Google Workspace vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

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Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Google is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while Microsoft is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4. Google holds a 6.9% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Google Workspace and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server compete in the collaborative and productivity software category. Google Workspace seems to have the upper hand due to its scalability and affordability, making it appealing for diverse business sizes according to user feedback.

Features: Google Workspace offers scalability and seamless integration with mobile devices and Outlook, complemented by valuable collaboration features in Gmail and Drive. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server specializes in comprehensive document management and tight integration with Office apps, providing enterprises with structured workflows and access management.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace users report challenges with frequent account logouts, slow email loading, and limited traditional email client integration. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server faces issues with cumbersome workflow setup and integration difficulties with non-Microsoft applications, alongside calls for enhanced search functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace is noted for quick deployment on public cloud but can suffer from inconsistent technical support. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server offers flexible deployment options, adding data control but increasing complexity. Microsoft's support ecosystem may be perceived as familiar but sometimes less responsive.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace is seen as cost-effective with various pricing tiers offering good ROI through productivity enhancements, though scaling costs may impact. SharePoint Server presents variable pricing, with significant differences between on-premises and cloud models, promising high ROI but potential server and database costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

106

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (1st), Cloud Storage (8th)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

6th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Workspace is 6.9%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 3.6%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Google Workspace	6.9%
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server	3.6%
Other	89.5%

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Hikmah Hikmah

Brand Protection Analyst at Corsearch

Collaborative tools have improved team communication and file organization across projects

Before I was in a Microsoft environment, which had its own software that was not website-based. When I moved to Google Workspace, it was not seamless because I have to access it through a web view in the browser. Most of it does not have stable connection because it is based on web view. It would be great if Google Workspace had its own application built into the PC or a desktop application. The operation is a bit different from Microsoft, which makes it difficult for me. For example, with Microsoft, we could easily access the shared mailbox with one URL and have access to it. With Google Workspace, we have to set it up by ourselves inside our own mailbox, which is a bit difficult because of how it operates differently. I think it can be improved more. Currently, guidelines are just in the form of a document that we can read by ourselves. It would be really helpful if the guidelines themselves were built into the environment itself. Since Google Workspace is in web view, maybe that would be possible. That would be more helpful than just reading a document.

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Tom Runar Lauritzen

Enterprise Architect at Veidekke

Creating internal architecture content has become smoother but embedding linked diagrams still needs work

I'm not currently working with IBM, IBM Controller, or other IBM tools. I still do a little bit of work with my previous company, but it's very minor. I don't work with any software or solutions outside of personal productivity suites such as Microsoft Office and things of that nature. I use Microsoft suite, Exchange, Teams, and so on. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is more accessible for the average user, but it lacks certain features that more advanced users would look for, making it seem unnecessarily complicated to do simple things or things one expects to be simple. I'm not directly involved in pricing and licensing, but I work closely with people who are, and my company has a third party to help manage licensing. I don't have the impression that Microsoft is regarded as particularly expensive. The product was licensed directly from Microsoft. I would give Microsoft Office SharePoint Server a rating of seven points on a scale from zero to ten, where ten is the best.

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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 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 speed and response time are the most valuable aspects of the solution; it's always quick and available, and I don't think there's ever been a time when it's been unreliable."

"Valuable features of the solution are that it's simple and effective."

"Only a few competitors can do precisely what Google Workspace does in terms of email management and calendar management through its Gmail and Google Calendar apps. It's a very seamless platform."

"The tool helps me keep a backup of old emails. Like everyone else, I love the Google search engine for searching emails on webmail. The Google Workspace connector for Outlook works well, so I have no issues with that."

"The solution is very stable."

"It is quite a useful tool. It allows many people to work on a document. You can actually provide review comments and tag anybody to make the comment changes. You can also attach a document in Google Chat."

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"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."

"Microsoft has a very good product."

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

"Enhanced user access management features fully integrated with Active Directory allowed us to gain the trust of the users and they use SharePoint to store and share all company digital content created by them."

"Using these features together, we converted our paper work to electronic digital data."

"The integration with security tools in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is one of the significant pluses since it alerts the IT team if anyone tries to redirect an email, which is illegal for us."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast."

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Cons

"We would like to use something within Google Workspace for project management, but we didn't find it there."

"Their tool called Sheets is the counterpart to Excel but it doesn't have the same functionality that Excel would have. So usually if somebody needs to go back to Excel or Office, it's because of Excel."

"There seems to be a bit of vulnerability on some operating systems, specifically on the iPhone. There isn't as much control as if a person is using an Android. That's a bit of a concern."

"What needs improvement in Google Workspace is the Google Drive app, in particular, making the process of finding the shared and most used files and folders easier. The first time you get an invite to view a file or folder in Google Drive and you view that folder or file, it's pretty easy, but the next time you try to access it again, sometimes, it's a bit difficult to find what was shared with you. An additional feature I'd like to see in Google Workspace is the option to un-send messages in Gmail. Microsoft has a message recall feature, and this isn't available in Gmail, so it's the feature I'd like to be added to Gmail."

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

"The solution is not user-friendly and it doesn't integrate that well with Microsoft Office, which is one of the bigger business apps on the market, compared to Google Sheets and applications of that sort."

"Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult."

"There is some redundancy in the functionality between certain modules."

More Google Workspace cons

"With the complexity and performance, it's hard to work with."

