If Microsoft Office 365 bundles popular office software like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single application, Google does the same. G Suite is a collection of applications related to email, cloud storage, data processing, etc. Let's explore the benefits that G Suite offers in the article below with Mytour!
Understanding G Suite
1. What is G Suite?
G Suite is Google's comprehensive suite of applications, including utilities like Gmail, Office suite, Google Drive, Calendar, Hangouts... It is developed on the Google Cloud Computing platform and specially designed to meet the communication and collaboration needs of businesses. Users can simply understand G Suite as Online Microsoft Office.
G Suite, formerly known as Google Apps for Work or Google Apps for Business, has attracted over 5 million organizations worldwide for email, chat, video calling, scheduling, and data sharing. Notably, 60% of Fortune 500 companies use G Suite.
2. Features of G Suite
Google's G Suite offers a variety of services and applications, improving work efficiency and collaboration. These applications include:
- Gmail:
- Google Calendar: An online calendar service that helps users view and organize personal schedules, as well as share calendars with colleagues. Integrated with Gmail to easily create meetings or events.
- Google Docs: An online office suite that allows real-time collaboration and editing of documents, spreadsheets. Helps reduce duplication of work and increase work productivity.
- Google Drive: A cloud storage service that enables users to access and synchronize files from any device.
- Google Hangouts: Allows organizing online video meetings with colleagues or clients from anywhere. Integrated with other Google apps for efficient collaboration.
- Google Sites: Facilitates creating and managing internal websites for businesses. Employees can easily share information and documents.
- Google Vault: Provides continuous storage, e-discovery, and information management capabilities to protect business data. Users can easily search content and emails.
3. Cost for G Suite
G Suite services have a cost starting from $2.5/month (approximately 60,462.50 Vietnamese Dong). For small and medium-sized businesses, the cost usually ranges from $30 to below $1,000/year.
4. Benefits of G Suite
G Suite distinguishes itself from other free Google apps by providing more professional features and services tailored for businesses. G Suite supplements features such as calendar sharing, unlimited cloud storage, mobile device management, and custom email addresses for the business domain. These features help businesses manage information and internal interactions more efficiently and securely.
Regular Google accounts typically use '@gmail.com'. When registering for G Suite, user email addresses will contain the business domain and take the form 'username@your_domain.com.' This helps create a professional impression and brand identity for the business.
G Suite brings many tangible benefits to various user groups. Below are the key benefits of G Suite for users and businesses:
Benefits for users:
Benefits for businesses:
In addition, G Suite also features displaying who has viewed your files to understand information about the accounts accessing the files you've sent.
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