Facts about Usage and Adoption\nof Google Office Apps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
1. 89% of the\nusers who have used G Suite for more than two years are satisfied with them: <\/strong>Keeping users happy is the cornerstone for any business offering\nservices for use. Google has always managed to keep customer satisfaction high,\nand its slew of productivity apps is no different. A survey of business\nadministrators overseeing cloud storage for their company led to an insight\ninto the thoughts of these admins. 89% of these admins, who have been using G\nSuite for more than two years, claim to be satisfied with the Apps. Out of\nthese, at least 38% claimed to be extremely satisfied with Google\u2019s tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Cloud Technology Alliance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Nearly\nhalf of all G Suite admins use third-party apps to aid in the complete adoption\nof the apps: <\/strong>Third-party application integration is\nan important aspect of any suite of productivity tools. This is no different\nfor G Suite. These apps have seamless integration with many forms of email services\nand cloud services, which help its users to transition their data from any\nportal or physical media to G Suite smoothly. 49% of all the surveyed admins\nstated that this seamless integration between various third party applications\nis what led them to choose G Suite. They continue using these apps to aid in\ncompletely transitioning to using G Suite for all purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Cloud Technology Alliance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Nearly\nthree out of five of all admins claim that G Suite is integral to their\nbusiness: <\/strong>Collaboration is at the heart of the\nsuccess of any business. Adding to this fact is that G Suite of Apps is free\nuntil a certain limit, we can see that G Suite are integral to most businesses.\nThis fact was reflected in the study, wherein almost 60% of all the cloud\nservice admins claim that the G Suite is very integral to their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Go Skills)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. 62% of all\nprofessional G Suite users are willing to purchase applications to optimize\ntheir business: <\/strong>As discussed right now, G Suite is\nwidely considered to be absolutely integral to a lot of business. Due to this\nwide popularity, as many as 62% of all the users are willing to upgrade their\nfree G suit by purchasing applications. This brings in a large amount of\nrevenue for Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Go Skills)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. 78% of all\ncollege students use G Suite for work that requires collaboration: <\/strong>College students are among the most prolific users of productivity\napplications, using them for projects, papers, and even submissions of excel\nsheets. When the top 150 universities around the country of the USA were\ninterviewed, 78% of them stated that they use G Suite for any project that\nrequires them to collaborate with their team members. However, the report also\nrevealed that only 12% of them used G Suite for their solo projects, preferring\nMicrosoft Office tools for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Creative Strategies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. 5 million\nbusinesses use G Suite to collaborate: <\/strong>G Suiteis\ndesigned with business collaboration in mind. This is evident in its usage\nstatistics. According to a report by Google, as many as five million businesses\ncurrently utilize G Suite exclusively for their productivity-related tasks.\nThis is mainly due to the large variety of collaboration tools that the suite\nprovides to business. G Suite is also free for small businesses and is priced\nmuch lower than its primary competitor, Microsoft 365. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. On\naverage, nearly 31% of the companies in the top industries in the world use G\nSuite as their productivity-related services: <\/strong>The\ntop 11 industries of the world rely heavily on collaboration and ease of\ndocument creation to be successful. For this purpose, they often turn to either\nG Suite or Microsoft 365. In a survey of the publicly traded companies in these\nindustries, it was revealed that 31% of these companies used Google\u2019s suite of\napps for all of their productivity-related tasks. On average, 21% of the\ncompanies stated that they were using both Google and Microsoft apps, and the\nrest claimed that they exclusively used Microsoft for their tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Cloud Technology Alliance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. G Suite\nearned over $1.3 billion in 2016: <\/strong>As discussed, G\nSuite is very popular amongst businesses, and a lot of the free users express a\ndesire to purchase the premium plans to upgrade their experience. This is the\nmajor source of revenue for G Suite and has already made the service cash\npositive. According to Google\u2019s publicly released documents, G Suite earned\nover $1.5 Billion in 2017. Considering the fact that the current interaction of\nthe applications has only been available for purchase for just seven years, compared\nto Microsoft\u2019s decades-long legacy, it is a very impressive feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Reuters)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Around 50%\nof all Fortune 500 companies use G Suite: <\/strong>To achieve\na place in the Fortune 500 is the dream for most companies in the world. To do\nso, they need to be focused on efficiency and useful collaboration. For this\npurpose, nearly half of the Fortune 500 group use G Suite. This large degree of\nadoption is a testament to how important G Suite has become to the corporate\nenvironment. As the sales of the Jamboard and Google Cloud continues to rise,\nGoogle estimates that soon as many as 80% of the Fortune 500 group will be\nusing their services for productivity-related tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. G Suite\nuses Machine Learning to optimize its user\u2019s experience: <\/strong>Google has been leading the market when it comes to machine learning-based\nproducts. They have been sinking a lot of resources into the area and have\nalready applied machine learning algorithms to a whole slew of their products.