Applications that can keep users happy Chrome to keep your home office for maximum productivity? No, I do not see my previous column, in which I asked if there was not the hardware Chrome is sufficient for carriers and enterprises at home Tele. The current column is the second in my series of four biweekly parties in office suites with the release of Microsoft Office 365. This week's focus on Google Suite G, otherwise good office aspects.
While Microsoft free versions of Office Online Word, Excel and PowerPoint, its members also offers the traditional range (ie installed on your laptop or desktop) in 2016 Office programs with encyclopedic lists of features let browser-based cousins.
Google G Suite but what is online, what you get: A compact and effective application installed in your browser (preferably Chrome), download with anything that is available on your computer, tablet or wherever you telephone access to the Web. Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing modules works offline (if you are, for example, in an airplane without Wi-Fi), although it is gibberish to do is configured.
As expected, makes its online accessibility Google G After a choice of productivity "lite". It is an illustration of the software version of the 80/20 rule (80 percent of users are never more than 20 percent of the functions need to ask historians in the ancient works against Microsoft Microsoft Office). Word processing, for example, is just that: a word processor instead of a page layout program that supports multiple columns caps, fall, and good (although it provides a balanced and bibliographies Add- proposals). But if your work is based on the rapid and specific rather than sophisticated document formats, you can be pleasantly surprised by the functionality of Google G Suite.
From zero to $ 10 per month
greater marketing challenge of Google G Suite is the word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and components, called Docs, Sheets and films, which are respectively used by millions of people who do not spend a penny for them. Google to open an account with a Gmail address, and free access to Google Suite G, with 15GB of storage on Google Drive cloud, get photos and other files for e-mails. This is not as small as it sounds, do not count as document files, spreadsheets and slides.
So if your budget is zero, Google is to provide online productivity available to Microsoft Trio; an email with calendar, tasks and contacts; and some cloud storage. If Google pull some money, but keep things interesting. Google G-Suite costs $ 10 per user and month. In other words, one year $ 120, if you are a sole trader (and two or three times more than if a co-worker or two).
In turn, 1 TB storage capacity, or if five or more receive an unlimited online storage users in your organization. Plus you get business e - mail, without as with addresses advertising yourname@yourdomain.com instead of allthegoodnamesaretaken@gmail.com.
You also get the promise of a 99.9 percent uptime of Google; Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook (which is still nicknamed Google Apps carries) text chats, voice and high-definition video with up to 25 people via Google Hangout; and administrative and security for the unit and E-mail options are not in the free versions. (I think it is not necessary to maintain and looking messaging accounts and chat to the users in case of dispute, but big business as you are things.)
In short, $ 120 per year sounds like a bad deal compared to Microsoft Office 365 Home, the online applications with Office 2016 installations on up to five PCs or Macs, tablets and five combined five phones. However Technically Google Suite G is unable to compete with this package, but with Office 365 Business Premium, electronics and HD video conferencing for $ 12.50 per user per month, for a year corresponds with Google $ 30 terminates in place as less of $ 20 expensive.
The right size or underpowered?
But it is fair to Google Office Online Suite G compare to bring compared to 2016 from his position as a gun to a gunfight. Here is more Microsoft PC almost all functions, to have someone who might need designed; After Google's online is designed so that most people use to have functions every day.
Leaves, for example, a table can with many built-in functions, data functions, including filtered views and dynamic tables and table types 28 bar and cake candles, radar and map (and won my heart with a dialog box reading, "Heads Up! Sure you do the tide remove?").
But you will see in the graphic imagination Sunburst and vain forecast in Excel, or even add things like a title to a table. And while there, most supplements are a large handful of add-ons available, such as Google Analytics reports and project timelines are with Gantt charts things like class notebooks.
The slides may be the simplest and the most prominent application suite Google G. You are the bare bones "Add Title Click to add text" welcomes master slides, you can jazz enumerations application, text boxes and images.
You can color themes and font-20-odd, each with a dozen slide layouts (section title header and two columns, etc.), with half a dozen transitions 15 slides and animations choose the sliders. Few, unfortunately are so catchy and none is as intuitive as their counterparts in PowerPoint.
but Docs seems like a normal white screen with a series of drop-down menus and the toolbar, but is a little word processing, paragraph styles, tables support, the text wrap comments to graphics and mathematical equations and even a search warrant online information about the selected items (such as smart desktop search) to obtain.
As with other Google applications Suite G, Docs, it's easy to publish your work on the Internet and invite colleagues even work some of the processing of cases (for example, two people the same section at a time, edit) and not the word , To download a copy of the cloud, Google G Suite supports the export of Office files and PDF. If you want a download, have later import a competent job otherwise perfect Office files graphically.
There is much to say about Google G Suite, especially if you use either the free version or the use of messaging and business conference of the paid version (Also Google+ as a social intranet, can use quasi-Bremse in your company, but it is not officially a central component of the suite). When comparing the almighty Office 365 as a parable of Stephen King is flying, comparing a flashlight to a lighthouse. What do you prefer in the stormy seas of modern business?
Prior - who have tried Google - Suite G, Office Online or other result based on the browser? Before - the impressed or cooled? Let - let me know in the comments or homeoffice.eric@gmail.com.