Google Drive

Google drive is a very important tool to store data on the cloud and share data with others. It has a storage system and allows everyone to access it from anywhere with a help of the internet. It is easier to set up and users can get access to different services like Gmail, photos, YouTubes. Google doc has an online feature and saves any document automatically and can easily be shared with others. Important documents or any updates on companies' policies can easily be shared with team members by google doc. The editor can set the privacy of who can edit the documents or not. Moreover, google sheets also an important feature that gives us access to track down all the team members' attendance. To record and analyzes situation like if couriers or customers having an issue using the app or other concerns, we can gather the data and send it to the appropriate team to look into it.

There are plenty of places out there that offer online backups and file sharing. But Google Drive is by far the best solution I've used. First, your ability to share files is much more robust than DropBox and unlike Dropbox, it won't require the user to upgrade if you've chosen a bad sharing option. I've had clients use Dropbox, but it forced me to upgrade simply to gain access, where I have never had that happen with Google drive. Also, it offers a very convenient way to mount your drive so you can use it simply as a local drive. This is great as we put all of our client files on a drive, so they are shared across the service and sales organizations.

We at Dragonfly just use Google Drive for our transcriptions. We open a new document in the Drive, hit CTRL + Shift + S and start recording. You can also run a video at the same time and have it automatically transcribe that. It’s not perfect, and you need to make revisions following the transcription, but that goes for any transcription service. It’s totally free, which is a big plus, especially for a company such as ours that doesn’t do a lot of transcription.

Using google platform is always a good experience. Whit google drive you can create and share documents, presentations, data sheet easily. It is free to use you can collect feed backs and conduct test using google form which is there in the drive.

We've been using Google Drive for a few years for our daily backups and file sharing. It makes everything much easier to documents and share files between colleagues. I had a few issues regarding the available space, since it gives each user a certain amount, where I thought that the whole organization could share the same disk space, so I thought it was somewhat confusing at first. Besides, I think Google Drive is very useful to our organization.

During Covid-19 pandemic, accessing confidential files from home by using google drive.its safe from malware and other viruses. There is no issue of data loss due to hard disc issue.

At Business Waste Guru, we use Google Drive.

Pros: 

- Essentially free (Up to 15gb),

- Real time edits make for easy collaboration when writing documents or presentations

- Data is automatically stored on the cloud 

- Easy integration with Google Drive makes for simple and secure file-sharing. 

Cons:

- Unable to carry out complex tasks on docs and sheets.

- Can take some time to get used to the UI if coming from Microsoft Office.

Copper H2O is a 100% female run e-commerce social enterprise in the health and wellness industry. We started our business in 2015 and have several staff members who work remotely. We have experimented with several different staff monitoring systems over the years and believe that Google Drive works best. We find it optimal to have remote workers save all of their documents into Google Drive. This permits you to check in and view the documents so that you can check their progress and provide comments and feedback in real time.