"However, when I migrate, a tenant-to-tenant migration presents a challenge to move SharePoint files easily to another tenant because we are using a third-party tool for this migration."

"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."

"Making it more intuitive could help teams adopt it faster and use it more effectively by being more user-friendly."

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is more accessible for the average user, but it lacks certain features that more advanced users would look for, making it seem unnecessarily complicated to do simple things or things one expects to be simple."

"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."

"The document management features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are not very good compared to OneDrive."

"Microsoft's technical support could potentially improve as they are not easily accessible."

More Microsoft Office SharePoint Server cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"2,500 Rupees per month per user."

"The price of G Suite Enterprise is reasonable compared to HotSpot. I'm not going to say G Suite Enterprise is affordable. It's valuable, you find value in paying your gas bill or your electricity bill, because of what it allows you to do."

"There are benefits that can provide a competitive advantage, e.g., improved productivity (with appropriate training), increased collaboration (with correct use of tools), flexible working - work from home or remote locations, easy to scale - fast onboarding of new employees, and ability to add and remove licenses, as required."

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

"I rate Google Workspace's pricing five to six out of ten. We do not pay any extra costs."

"Pricing is something concerning. We find the solution very expensive."

"Traffic management tools may be required for larger setups and should be included in any pricing calculations."

"Licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	17

Questions from the Community

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

The company made the decision to migrate, so I'm not sure why specifically. The company is moving the data and the Microsoft subscription is no longer continued, so I have the choice to use Google ...

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

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What is your primary use case for Google Workspace?

I have been using Google Workspace for file organizing, including Google Drive, Spreadsheet, Gmail, and Google Form, with most of my usage being in Spreadsheet. I do use Google Groups, which combin...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

I am not aware of the pricing, so I cannot say if the solution is expensive or quite affordable.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

My expectation when I start using a Microsoft product is that it would be easy to incorporate diagrams and such from other Microsoft Office products. Incorporating a diagram I've embedded in a slid...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

I produce content about the work I'm doing inside the company, making information about IT architecture, work processes within IT architecture, and security reviews of applications or infrastructur...

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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

Google Workspace offers ease of use, integration, collaboration, and security, making it suitable for diverse teams and educational institutions. It supports email, document sharing, video meetings, and communication, ensuring productivity across devices.

Google Workspace enhances business operations through efficient email management, seamless integration, and robust cloud stability. With reliable tools like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Meet, organizations benefit from streamlined communications and document handling. Features like Calendar and MultiPass Fido Security keys boost security and productivity, while API compatibility and real-time collaboration allow for flexible team workflows. Despite its strengths, users suggest better Outlook integration, more advanced Google Meet features, enhanced Google Sheets functionality, and improved storage and sync capabilities. Concerns about cost, support, and Microsoft Office format compatibility exist, with calls for enhanced controls, contact sharing, and spam filtering.

What are the standout features?

Gmail: Efficient email management for streamlined communication.
Google Drive: Document sharing and cloud storage for easy accessibility.
Google Meet: Video capabilities that enhance virtual meetings.
Google Chat: Potential for effective team communication.
Security: Robust measures like MultiPass Fido Security keys ensure data protection.
API Compatibility: Allows for flexible integration with external tools.

What benefits do users find valuable?

Ease of Use: Intuitive interface supports quick adoption.
Real-Time Collaboration: Enables efficient teamwork anytime, anywhere.
Scalability: Efficiently grows with business needs.
Accessibility: Consistent experience across various devices for remote work.
Seamless Integration: Works smoothly with other business tools.

Google Workspace is widely adopted in businesses for efficient email communication, document creation, and cloud storage. It's popular for integrating with other business tools and handling enterprise data management. Many rely on its comprehensive communication tools and secure, device-spanning functionality.

Google

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server enhances collaboration, document management, and version control while integrating seamlessly with Office apps, Teams, and OneDrive for efficient communication and content sharing.

Offering automation, workflow management, and effective metadata usage, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server improves operational efficiency. It's user-friendly with low-code and no-code capabilities, ensuring accessibility for organizations. Robust security measures and access control with Active Directory integration provide secure data handling, while real-time editing allows multiple users to collaborate productively. Its search functionality streamlines information retrieval, although enhancing this feature could further improve usability. Addressing the need for a more intuitive interface, distinct integration between Team and SharePoint sites, workflow simplification, as well as improved performance with large data handling, would add to its practicality. Better third-party application integration, enhanced document sharing, and increased licensing flexibility are areas for potential development.

What are the key features?

Collaboration: Enables seamless team collaboration with integrated Office apps and Teams.
Document Management: Advanced version control and document sharing capabilities.
Automation: Streamlines processes with workflow management and metadata usage.
Security: Robust access control with Active Directory integration.
Real-Time Editing: Allows multiple users to edit documents simultaneously.
Search Functionality: Assists in swift information retrieval.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Improved Productivity: Real-time editing and seamless integration enhance work efficiency.
Security Assurance: Strong access control supports safe data management.
User Accessibility: Low-code and no-code features increase ease of use.
Operational Efficiency: Automates workflows and optimizes document handling.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is utilized in industries such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing for document sharing, collaboration, and internal communications. It supports project management, custom application development, and acts as an enterprise content management system. Organizations leverage its integration with Microsoft Teams for coordination and use it as a corporate portal. It facilitates data management, serves as a document library, and supports workflows with advanced capabilities like integration with Power Apps and Power BI for enhanced data visualization and interaction.

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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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