\nRecently machine learning has also been applied to the G Suite applications. These\nMachine Learning features come under the \u2018Explore\u2019 tab for most of the\napplications. Some of the ways machine learning optimizes these applications\nfor its users are the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n a. Docs: <\/strong>Google Docs is a very versatile\nword processor and its research tab allows for users never to have to change\napplications to look up any topics about which the author might be writing.\nThis tab is helped along with the new explore tab. Under this tab, the machine\nlearning algorithm goes through the content you have written and suggest\nrelated topics that you can research as well. The explore tabs also gives\nsuggested images and videos that you can insert to aid your article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n b. Sheets: <\/strong>Sheets is a very powerful\nspreadsheet editor that can achieve a lot of the same things that Microsoft\u2019s\nvery powerful Excel can achieve. However, to actually be able to fully utilize\nthe power of Sheets, the user needs to know a whole host of formulas. This is\nwhere Sheets\u2019 explore tab comes in. A user can simply type a phrase in natural\nlanguage in the Explore tab\u2019s search bar, and the tab will convert it into the\nappropriate formula, ready for immediate use. For example, if a user wants to\ncompute the average cost of the garments they are compiling, they can just type\nin \u2018What is the average cost for all garments. This will both yield a detailed\nresult of the query, and it will also give the user the formula used so they\ncan apply it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n c. Calendar: <\/strong>Organizing meetings can be\nvery frustrating, especially as the size of the team grows larger. To figure\nout a time that works for everyone and also figure out a location that would be\nfree and easy to access for everyone if the company has a large campus. All\nthese problems are simplified by using the Google Calendar. The calendar takes\nadvantage of machine learning to help out teams to plan meetings easily. It\ncompares everyone\u2019s schedules and is capable of suggesting slots of times in\nwhich a meeting can be held. The calendar also compares meetings all around the\ncompany in the same time slot, as well as taking into account everyone\u2019s\nschedule to see where their other meetings will be, to suggest the best room\nfor the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n d. Drive: <\/strong>According to a study by\nXenit, <\/strong>workers can spend more than one day in a workweek looking for\ninformation to do their work. This alone can hit the productively hard. To\nprevent this, Google Storage tracks the files that one accesses and the times\nwhen they are being accessed. So, when an individual schedules a meeting every\nthree days and accesses a particular group of files before every one of them,\nStorage realizes this. Then the next time when the meeting is scheduled, these\nparticular files will appear at the top of the screen. This saves employees a\nlot of time by not being bogged down with unimportant files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quick access learns how you use your\ndocuments and puts them in the quick access bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n e. Slides: <\/strong>Visual presentations are an\nintegral part of any organization. Almost every meeting is basically run using\npresentations alone. So, having a powerful presentation creation tool at one\u2019s\ndisposal is a necessity in the corporate world. Slides is such a tool. It’s\nExplore Tab allows users to preview a set of templates and formats, allowing\nany user, no matter their skill level, to create an amazing presentation. Slides\nalso remembers the templates and styles that a user likes, and then suggests\nthem more often. This makes it the go-to option for a large number of office\nworkers and is slowly becoming the most famous G Suite app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0(Source: Google)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. The G\nSuite is not only software! G Suite has a hardware component known as the\nJamboard: <\/strong>When one thinks of the G Suite, the\nthought of applications that boost one\u2019s performance. However, the G Suite also\nhas a hardware component. This is in the form of the Jamboard, which is\nGoogle\u2019s version of the whiteboard. This is a 55\u201d 4K touchscreen monitor. This\nboard allows users to create \u2018Jamming sessions.\u2019 These sessions can be attended\nby anyone using the Jam application on their phones. Here any user can use the\nJamboard to create with like a traditional whiteboard, except they can access\nyour Google account and can use any documents and files therein. These Jamboard\ncan be moved easily using its stand or mounted directly on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing is perfect, not even Google\u2019s G Suite. The G Suite is based on a currently evolving and developing technology, namely Cloud Computing and Machine Learning. This can cause a lot of issues, from security concerns to loss of business due to service unavailability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we explore some of the biggest\ncomplains and concerns about G Suite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. 