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 7.5, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Google holds a 7.1% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 3.5% 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 (9th)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Workspace is 7.1%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 3.5%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Google Workspace	7.1%
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server	3.5%
Other	89.4%

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AnnaRomagnuolo

Assosiate Professor at Palazzo del Mediterraneo

Collaborative work with students has improved but storage limitations and support issues remain

We have Google Workspace, and we use it primarily for Drive to collect items. We categorize folders with topics and material either for students or for research. We use Google Doc to share documents, especially when we assign homework to be corrected for peer correction or classroom correction. With Teams and Microsoft, we use it for collective calls and exam supervision because we use video surveillance through camera with Teams. We use Teams for meetings and to share material with students. The ability to share documents with students and assign them things and correct them in real time has been beneficial. You can verify what they write, and they can contribute and cooperate to create a collective document, which is something that our society nowadays requires. The ability to cooperate, especially those who work with languages and those who work with writing, need to learn how to cooperate. There is co-editing and co-writing, all these sorts of things. I love the fact that I can easily have access to folders that I can categorize and where I can upload research material and teaching material.

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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

"In terms of collaboration and simple ease of use, I think Google is good."

"The product is user-friendly and knows how to appeal to a user. Google Docs accepts some of our requirements. Its most valuable feature is performance. The product's integrations are good."

"Good search features, reliable storage, and quick thinking."

"Google integrates well with our system. G Suite has an open API, so you can connect any open system with Google capable of working with API. This is the main reason we use it."

"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."

"I like everything that Google does; they have good products, it's easy to use, the solution is stable, the scalability is good, it's smarter than I am, there are always more features that I need to explore, and I'm happy with its current integration capabilities."

"We find Google Drive and mail useful for our services."

"G Suite and all of Google were the first to have a built-in multifactor authentication without needing to purchase another product."

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"The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a main feature of Microsoft, and I use it for everything I share inside the organization and outside the organization; it's easy to use, easy to share, and easy to manage all SharePoint services."

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server helps with return on investment as it saves a lot of time and helps clients improve their processes."

"Essentially, it is the full suite of Office 365 with the advantage of using the SharePoint database as your list."

"The ability to work through a web browser without requiring installation on devices is particularly beneficial."

"I would recommend this product."

"The most valuable features for us are their document management list and hybrid forms. and We also use third party ad-dons to achieve workflows and other recent apps."

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

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

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Cons

"I believe Google Drive has potential for improvement. Enhancements could be made in terms of synchronization and the functionality of the Google Sheets app, particularly in areas like formulas and pivot tables, to make it more comparable to Microsoft Excel. Google Chat needs to make improvements so that we can send Excel and PDFs from the mobile app itself. I would like to see Google Bard integrated with the product."

"I talked with G Suite recently because my G Suite has a temporary block. I communicated with the G Suite representative or Google representative, and he told me that I sent a lot of emails, so my email was temporarily blocked. But I know I have not sent more than 500 emails daily to reach the limit. I sent only 5,200 emails, but unfortunately, my G Suite account was temporarily blocked for 24 hours, and then he resolved it. I think they need to improve G Suite because this temporary block is not fair."

"Customer Service: It's non-existent."

"With the Internet of Things, a platform that integrates well with others would be even better."

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

"Regarding the user interface, when calling a member in the organization, the UI can be challenging because the other person attending the call needs to enlarge the screen to listen properly."

"Some concerns over security, but there are moves to address this and provide admin tools to secure content and adhere to data protection regulations."

"With Microsoft, you can use it on the web version, and you can use Microsoft Outlook. Google has the web version."

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"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."

"I think that it can be improved in terms of security, to manage roles and better performance."

"Regarding the setup for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, I have to rate it lower, maybe a seven out of 10, as it is a little bit more complex and not so easy to use in some use cases."

"Searching information internally in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server could be better because when we get a lot of information, it is difficult to find."

"The Microsoft support is not great."

"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."

"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."

"Standard support without premier status is inadequate."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

"The price per client within the business is too high."

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

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

"We pay on yearly basis."

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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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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?

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 ...

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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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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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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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