's user manuals, the solution doesn't work.

The product price is very good in my opinion. The resellers of Google products are much more responsive than Microsoft.

My company has a product servicing team of 12 people, consisting of network engineers who call themselves network support, and the other teams in my company refer to them as the setup servicing team. Though not all of them manage Google, some of them do it when required.

In terms of the manageability benefits offered by the product to my company's team, I would say that there was not much of a learning curve involved when we migrated from Microsoft to Google around two years ago, and it was pretty easy to integrate.

I have not utilized Google Chrome's flexibility for remote work.

The solution has some good points in terms of scalability and ease of use. However, my company doesn't like the UX component of the product, and it is also one of the reasons why we miss Microsoft Teams.

I can recommend the product to others after considering their needs. If a user has more money to invest, they should choose Microsoft.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.