83% of G\nSuite users report not being able to access their files online due to the apps\nnot loading: <\/strong>A large number of users will\ninevitably lead to server issues. These issues can prevent users from accessing\ntheir documents for a brief period of time. However, for a corporation to not\nhave access to any documents for any period of time, however brief, can be a\nvery undesirable situation. Due to this, the biggest complaint with G Suite is\nthe fact that sometimes the apps don’t actually load. This complaint is made by\nroughly four out of five users, which obviously can\u2019t be ignored. The second\nmajor problem that users face is the fact that files don’t always sync across\ndevices immediately. This can cause a huge delay in work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Down Detector)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Security\nconcerns are the main reason why organizations don\u2019t want to adopt G Suite: <\/strong>Security and privacy are some of the most important things for any\nindividual or organization. These are also the major concerns associated with\ncloud computing in general. In the past few years, there have been a lot of\ndata breaches and hacking of the various cloud-based platforms. Just recently,\n4.1 billion records of private were exposed to hackers in just the first half\nof 2019, among which were records from G Suite. With this leak, a lot of\norganizations that were looking to adopt G Suite were turned off from the\nplatform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Forbes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Google\nhas been accused of deliberately not allowing G Suite to sync correctly with\nexternal applications: <\/strong>G Suite offers a lot of\napplications for a variety of purposes. A whole host of other applications are\nalso trying to serve these purposes. This is the nature of all industries,\nwhere there is a service to be provided, there will be a lot of applications\nvying for attention. However, considering how ubiquitous G Suite has become\namong corporate architecture, it might be very difficult to adopt any third-party\napplication. This difficulty is expounded by the fact that Google has been\naccused of deliberately sabotaging third-party integration when it competes\ndirectly with its own services. For example, if a company uses Google Calendar\nto plan their meetings, an individual using a third-party calendar that isn\u2019t\nallowed to sync properly will end up missing updates related to meeting\nschedules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Business Insider)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A productivity\napplication lives and dies on the number of unique features it provides to its\nusers. These features can be anything from basic things like fonts to advanced\nmacro creating abilities. Google Docs has a whole host of unique features that\nit provides to its users. Here we explore some of the lesser-known but highly\nuseful features that are available with Google\u2019s suite of office tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. Ignoring\nformatting of source text when copying and pasting into a document: <\/strong>Every once in a while, someone needs to copy and paste some text\ninto their documents. There is a very handy shortcut that one can use to\nachieve this is CTRL + Shift + V. <\/strong>This shortcut pastes the copied text\ninto the document without the source formatting. This makes it very easy to\nedit and combine various articles into a cohesive whole. This shortcut removes\nlists, fonts, modifiers, and even hyperlinks. It simply copies the document\u2019s\nformat that the user has set themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. Easily\nmoving paragraphs around the document: <\/strong>Editing is\none of the most important things for the creation of a document. Making sure\nthat every section of the article is where it needs to make a huge difference\nto the readability of a document. Moving entire paragraphs or groups of texts\naround a document can be challenging when just selecting and moving with your\nmouse. Everyone is used to their text just getting completely scrambled around\nwhen using a mouse to restructure a document. Google Docs provides a simple\nshortcut to get around this issue. Simple selecting the text and pressing ALT\n+ Shift + Arrow Keys <\/strong>will allow a user to move their text around easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. Adding\nextra and custom fonts to any document: <\/strong>As the wise\nphilosopher Socrates used to say, \u2018Never be caught using Comic Sans in an\nofficial document.\u2019 Everyone has encountered a situation wherein they are\nconfused about which font to use for what purpose. This problem can be\nexasperated by a limited number of fonts that the user can access. Google Docs\nprovides a solution to this issue by providing the capability for a user to add\nany fonts that they want. All a user needs to do is to go to the drop-down font\nmenu and click add fonts. There is a whole library of readily available fonts\nthat a user can add simply from this menu itself. However, this menu also lets\na user add their own custom fonts or any other font they find anywhere online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Remove\nall formatting from any section of the text: <\/strong>Difference\nin formatting, no matter how subtle, can be very jarring. Especially if a\ndocument is being worked on by multiple people, it can cause a small formatting\nmismatch. When editing, these mistakes are picked up. Normally one would have\nto manually change the formatting to match each other. However, Google Docs has\na feature called \u2018Clear Formatting,\u2019 which can easily remove all formatting\nfrom the selected text. This changes all the formatting in the selected