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Egnyte vs Google Drive Enterprise comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Egnyte
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Drive Enterprise
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Egnyte is 6.2%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Drive Enterprise is 3.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
A great solution for uploading files with good protection and security features
We use this solution to upload our files according to our activities for the project. All the files we create are uploaded or saved on Egnyte Connect to protect and securitize them Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files. All files are secure and available. If we are connected, we can…
RuiLopes - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful to share files and offers good space and availability
As the product is available on the cloud, it is always available. The tool also offers users the ability to share documents with other people. The product's ability to relate to team collaboration consists of a wide range of areas. For our professional contacts, my company uses Microsoft Teams since it is one of the most common tools. I don't have any special recommendations related to the product since it is a straightforward solution. My company does not use the product's integration capabilities. In terms of the protection features, it seems like the tool has some safeguards in place if you want to use it like MFA or features to secure communications. I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It is scalable and stable."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"It is a good storage solution."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing with partners."
"I can store data and share it with people."
"It is very convenient and easy to access."
"Google Drive Enterprise is a good product, and it is easy to use."
"Google autosaves your work, which means you won't lose things."
"It is a stable solution, and I have never faced any issues with the product...It is a scalable solution since one can get as much as one needs from the product."
"The stability of Google Drive Enterprise is good."
"Simplicity while competently serving the needs of secure document storage and sharing is part of the beauty of the product."
 

Cons

"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"There are a few kinks to work out at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple and extremely useful."
"The price of additional storage could be reduced. I have an annual subscription and I'm only using 150GB because of the price."
"I would like better security because I use Google Drive to store some personal documents, It would be nice if I could password protect some files."
"The conversion of Microsoft Office documents into Google documents could be improved."
"The solution could improve User Access Management by showing more detailed information of which users have access to folders or files. For example, you can see which users have access one by one, but there is not a dashboard that can show what user has access to a library document."
"It would be ideal if they could offer more GBs for free. Offering 15GBs is too small."
"Security-wise, Google Drive Enterprise needs improvement. Compared to its competitor: Kiteworks, Google Drive Enterprise is less secure."
"It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"Google Drive's price is lower than competitors. I have two accounts, including one with Apple that I use to manage some pictures and contact. I use Apple Cloud for only this purpose. I use Google Drive for everything else. Compared to Google, the price of Dropbox is high and the solution isn't good."
"That would be ideal if it were as cheap as possible."
"I use the free version."
"The product is available for free."
"I am using the free version."
"Google is much cheaper than Microsoft."
"There is a monthly fee that we pay for the use of this solution and the price is fair."
"The product is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
45%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
10%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Google Drive Enterprise?
With Google Drive Enterprise, multiple people can edit a document, and you can open it as Google Docs.
What needs improvement with Google Drive Enterprise?
The search function in Google Drive Enterprise could be improved as it currently requires looking through many documents to find the right one. I am not aware of the security level it provides, and...
 

Comparisons

 

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Drive Enterprise, Google Drive
 

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Sample Customers

M&C Saatchi, FMC Technologies, Learfield Communications Inc., Aerohive Networks, Devcon, Semperian, Balfour Beatty Construction, Red Bull
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