text to\nmatch the rest of the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. Conduct\nall research in the office tools themselves.: <\/strong>One\nof the most important elements of writing a well-researched article is, well,\nresearch. It can get very frustrating having to navigate between multiple\nwindows and tabs to research and then coming back to the office tool to type up\nthe information. Google Docs removes this frustration by allowing users to\nconduct their research in the word processor itself. By simply navigating to\nthe research tab, users can make use of Google\u2019s search bar to look up a topic\nthey need. Users can also select a section of the text and then press the\nresearch tab to google the selected text itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Write and\nedit documents directly without affecting the document permanently using the\nsuggest changes: <\/strong>One of the biggest draws ofGoogle\nDocs is the collaborative features that allow multiple participants to work on\na particular file. This collaboration allows for a better final product. One of\nthe main features that allow this collaboration is the Suggest Changes <\/strong>feature.\nThis allows the users to write a section of the article in a different format,\nwhich gets marked as a suggestion. This lets the collaborators read the\nsuggestions as a part of the article itself. This small fact, letting\nsuggestions be a part of the article, allows for a very smooth collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. Cal\nattention to one particular collaborator by tagging people in the document: <\/strong>Tagging people is usually associated with Instagram and is not\nexactly a phrase that one connects to a productivity tool. Google Docs is\ntrying to change this perception by allowing people to tag people in the\ndocument. This notifies the person getting tagged, getting an email\nnotification to check the document in question. They can then open the document\nstraight from the email itself. All one needs to do is to press \u2018@\u2019 and then\ntype the name of the person that they want to tag. This only works if the\nperson is already in the user\u2019s Gmail contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 22. Check the\nhistory of changes made to any document by all collaborators: <\/strong>When multiple people collaborate on a project, it is very helpful to\nhave a handy to tell what changes were made by whom. Docs allow users to do\njust that. It has a section attached to each document called the \u2018Revision\nHistory.\u2019 Here any user can go through all the changes that have been made to\nthe document since its inception. This section stores all the changes in the\nform of \u201csessions.\u201d These are marked as all the changes made to a document in a\nsingle session by any user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 23. Utilizing\nvoice typing to write documents easily: <\/strong>Google has\na whole host of tools built into their Docs service that helps users create\ndocuments very easily. One of these tools is the proprietary google\ntranscribing algorithm being built into the Docs architecture. This allows users\nto utilize their computer\u2019s microphone to type whatever desire. Google\u2019s\ntranscribing algorithm has long since being hailed as being one of the most\naccurate ones on the market, and the integration with Docs is sleek and\nseamless. The way to use it is simple, as well. The user has to navigate to tools>voice\ntyping.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 24. Create\ncustom shortcuts to aid each user uniquely: <\/strong>When\nwas the last time you made the text bold using the button in the toolbar and\nnot the CTRL + B shortcut? Possibly not since you learned about the shortcut.\nShortcuts make life easier for any user by allowing them to make the changes\nthey desire quickly. Google Docs allows users to create their own shortcuts for\nany purpose. These shortcuts can be very versatile. They can range from being\nbasic macros to allowing users to edit entire documents instantly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25. A\ndictionary that is constantly updated: <\/strong>No-one can\nclaim to know every single word that exists in the English language. For the\ntimes that the perfect word might elude you, Google Docs is ready for the save\nwith a constantly updating online dictionary. This dictionary is based on the\nOxford Dictionary and gets updated alongside it. This gives the users a very\npowerful tool to aid in creating the perfect article. The dictionary also has a\nvery versatile thesaurus, which can provide accurate synonyms for any\nsituation. The dictionary can be found by simply right-clicking and selecting\n\u2018define.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26. An extremely\nversatile script editor: <\/strong>Coding is a very important\nskill to have the current tech-obsessed world. It can open doors that you never\neven thought existed. For example, did you know that you can write a simple\nprogram to make docs make a list of all the hyperlinks used in your document?\nMakes compiling sources that much easier, doesn\u2019t it? All of this is possible\nthrough Google Docs extremely powerful script editor. It used the Virtual Basic\nLanguage, which itself is based upon the C++ language. However, this tool can\nprovide a near-infinite amount of services to the user, only limited by their\nimagination and coding prowess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (Source: Google Docs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google may have started off as a simple web search application but has grown to become a provider of a huge array of tools…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nComplains about G Suite<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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